God isn’t as likely to do things “for us” as He is to do things “through us”. We are supposed to be His body. If we don’t show up, we shouldn’t expect much. It is Christ “in us” that is the hope of glory.
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We are not likely to convince anyone of a truth that we ourselves never believed enough to live out
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We shouldn’t mistake good intentions for right motivations. God is not as interested in our desired outcomes as He is in what moves us to act or speak.
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Jesus didn’t come to rescue us. He came to make a way for us. We have to choose to walk in that way.
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We can rationalize that we didn’t light the match, but if we’ve been walking around pouring gasoline on everything, we own part of the damage done by the fire
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We speak against hate, yet slander and mock anyone who disagrees with us
We advocate for the idea of unity, but unfriend anyone who doesn’t share our worldview
We petulantly rationalize our own acts of rebellion, while incredulously condemning the anarchy incited by others
We bemoan that no one has walked in our shoes, but then presume to know what other people think
We invest trust in people who don’t really care about us, while distrusting the neighbor, who’s never betrayed us
We convince ourselves that the problem is “Them”But this is “Us”
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It is the spirit of this age, and the world system it fuels, that pushes us to embrace our identity as victims; powerless, offended, oppressed, and in desperate need of validation, vindication and compensation from a people with no capacity to provide any of those things. It is the Spirit of Christ that invites us to the reality that we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us, and sacrificed that we might be free. Ultimately, it is the person He created us to be that He knew before we were in our mother’s womb (Jer. 1:5), but it is the person we choose to become instead that He can tell, “I never knew you (Matt. 7:23)”.
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It is the impetuous nature of the Sower that compels them to throw seed onto frozen ground. But if we hope to bear fruit we must discern the times & seasons.
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In the last year no term has come to mean less than the word “virtual”. Though we’ve had to make due with what was available, there is no pretending that all of these things (e.g online classes, Zoom calls, waving at grandma from outside the window…) are virtually the same as the real thing. We need to recognize how blessed our “normal” has been, and not take it for granted, if it ever returns.
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