SEEMING TO BE IMPORTANT
Greetings in Christ:
Have you ever met a person that seemed to be important, but who really was not? Have you ever been in a place that the people around gave great importance to and yet in the final analysis was not important at all? Each one of these things deals with reflections of what someone want you to believe or think about people or places. In our own ways we tend to do that with one another as well because we rarely show someone whom we have just met the truth about who it is that we are...instead we tend to reflect an image to them of who we want them to think that we are.
It amazes me how easily it is to get that wrong about people. Someone may dress well and carry themselves in a certain way and so many may think they are wealthy or of a high social status when they may well be someone who has very little. My point here is that we cannot really relate to a false person because when we find out who they really are chances are we will become disappointed, and feel we have somehow been cheated by them. This is the way of the world around us because we are constantly being deceived by the things that we see and get involved in through our social structures. We really should be able to feel safe and receive a truthful statement from those whom we fellowship with.
There are many people within the church who have hung onto their physical identity, but who God has been working to create a new person from. Many of these have done a certain kind of work all of their lives, and yet now God is calling them to be a new creature who is formed to be a whole new person. The problem is that they refuse to not cling intently to the old...they choose to not let go of a life they have always known so they can be given a new identity in Christ. About a year ago someone came up to me and said " You must have been a teacher all of your life because of the way you go about doing things" I said NOPE! I have been a laborer and a truck driver, an artist and a singer, but I have never risen high enough in the academic world to be a teacher of men. They said " then it is God who has made you to be a professor of the word of God". It is then that I began to realize that everyone who has touched Jesus has been changed...Peter was a fisherman; and yet he became a great Apostle. Others who have been found in the deepest of sin and failures have been remade by the power of God to be people of great accomplishment in Christ.
By all standards we are being called to be transformed by the renewing of our minds and hearts into a brand new creature who is acceptable within the Kingdom of God. Have you ever dreamed?...Have you ever wondered what God wants to make out of your life? If you have what has been stopping you from allowing God to take you and transform you into who it is that you have always wanted to be in Christ? This is a good time of year to simply let go of this world and trust in God. Hold on to what really is important instead of what has seemed to be so. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
Have you ever met a person that seemed to be important, but who really was not? Have you ever been in a place that the people around gave great importance to and yet in the final analysis was not important at all? Each one of these things deals with reflections of what someone want you to believe or think about people or places. In our own ways we tend to do that with one another as well because we rarely show someone whom we have just met the truth about who it is that we are...instead we tend to reflect an image to them of who we want them to think that we are.
It amazes me how easily it is to get that wrong about people. Someone may dress well and carry themselves in a certain way and so many may think they are wealthy or of a high social status when they may well be someone who has very little. My point here is that we cannot really relate to a false person because when we find out who they really are chances are we will become disappointed, and feel we have somehow been cheated by them. This is the way of the world around us because we are constantly being deceived by the things that we see and get involved in through our social structures. We really should be able to feel safe and receive a truthful statement from those whom we fellowship with.
There are many people within the church who have hung onto their physical identity, but who God has been working to create a new person from. Many of these have done a certain kind of work all of their lives, and yet now God is calling them to be a new creature who is formed to be a whole new person. The problem is that they refuse to not cling intently to the old...they choose to not let go of a life they have always known so they can be given a new identity in Christ. About a year ago someone came up to me and said " You must have been a teacher all of your life because of the way you go about doing things" I said NOPE! I have been a laborer and a truck driver, an artist and a singer, but I have never risen high enough in the academic world to be a teacher of men. They said " then it is God who has made you to be a professor of the word of God". It is then that I began to realize that everyone who has touched Jesus has been changed...Peter was a fisherman; and yet he became a great Apostle. Others who have been found in the deepest of sin and failures have been remade by the power of God to be people of great accomplishment in Christ.
By all standards we are being called to be transformed by the renewing of our minds and hearts into a brand new creature who is acceptable within the Kingdom of God. Have you ever dreamed?...Have you ever wondered what God wants to make out of your life? If you have what has been stopping you from allowing God to take you and transform you into who it is that you have always wanted to be in Christ? This is a good time of year to simply let go of this world and trust in God. Hold on to what really is important instead of what has seemed to be so. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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