Spiritual Five Year Old’s

21 05 2008

I love my oldest son Lincoln. He is 5 years old and loves his daddy! I love seeing the changes in him, physically and socially. As he’s grown older I see the traits that all 5 year old’s seem to exhibit and it got me thinking spiritually.

In the Bible we see that some Christians are referred to as “mature”, and others are referred to as “Baby” Christians. But what about those who aren’t quite mature, but aren’t still babes? What about spiritual 5 year olds? I’m convinced that there are more spiritual 5 year olds than babes out there. These are christians who have a grasp of God’s Word, who don’t need the milk in a bottle anymore, but still aren’t anywhere close to mature. How do we know we are a spiritual 5 year old? Let’s look at some parallels to a physical 5 year old.

  • A spiritual 5 year old knows what is the right thing to do, knows the cost and still does the opposite. Lincoln is always doing things that he knows he will get in trouble for. Either he can’t help himself or he has counted the cost and believes that the fun he will have doing the wrong thing will be worth the punishment. Why do we as Christians engage in sinful activities that we know will hurt us in the end? Because we are spiritually 5!
  • A spiritual 5 year old thinks that they know better than their father. Lincoln is now in the arguing phase. He thinks he’s right about everything. Even when I tell him he’s wrong, he sticks with his viewpoint. Sometimes he has a hard time believing me even though I’ve never mislead him before. As a spiritual 5 year old, we still think we know better than God. We think that in spite of what God says in His word, we know what is best for us and we don’t listen to our father.
  • A spiritual 5 year old thinks mostly of themselves. Like most children, Lincoln is about, “me”. He doesn’t like to share his toys with his brother or think, “what can I do for someone else”. It’s mostly about him. And that’s to be expected when you’re 5. A spiritual 5 year old also thinks mostly of themselves. What can I get out of this church? If this church isn’t meeting my needs, I’ll leave. What programs do you have for me? Church is supposed to be a place where we come to give…to provide for others, to minister to the needs of others, to serve. But if we are in a church of spiritual 5 year olds, no ones needs get met because everyone is looking out for number 1.
  • A spiritual 5 year old needs constant affirmation. I love to tell my son that I’m proud of him. I love to squeeze him and tell him every hour on the hour that I love him and that he is doing a good job. While the need for affirmation never goes away, as we mature we should need less of it. A fully mature believer does what’s right no matter the situation and doesn’t need affirmation or praise for doing it. Sometimes it’s nice…a bonus…but it’s not necessary.
  • A spiritual 5 year old is afraid to grow up. Lincoln has had a hard time with stopping wearing pull-ups to bed. He never struggled with potty training but this thing has a grip on him. I think he feels deep inside that this part of growing up means that there will be extra work and responsibility for him. He’ll be expected to get up in the middle of the night and go to the bathroom if he has to. He will have to deal with the failure should he mess up and pee the bed. He’d rather keep wearing a pull-up! It’s easier! A spiritual 5 year old would rather stay 5 than grow up spiritually, because if he does grow up, what might God expect of him….what might God ask him to do? He is afraid that God will expect more from him (which is true) and they are afraid of the failure to live up to His expectations…so why not keep wearing spiritual pull-ups?

So, there you have it. Were are you? Are you a spiritual 5 year old? Are there some steps you need to take in order to begin to grow up spiritually? What do you think?


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Excellence is the American Church’s idol?

6 05 2008

O.K., so shoot me now! I know that I apologized beforehand for some of this weeks posts….this being one of them. First of all let me say that it is my belief that we should do everything that we do to the best of our God-given abilities. We should strive to do the best with what God has gifted us with. But, where in the Bible does it say that God expects excellence from us in the Church? It may be in there, I’m not sure, but I believe that God is more interested in our hearts and our motives and that we’ve done all that we do to His glory and to the best of our abilities. But what if our very best isn’t excellent? What if all we have to give just doesn’t measure up to some preconceived notion of what excellence is? We as the Church in America have really gone off the deep end sometimes with this excellence thing. Can God use something that isn’t excellent? I think He used Moses even though he was slow of speech and probably had a stutter. I believe the Bible says that God is into using the weak, the foolish things of this world to show His power. I’ll tell you right now, I’m foolish, I’m weak! How about you? Don’t get me wrong, I believe that we should strive for excellence…it can send a good message to outsiders, but I believe a greater thing to strive for is authenticity, to be real.

