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| So how do you react when you see something that is greater than yourself? Do you move in with full confidence in the Lord, or do you shrink back and let someone else do it? I feel we shrink back a lot and let someone else do it. But who is someone else? Sometimes when we wait for someone else it will never happen.
You could brush it off and say such is life? Or you can do something about it. I think Christ is looking and searching for those that are going to do something about it. II Timothy 2:11-13 - "Here is a trustworthy saying: If we died with him, we will also live with him; if we endure, we will also reign with him. If we disown him, he will also disown us; if we are faithless, he will remain faithful, for he cannot disown himself."
Christ has a job to do and he will do it with us or without us, although do not let someone else do it. Stand up today in your faith and fight the fight that is before you. Even though the task may be big and much bigger than yourself stand in full assurance of the one who will always remain faithful.
Continue to grow in Him, that He may be glorified and not you..... | | |
| So it has been sometime since my last post. Summer is around the corner and I hope all of you are excited about attending New Life Ranch for another amazing summer. If you aren't coming please pray that God would do some amazing things in the lives of our campers and our staff. Pray that his spirit would fill those there and that they would leave changed.
Now for a thought. As I was down fishing with my dad just about 5 minutes ago I was reminded of the passage that say's "We are to be fishers of men!" So how are you fishing? Are you catching anything? Are you working at it? Are you throwing out the right bait? Love, compassion, mercy, grace, etc. or are you throwing out hate, bitterness, or selfishness? We are to fish with different bait then the world does. So fish well and fish hard. God deserves our best as we fish for men and women in this world that need Him...
Blessings on you all as you search for Him in your life. Remember to grow in Him daily and walk as if walking towards him and not unto men... Blessings... | | |
| "Jesus took a towel and a basin and redefined greatness."
Richard Foster
So I am studing the "Spiritual Disciplines" you know: solitude, silence, fasting, frugality, sercrecy, sacrifice, study, prayer, worship, celebration, fellowship, and confession. Then I come to "Service and Sacrifice" and read this: "Whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God the Father through him." Colossians 3:17
Why do you do the things you do? Why do you eat where you do? Why do you play the sports you do? Why do you play an instrument? Why do you go to church? Why do you have the friends you do? Why do you pray? Then I ask myself this: Why did Jesus wash His disciples feet and why do people say that redefined greatness? My thoughts go quickly to this: because it was NOT ABOUT HIM!!
We define greatness by the money we make, or the car we drive. Maybe by the friends we have, or how big our house is but nobody would define greatness as kneeling down and washing someone else's stinky feet. Although, it changed the face of history. Why? Because someone finally stood up and said enough with this idea of serving yourself it is time to serve and sacrifice for the greater need of seeing others come to Christ and that has nothing to do with ME!
So if you are a believer practice this simply yet hard discipline. Take the focus of you and put it on Him and see how that changes everything. I promise your circumstances and lifes problems will not seem as significant as does a person who does not know him or the idea of blessing and helping someone beside yourself. I promise it is not about you and it never will be......... | | |
| Have you thought much about the people in your life? Who you come in contact with on a daily basis? You know I read something the other day that said you are 90% a direct reflection of those you spend time with. So therefore I truly become like those I am around. My friends, my family, my co-workers, etc. I allow them to rub that much on to me.
Well, this is not so much a problem if you are around people that draw you to Christ and point the way to life. But, how about those we hang around that draw us elsewhere. That draw us to depths that are hard to escape. That really back us into a corner.
"Do not be misled: Bad company corrupts good character." I Corinthians 15:33
Do you need to change the folks you hang around? Do you need to change so that 90% that you rub off on someone else is good. Remember it is never to late. It is never to late to change your circumstances so that you can become more like Christ. In fact, do not be misled but be smart enough to change what is around you.
** Just a side note. There where 4 incredible families that I sat with last night at the NLR fundraising banquet that helped me realize this so much more. Thank you so much.... | | |
| "Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more." Ephesians 4:19
Ephesians 4 is talking about living and breathing the unity of the body of Christ. This particuliar passage is talking about what can break that unity down. Losing sensitivity or being sensualized by every form of impurity. The bad part is they had a continual lust for more...
Have you been sensualized by the world? Has your sensitivity level become so off base that sin doesn't even register with you anymore? Do you have the oh, well attitude when there is a crude joke or cuss word? Is this world overcoming you? Do you lust for more of the world or more of Christ?
If this world has taken you over stop this downward spiral toward destruction and make it right. Cry out and lust for more of Christ not the next latest CD, electronic gadget, game, guy or girl. Lust for Christ. Change your very thinking. Get mad when sin reigns around you and in you, and be strong enough to do something about it.
Christ strives for us to be Christlike not popular...
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