- “And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.” (1Corinthians 13:13 NIV)
- “that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” (Ephesians 3:16-19 NKJV)
Sunday, September 21, 2008
An Inquiring Prayer
Father, I always say that I want to be a positive influence. I want to make a positive impact and leave a lasting impression in time for Your glory. But how can I influence for Your glory if I’m not seeking You? If I’m not seeking to be like Christ, how can I do anything for You and Your glory? If I feel wronged and then I turn around and wrong back or if I’m verbally lashed out at and I lash back then how am I going to be an influence for You? If I am not speaking love and positive reinforcing words into someone else’s life then how am I ever going to be an influence for You? How can I ever impact the world for You if I don’t attain to be like the One You sent to teach us how to live? So Lord help me to speak love, when others speak hate. Help me to speak life, when others speak death. Because if I am not building someone up in the name of Christ, I’m tearing them down in the name of the destroyer. Lord I want to build. Help me to fortify those within my grasp with Your Spirit, Your truth, Your words, Your promises and with Your love.
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3 comments:
neat-o, awesome
we all fail. at being positive. at lifting others up. at using our gifts to better glorify HIM and not ourselves. because we are selfish. we naturally try to raise ourselves up. in a way, darwinism is very very slightly accurate. survival of the fittest. we strive to be the fittest. be the best. prove we ARE good enough. not just good enough for God, but good enough for other people. which is why we fail. because we never never never never never will be good enough. someone will always be better. because Christ was perfect. Christ was better. HE created a cyclical cycle so that we can never achieve satisfaction with "being good enough".
but, you know what is absolutely AMAZING about all of that? WE FAIL! FAIL! i love seeing that as facebook bumper stickers and whole websites dedicated to it. I love that we fail, because we all have it in common. there isn't too many things about humanity that you can say we are all equals in. truly equals in. none of this US constitution "all men are created equal" stuff, because, in OUR perception, its not the truth. but we all fail. at something. chick rejects you. you trip up the stairs. forget to write a paper for a class, lie, cheat, sin. but HE forgives. HE knows we are unworthy. HE knows that darwinism is a bunch of crap and the only way to "survive" is through YHWH. So HE takes our failures, bears them, takes them as HIS own, and picks us up. without HIS grace, we fail. but without our failure, we dont have grace. paradoxical. yet amazing truth.
tracey, well said
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