I think there is a danger in placing so much emphasis on our excellence. It can get to the point where we don’t feel we need God to show up anymore. I know, I’ve been there. may we never have it together so much that we feel we don’t need God to show up.

The most effective sermon I ever preached was on a missions trip to rural Mississippi. I was tired, ill-prepared (I was given about 3 hours notice that I would be preaching) and nervous. I fumbled through the entire message, forgetting points and a few of the great stories that were there to make it interesting. When I sat down, I was sure that I’d failed as a pastor. I wasn’t excellent like Andy Stanley or Francis Chan. I didn’t “bring it” like Craig Groeschel or T.D. Jakes. I didn’t deliver the goods like Rick Warren or Bill Hybels. Heck….I wasn’t even nice like Joel Osteen. I was shocked when the altar filled with dozens (and I mean several dozen) people who wanted to give their lives to Christ. Excellent? No. Usable? You betcha. I guess the old adage is true. God is more interested in availability than ability.


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Piper on The Prosperity Gospel

26 03 2008

I’m sitting at my computer with tears in my eyes. God, that I could ever say without wavering, “You are enough”. Sometimes the words of God spoken through a man of God like John Piper slice right through a heart and leave you devastated. I’m devastated.


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Holding Worship

25 03 2008

You gotta read this post. Awesome picture of authentic worship.


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Would I know You Now?

25 03 2008

I’m not a big “CCM” fan, but I’ve always had an appreciation for the songwriting of Wayne Watson. This song is one that always convicts me over and over again. As a matter of fact, I actually have the words penned on the inside of my Bible that I used throughout college. Wayne explains how the song came to be, and shares the lyrics. Powerful.

I heard a country song years ago that told the story of an old, down and out kind of guy that walked into a church building. The worship service was in progress when he came in and as the song goes, he tells about how he doesn’t fit in. He notices that most of the people are dressed in nice clean clothes and he is dirty and wearing his worn out best. Then he starts talking to Jesus and says he remembered that people didn’t accept Him either. The singer describes his kinship with the Son of Man – outcast and rejected, hoping that the Savior would take him as he is.

I don’t know the artists’ name or even the name of the song, but I remember how it resonated in me.

I grew up in church – there all the time. As a child going off to church in my hometown, you wore your Sunday best and always entered the building with reverence. We always sat in the same seat while most other regulars held down their own places as well. I don’t know how we would have treated a stranger like the one in the song. Not many strangers came along in those days. I hope we would have welcome without prejudice but I don’t know.

The country song I heard, along with years of observation from the pew, got me to thinking. Have I formed some image of Christ that conforms to my definition?
Do I see him like the picture on the Sunday school room wall? What if he came in the form of a biker or a foreigner that I don’t know? What if he came in some bodily form that was repulsive to me?

I’ve always been fascinated with this question. What was Jesus’ personality like? From the scripture, we get a clear picture of His heart and His character – how he felt about His Father and how he felt about all kinds of people. But was He outgoing – type A? Was He gregarious and funny? Or was he private and melancholy? Being fully human as well as fully divine, did he have one dominating personality or was he a composite of all of them? I don’t know why but it’s interesting to me.

I suppose it’s interesting because so many of us quietly insist that, if we are to become like Jesus, then He has to be a little like me. I’m thankful that God made each of us unique – with unique fingerprints and unique gifts and talents. It’s His business to give what He wants. It’s my desire to pursue the characteristics of my Lord and try to imitate Him – to be conformed to His image while still retaining the “me” that he formed before the foundation of the earth. All the while, the thing to remember is “less of me, more of You”.

I wrote “Would I Know You Now” to express these thoughts.


