This morning I am reminded of how life can throw us a loop. We are expecting spring and boom we get hit with over 6 inches of snow. We prepare for things and expect things to only have it get turned upside down. The lessons in this are huge, take for today for what we have, don't get lost in worry about tomorrow, for it will be here soon enough. Enjoy the beauty that God has given us, see it for what it is instead of expecting to change it or for it to change. Take each step and see it for a new step, a new way, take today for what God has given you and stop looking for it to change.
It all comes down to choices. Yes your choices. I have been reminded that days are what we make them. If we get up on the wrong side of the bed, make a choice that the day is God's not ours. I can only imagine that some days will be more difficult then others, but if we put Jesus first in all we do, how can the day be bad? When we change our thinking to this guy is really difficult, a pain and it is difficult to deal with him and we ask ourselves what would Jesus do? Do you think He would yell at the guy or love them?
We are to quick to jump at others, back down and remember what would Jesus do in this situation. I am reminded of this every single day at work. It is a choice, get yelled at we want to yell back, we want to hurt them how they hurt us, but is that the right way to respond? No, because Jesus says turn the other cheek. Isn't it time we did the same?
Our time is now, because Jesus says walk as He did and does. We are to love, not to hate, not to teach hate, but to teach love, to teach that Jesus wants everyone, but it comes down to choices. It comes down to the plain example of what Jesus did to the tax collector, or what about the woman that was going to be stoned for her sins? He knew she was a sinner and she said let only those who have not sinned throw the first stone. What does that say for us today?
Maybe we need to step back and see what the greatest commandment is? Isn't it to love God with all your heart, soul and mind and then the second one is to what? It is to love your neighbor as yourself. It is to love them, it doesn't mean we have to agree with them, but it does mean we have to love them with Jesus's love. People dislike this teaching, because it goes against what some say in the church, but what is more important, what Jesus says, or what the church says?
We need to remember those we disagree with, to pray for, to lift up before God and see how He wants us to deal with them. Stop reacting and start praying.
A song to think about in lines with this.
Degarmo And Key – Casual Christian Lyrics
Play Song On Your Computer
It's more than a wish, more than a daydream
More than just a passing whim
Yes, I've said this all before
A thousand times or more
I don't wanna waste my life in chains of sin
CHORUS
I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be a casual Christian
I don't wanna live, I don't wanna live a lukewarm life
But I wanna light up the night
With an everlasting light
I don't wanna live the casual Christian life
This life is filled with strong distractions
With pulls from the left one from the right
I've already made up my mind
Gonna leave this world behind
Gonna live my life a living sacrifice.
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