How many times in your life has someone tried to "help" you at a department store, furniture store or electronics store? We usually try to smile weakly (without being terse) and say "I am just looking".
While reading the devotional today, I thought about how many people may be doing the same thing with our churches? Instead of "just looking" they could probably say "just watching" to see what we will do during the ups and downs of our lives. The responses to our lives could be varied. Some folks might ask us for assistance or ask questions, much like we do at the electronics store when we are not sure about a certain model or feature. Or, they could treat us like some religious groups that go door to door and say "We don't want any!" ha! Displaying the Christina life with all the ups, downs, joy, peace and growing pains is something most folks can understand since most lives have the same components. What they don't understand is that we have the God of all Creation at our side! Praise God!
Lord, please help us truly show others the joy and peace that only you can give!
Simply Saturday
I heard a new Matthew West song this week and had to purchase it on iTunes. Being a "doer", it spoke to me! Here are the lyrics:
"Do Something" [video]
I woke up this morning
Saw a world full of trouble now
Thought, how’d we ever get so far down
How’s it ever gonna turn around
So I turned my eyes to Heaven
I thought, “God, why don’t You do something?”
Well, I just couldn’t bear the thought of
People living in poverty
Children sold into slavery
The thought disgusted me
So, I shook my fist at Heaven
Said, “God, why don’t You do something?”
He said, “I did, I created you”
If not us, then who
If not me and you
Right now, it’s time for us to do something
If not now, then when
Will we see an end
To all this pain
It’s not enough to do nothing
It’s time for us to do something
I’m so tired of talking
About how we are God’s hands and feet
But it’s easier to say than to be
Live like angels of apathy who tell ourselves
It’s alright, “somebody else will do something”
Well, I don’t know about you
But I’m sick and tired of life with no desire
I don’t want a flame, I want a fire
I wanna be the one who stands up and says,
“I’m gonna do something”
If not us, then who
If not me and you
Right now, it’s time for us to do something
If not now, then when
Will we see an end
To all this pain
It’s not enough to do nothing
It’s time for us to do something
We are the salt of the earth
We are a city on a hill (shine shine, shine shine)
But we’re never gonna change the world
By standing still
No we won’t stand still
No we won’t stand still
No we won’t stand still
If not us, then who
If not me and you
Right now, it’s time for us to do something
If not now, then when
Will we see an end
To all this pain
It’s not enough to do nothing
It’s time for us to do something [x3]
Revivals greatest enemy is Pride, and the only bride Revival will walk down the isle with is Humility. Humility will deny herself the right of self gratification rather than turn away from God to fulfill her own pleasures, and she will not allow herself to receive the praise that should go to another (especially the Lord). Finally, she will rush to renounce herself, rather than sitting quietly when her Lord is robed of His glory. Oh, Father, we are so unlike her, but may we meet her so that we may walk down the isle to Revival and true Christlikeness? from Jonathan Edwards on Humility in Religious Affections
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