Would I Know You NowWould I know you now?
If you walked into the room
If you stilled he crowd
If you’re light dispelled the gloom
And if I saw your wounds
Touched your thorn pierced brow
I wonder if I’d know you now

Would I know you now?
If you walked into this place
Would I cause you shame
Would my games be your disgrace?
Or would I worship you
Fall upon my face
I wonder if I’d know you now

Or have the images I’ve painted
So distorted who you are
That even if the world was looking
They could not see you
The real you

Have I changed the true reflection?
To fulfill my own design
Making you what I want
Not showing you forth Divine
Showing you Divine

Would I miss you now?
If you left and closed the door
Would my flesh cry out?
I don’t need you anymore
Or would I follow you
Could I be restored?
I wonder if I’d know you
Will I ever learn?
I wonder if I’d know you now


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Some thoughts from Colossians

25 03 2008
  • Paul says that the Church in Colossae is known for it’s people’s faith and love
  • I’d love to be a Church that is known for it’s faith and love
  • Too many churches are known for it’s famous pastor, it’s political views, it’s stance against things, boycott’s and it’s judgmental people. (as a side note…I can’t find anywhere in the Bible where it tells us to pass judgment on those outside of the faith. I only see where God tells us to judge (keep in check) those who claim to be Christians)
  • Jesus is the visible reflection of the invisible God
  • We are called to also be the visible reflection of the invisible God
  • How am I reflecting God’s image to people? Would He be ashamed?
  • Our goal as a Church is to present every Christian, fully mature in Christ.
  • We are to be deeply rooted and Built up. So many believers think this means to study, study, study all the time. I think we should be in the Word, but we also need to be reaching out. It reminds me of this picture that hangs in a Starbucks that I saw on Scott Hodges blog:

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  • Did you read it? The Deeper the Roots the higher the reach! Wow…Starbucks can be so spiritual!
  • 2:8 says to be sure no one takes us captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy. I was reminded quickly of Oprah’s “new Jesus”.
  • 4:5 says we are to be wise in the way we act towards outsiders (non-believers). I think this is why we do what we do at Journey…because we want to be wise in our actions towards the non-Christian. We want to remove any obstacle that might be in their way and standing between them and faith in Christ.

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Worst Sermon Ever?

24 03 2008

You’ve gotta listen to this guy. It’s about 4 minutes long, but it’s the funniest thing I’ve heard in a while. I’ll never pee the same way again (shout out to Boz!)


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Awareness Test

22 03 2008

Check this out….

As believers, how often do we miss God, simply because we’re focusing on something else and miss Him altogether? Just a thought.


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The Journey Church is bringing Sexy Back!

18 03 2008

This is the graphic for a new series we are doing in April called “Sexyback”. Want to know what God has to say about sex? Want to hear the Church address things that would make most churches blush? Come on out every Saturday night in April.

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A Poser is a Poser is a Poser

13 03 2008

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Los Angeles (E! Online) - To celebrate his 60th birthday, Billy Crystal has finally been given home-field advantage. Sort of.

The actor and avowed baseball nut who has toted his love of the game with him into more than a few films has inked a one-day contract with the New York Yankees that will allow him to play in Thursday’s exhibition game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at the Bronx Bombers‘ spring training facility in Tampa, Florida.

And despite the unintentionally laughable outcome that resulted from Michael Jordan’s and Garth Brooks’ brief forays onto the field, Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig has given Crystal his blessing to play ball.

“I’ve been waiting 50 years for this call,” Crystal said in a statement released by the Yankees on Monday. “I’m overwhelmed by the generosity of the Yankees and commissioner Selig. I know this’ll be tougher than the Broadway Softball League, but I’m looking forward to helping the younger players, which by the way is all of them. Oops, I have to go, Scott Boras is on the phone.”

(Boras is one of MLB’s top agents, famous for negotiating infielder Alex Rodriguez’s unprecedented 10-year, $252 million deal with the Texas Rangers in 2000, and then was left holding the phone when Rodriguez negotiated a 10-year, $275 million extension from the Yankees last year on his own.)

On game day, Crystal’s pinstriped jersey will sport the number 60, a nod to the birthday he’ll celebrate the day after his big-league debut.

