Sunday review: July 5-10
Among many helpful themes trickling through this week’s posts is this: Whatever you’re facing today, God can handle. Be encouraged to lay it in his hands as you remember what’s written here.
July 5
Both our character and actions should be seen by others, but not for our benefit and attention. We live generous lives visibly so that God is glorified. We don’t live good lives so others will think we are wonderful or the best. We want the people we come in contact with to know that Jesus is the best and worthy of praise.
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July 6
Maybe our efforts to make sure everyone knows God’s perspective on every moral issue is more about us defending ourselves and our choices than actually promoting and sharing God’s love, grace, and forgiveness.
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July 7
God isn’t looking for heroes. He doesn’t need rock stars to perform for him. What God wants are people whose hearts simply seek him. Those are the ones he rushes to support. God doesn’t need us to try and do it by ourselves. He has all the resources and all the wisdom and power to accomplish whatever mission we are assigned.
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July 8
Turn around. Walk in a different direction from the world. Choose to live the opposite of all strategies and goals of power and selfishness. Beginning with the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus would describe the many ways his Kingdom was different. And to choose the way of Jesus required then and requires now that we turn from the patterns of the world and follow him.
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July 9
We can go limping along, trying to do it ourselves or hoping some mystery god would show up and do it for us. We could do what lots of the people did before Jesus showed up: Just listen to all the scholars tell us what to do and hope we follow the rules effectively. Or we could do what Jesus asked; pick a master, walk through a gate, and establish our lives on a good foundation.
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July 10
We often equate joy with happiness. But they are altogether different. In fact, it seems to me that happiness can be the enemy, not the partner, of joy.
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