This has been a
great week full of blessings as well as exhausting. I simply bring you to one of my favorite
passages from a little different perspective for us to think about.
This Sunday we will
celebrate baptism at The Community Fellowship, and it will be our second week
of the series called CHANGE. This is one
of those series where I get to talk about the brightest and most glaring aspect
of a church where God is working. That
is the fact that God still changes lives.
He is changing
people from being self-centered to God centered. He is changing me from being set on my way to
set on going His way. He is changing the
way I use my time, view my resources and the way I even love Him and love
others. God continues to change us.
This could not be
most vividly portrayed than in the difference that the Men on a Mission team
has made at our new campus this week. On
Monday morning the space was empty, but as the week comes to an end our new
space has been framed completely. It
really is amazing because God is able. I
am grateful for all this team and our God has done.
I close with these
verses that remind me of His greatness and my need for Him, for God:
Think of
yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with
God but didn’t think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages
of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the
privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly
humbling process. He didn’t claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a
selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death—and the worst
kind of death at that—a crucifixion. Because
of that obedience, God lifted him high and honored him far beyond anyone or
anything, ever, so that all created beings in heaven and on earth—even those
long ago dead and buried—will bow in worship before this Jesus Christ, and call
out in praise that he is the Master of all, to the glorious honor of God the
Father.
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