“The Yankees are excited to welcome the newest member of our team known for his humor and wit as well as his undying love for the Yankees,” added Lonn Yost, the organization’s chief operating officer.

According to the Yankees, Crystal—a Long Island native who hit up the batting cages in When Harry Met Sally, described his first trip to Yankee Stadium as “my perfect day” in City Slickers, and directed the HBO film 61*, about Roger Maris‘ pursuit of Babe Ruth’s home-run record—hit .348 during his senior year at Long Beach High School.

The Emmy-winning comedian also used to play regularly in the Los Angeles Dodgers‘ annual Hollywood Stars Game, which has counted Jamie Foxx, Steve Martin, Robin Williams, Ray Romano, David Boreanaz, Tony Danza, Kevin Costner, Keanu Reeves, Jimmy Kimmel, Sean Astin, David Arquette, Tom Selleck and Rob Schneider among its participants over the years.

The Dodgers switched to softball in 2004 so female celebrities, such as mlb.com blogger and serial player-dater Alyssa Milano, could grab their gloves, as well.

As for what position Crystal will play when he suits up at Legends Field on Thursday, the Yankees’ new manager, Joe Girardi, says he isn’t sure of his lineup yet.

“That remains to be seen,” Girardi told reporters following his team’s 4-0 exhibition win over the Cincinnati Reds. “Obviously, it’s kind of exciting. Billy Crystal has done a lot for this organization. He’s always been a big part of it. Our way of rewarding him, saying thanks for everything that you’ve done.”

My take: I am an avid Yankee hater and I don’t care all that much for Crystal, and this is just a ridiculous stunt. It’s nice that this 60 year old guy gets to sign a one day contract, wear a uniform and play in an exhibition game, but that no more makes him a Yankee than me wearing a suit makes me the President. As I thought about this though, it dawned on me….this is how alot (and I mean alot) of people in our country live. They go to church on Sunday (or Saturday),wear the acceptable clothes, sing some songs, listen to a message that they will forget before they leave the parking lot and think that what they just did makes them a Christian. Going to church and doing something “religious” one day a week no more makes someone a Christian than does wearing a Yankee uniform for a day make Billy Crystal a Yankee. When Billy Crystal makes a commitment, and goes out and practices every day, plays 162 games and sheds the blood, sweat and tears it takes to actually be called a Major League ball player….that’s when he can be called a true Yankee. Likewise, once we stop living as if God or faith is something we do once a week at church and start daily putting into practice God’s Word and start shedding the blood, sweat and tears it takes to truly be a follower of Christ, then and only then should we truly call ourselves a Christian.


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A Great Resource for Bible Reading

10 03 2008

Check out The One-year Bible @ YouVersion.com. Great way to compare and contrast versions and to read and post about each passage. Thanks to the guys at Lifechurch.tv for this one.

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An intersting Article

10 03 2008

Saw this old article in the archives of Monday Morning Insight.

Why Young Pastors Leave the Ministry

Angry2 This post comes from the NakedReligion blog… I find the ten reasons that he came up with to be quite intriguing. See what you think…

There is an epidemic occurring right under the nose of church middle judicatories and no one seems to notice. Young pastors (less than five years in the ministry) are leaving in droves. The Lilly Foundation has poured millions of dollars into “Sustaining Pastoral Ministry” initiatives and it’s too soon to tell whether or not their approach is working. Aside from the obvious reasons pastors leave the ministry (sexual impropriety, financial mismanagement, and marital dissolution) here are the top ten reasons why young pastors call it quits:

1. The discontinuity between what they imagined ministry to be and what it actually is is too great.

2. A life without weekends sucks.

3. The pay is too low (most pastors in my denomination make less money than a school teacher with five years experience).

4. They are tired of driving ten year old cars while their congregations trade in their cars every two years.

5. Many young pastors are called into difficult congregations that chew pastors up and spit them out because experienced pastors know better.

6. Even though the search committee told them they wanted to reach young people, they didn’t really mean it.

7. When the pastor asked the search committee if they were an “emergent church”, the members of the search committee thought he said “divergent church” and agreed.

