Saturday, June 18, 2016

You're the most beautiful thing I've ever seen!

We've likely all been around those people who we know have heard this their whole lives. And at times I've wondered how that continual message affects those people and how well they adjust to it. How do such words affect their mentality, how they feel about themselves (appropriately or not), and how they relate to those who complement them and to the rest of the world.

Then it occurs to me. My whole life and every moment of every day God has been telling me that "I" am the most beautiful thing He's ever seen. Mind boggling, I know! My next thought? How are those words affecting me, and how well am I adjusting to them? How does His continual message affect my mentality, how I feel about myself, and how I relate to Him and to the rest of the world?    

Hebrews 10:14    For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

Psalms 139:14    I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

Genesis 1:26, 31    Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness."  And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.

1 John 3:1    See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.

Colossians 2:10   And in Christ you have been brought to fullness.

Galatians 3:26    For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.   

(And the list could go on and on)

Friday, June 17, 2016

When traveling alone feels right

By my nature I am not a loner. I LOVE people! I'm called to! But I have seemingly been forced or fallen into a situation where I have lived and functioned very alone for many years. (Of course understanding that Christ is always there) And sometimes that "traveling alone" doesn't feel very good. Yet other times, regardless of how alone one may feel in one respect, it can still feel SO very right in another. Because....... when you KNOW you are traveling the correct path, even alone and "crazy to all observers," nothing else feels quite as right.    

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Attention-getting Christians or something else?

As Christians we don't live to draw attention to ourselves or to appear unique or crazy or "special" to the world or even to parts of the "church." We live to edify Christ. That's it! That's our goal! That's our purpose! It's all about Him!

And if we do that, if He truly IS our passion, then by HIS uniqueness living through us we WILL draw attention and appear unique or crazy or even get us labeled as attention-getting people who think we are "special." Yet, in this form of living ANY kind of "special" is ALL GOD and no self! The world just can't see it. Because they don't yet know it (true intimacy with Christ).  

In spite of the critics our focus must remain - Christ alone be edified, through us!