Spoiled Rotten
January 12, 2011
Often we complain when there are consequences for our actions, however if we weren’t God’s children and He didn’t love us, there would be no consequences. In early Scriptures, the consequences for someone’s sin meant that something, unblemished and without spot, had to die. Because of Christ’s death on the cross as payment for our sin, we are spoiled rotten to the point that all we have to do is truly repent and be clean. There will be consequences, just as a shepherd breaks the legs of his sheep before returning it to the flock, however we should be grateful because our consequences are given to us out of love, and we must genuinely learn from them.
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We have the luxury of texting, e-mailing, skyping, or other forms of communicating. None of these equal the encouragement it brings to someone to see him or her in person. Paul understood this and that is why he traveled to different cities to minister to people. He knew it was important in discipleship to not just lead them to God but to follow up. We believe in a God who came down in person and lived among us here on earth before dying for our sins. We ought to follow the Lord’s prompting and show up wherever He leads us in person – at work, at a neighbor’s, a friend’s, or even a different country.
January 9, 2011
When Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane, He laid prostrate before God, overcome with sorrow because He knew what was to come. He knew the contents of the cup He must drink and He asked God to take it from Him. We all have certain struggles in our lives that we must fight. Our flesh is weak, and that is why carrying our cross, as Jesus calls us to do, involves dying to ourselves and finding new life in Christ. We must, as Jesus did, accept the cup God gives us and glorify Him through our struggles, all the while remaining prostrate before Him saying not what I will, but what You will.
January 6, 2011
It is a fact of life that tragedy happens. The question is how you will respond after the fact. Will you worship God despite your circumstances, or will you shake your fist at him when tragedy occurs? Everyone can make plans in their lives, but we must always remember to leave those plans open for God to change them. Sometimes the way God gets us to where he wants us to go is never the way we would have chosen, and still we must worship him.
January 3, 2011
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