8. Nobody told the young pastor that cleaning the toilets was part of the job description.

9. The young pastor’s student loans came due and the amount of money he/she owes on a monthly basis exceeds his/her income.

10. Working at McDonalds has alot less stress.

Why do you think young pastors are leaving in the ministry in droves?

My thoughts?

1. If you came to the pastorate expecting to make money, you’re stupid….so stop complaining.

2. A 10 year old car? This is all you got? How about being thankful for a car at all!

3. A life without weekends? I look forward to the weekend, so I can worship God with my family (both blood and spiritual)

4. If you’re a pastor and you’re not willing to clean a toilet, look for another job.

5. Less stress at McDonalds? Yeah, but I guess Jesus could have found something less stressful than the cross!

I’m not usually one to get all upset at an article, but seriously….Being in the ministry is tough, frustrating, stressful, full of failure, not lucrative and if you are truly called, you wouldn’t have it any other way! The reason so many walk away…they’re not truly called, or just don’t understand what ministry is about. Hey, young pastors….It’s not about comfort! Grow up! OK, I’m off my soapbox now!


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Please no more tracts, bumper stickers or Test-a-mints!!!

10 03 2008

We as Christians have come up with some of the stupidest ideas for telling people about our faith. Let me just wear a shirt that says, “iPray” instead of iPod, or leave a tract to a waiter you just stiffed, or my favorite, “In case of Rapture, this car will be unmanned” bumper stickers. We use these things as cop-outs for really building relationships with people, getting to know them and they us and then engaging in discussions with them that lead to the subject of Christ. When is the last time you had an unbeliever over for dinner? When is the last time you had a real faith centered conversation with someone who does not profess to be a Christian? I’ve been so convicted of this lately. I work in a Christian environment, all my friends are Christians, I just feel like I’m in this Christian bubble. I’m pretty sure…O.K., I’m 100% sure that’s not how Jesus would do things. I’m stepping out of my comfort zone after this school year and doing full-time what I know I should be doing….fishing! Here are a couple of books that have been helping me and challenging me. How are you doing?

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Things I’ve learned (or been learning) lately

6 03 2008

These are some of the lessons God is currently teaching me:

  • Stop trying to do ministry under your own power (rely on God, not my own talents or gifts)
  • Don’t compare your church with others (we are all on the same team….and I need to celebrate the successes of other churches, because they are wins for the kingdom)
  • Don’t be scared to do something because you don’t have enough money.
  • You can’t take people to a place you’ve never been (my spiritual growth must come first)
  • Have fun doing God’s work
  • Expect criticism if God is working (if you are doing things outside the box and God is moving, people (mostly other Christians) will take shots at you)
  • Be myself (sure we can learn from others, but I’ve got to be who I am and not try to copy other peoples ministries…I can’t be Andy Stanley, Perry Noble, or Rick Warren, and I shouldn’t want to be!)

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The Secure Leader

28 02 2008

Mark Batterson, pastor of National Community Church recently blogged about a session he taught at a recent conference on, “The Secure Leader“. Here’s what he wrote…

This morning I’m doing a session at the Evolve Conference titled The Secure Leader. I’m going to use Saul as a case study in insecurity. Two verses represent two defining moments in his life.

I Samuel 14:35: “And Saul built an altar to God; the first one he had ever built.” So far so good. Saul is building altars to God. But fast-forward one chapter. I Samuel 15:12 says, “Saul went up to Carmel to build a monument to himself.” Somewhere between those two verses, Saul stopped building altars to God and started building monuments to himself. There is a fine line between Thy Kingdom Come and My Kingdom Come. At some point, it was no longer about God. It was about Saul.

Here are seven habits of secure leaders:

1) Don’t play the comparison game.

No one wins! Comparison either leads to pride or jealousy!

2) Success isn’t numbers

Saul got caught up in the numbers game. And David had better stats. Listen, if my children grow up to love God and everything else falls apart I’m successful. But if NCC grows to 50,000 people and I sell 10,000,000 books it means nothing if my family falls apart. Jesus was successful because he poured his life into twelve people!

3) Celebrate your failures.

Insecure people are afraid of failing. Secure people laugh at themselves. They celebrate failure because it accentuates what God can do inspite of us!

4) Don’t panic

Saul panics when his men start scattering so he makes a sacrifice instead of waiting for Samuel. Insecure people get nervous. They give up. Secure leaders hang in there no matter what.

5) Don’t get defensive

How you handle criticism will make you or break you. You need tough skin and a soft heart. If you’re insecure your defense mechanisms will get the best of you. So instead of leading out of imagination you’ll lead out of insecurity.

6) Surround yourself with the right people

Who was Saul’s greatest asset? David. But if you are insecure, your greatest asset will become your greatest threat. And it will short-circuit your ability to surround yourself with a great team. And it will limit your influence.

7) Keep building altars to God

God often uses us at our point of insecurity because then He gets all the credit. I pray for the favor of God as much as anything else because I want God to do things for me that I cannot do for myself. And every time we experience God’s blessing we need to build an altar. That’s why we named our coffeehouse Ebenezers: hitherto the Lord has helped me. The blessings of God either turn into pride or praise.

Are you building altars to God or monuments to yourself?

Some of this stuff really hits home for me, especially the whole “success isn’t numbers” thing. We hear that alot, but as pastors, that’s a hard one to swallow.


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Smellmylife??? What the…?

26 02 2008

My e-mail and blog titles are usually great conversation starters. Some of you might just think it’s just me being weird (which I am!), but it has a spiritual meaning. It’s based on 2 Corinthians 2:15-16. Oddly enough my sister Leslie is writing a devotional book and sent me this chapter from it, which sums it up pretty well.

Spiritual Body Odor

My teenage daughter, Stephanie, came to me one day in tears. She felt overwhelmed with rejection from a group of kids at school. She is so burdened in her heart for them – and has been praying for them for years. These are kids she used to hang around a lot, but recently she has not been around them because they have been making wrong decisions, leaving their faith and getting into things they promised they never would.

It’s heartbreaking when your children are suffering. But when they suffer for the sake of the gospel, there is heartbreak mixed with blessing beyond measure. I prayed under my breath as she finished pouring her heart out to me. She wondered why they didn’t like to be around her anymore. She wondered why her presence guaranteed a majority of them would clear the room. How could they treat my baby like this? Can’t they see how what a beautiful, pure heart she has? Can’t they see how much she loves them?

That’s when it hit me. It was almost immediate. 2 Corinthians 2:15-16! I immediately grabbed my Bible that I had read just minutes before she approached me. I was in that particular chapter and had underlined those verses. They were so fresh in my mind I could have quoted them, but I wanted her to read it for herself.

She was still crying as she read “For we are the God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life”. She looked up from the page and said “What’s that mean, mom?”.

I said “Well, this verse tells us that when you walk in a room, people who do not know Christ find you offensive – sort of a ‘spiritual body odor’ that makes them cringe. I told her that it was actually a good thing, though. As offensive as she is to them, it’s only because they are feeling convicted. Their conviction was not because of anything she did or said specifically, but because of Whose she is. God, on the other hand, thinks she is the fragrance of life! He is enamored with her – and her prayers and praises are like incense to Him.

That people were finding her hard to be around was not such a bad thing. Jesus said we will be persecuted when we follow him. Jesus also said the world will hate us because of Him. And Paul told the Galatians in chapter 1, verse 10 that he was not trying to please men, but God only. He said if he were trying to please men, he would not be a servant of Christ.

My daughter’s face lit up. She realized how alive scripture is at that moment. It was so relevant, so real to her. And it was as if the Lord was speaking directly to her heart. She let go of her pain, and realizing the importance of her witness, she was free to be herself without putting expectations on others for her happiness.

Are you experiencing any persecution in your life? Are there people in your life who don’t seem to want to be around you anymore? If so, take heart - You are the fragrance of life to the Lord! In John 15:20 Jesus said “If they persecuted me, they will persecute you!”. Consider it all joy – God is obviously working in your life if it’s “offensive” enough for people to notice!

2 Corinthians 2:15-16 “For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life. And who is equal to such task?”

 

 

 

 


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