The overflow. You have been there and been a bit overwhelmed with what is going on. Your emotions might be flowing. Your mind might be racing. Your heart might be too full.
Well, today is one of those days for several reasons, but I am not here to tell you that tonight. This e-devotion is simply to recount some of the things that I shared during yesterday’s sermon at The Community Fellowship. It was a good day
I have been sharing a three week series simply titled “things I learned on sabbatical”. The topics have been: Jesus is enough, the problem of separation and the center of life and church. The center is the Gospel or the purpose of God or Jesus following.
Here are some of the quotes I used today…
— Our theme, our goal and our call as The Community Fellowship is to Demonstrate the love of God to our community through random acts of kindness so we win the right to tell them about Jesus whether we have their attention for 5 minutes or 50 minutes. It really is all about the Gospel. The Gospel is central.
— All we were ever meant to do was reflect the Son. - Blaine Bartel
— Many of us would rather be in a good situation without God instead of a bad situation with Him. - Michael Todd
— You were born to be an accurate representation of who Jesus is. Don’t waste the purpose of God in your life.
Those are BIG to me. I wrote them down weeks ago and had to share them in this message as well as continue to think through them.
May our lives literally reflect Jesus, the Son, because He and His message are the center of our lives!
These two verses continue to be heavy on my mind…
Matthew 7:13-14 NASB
Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. 14 For the gate is narrow and the way is constricted that leads to life, and there are few who find it.
Doing things our ways leads the wrong direction, or to destruction as this verse says. That makes a lot of sense especially in light of know that follow Jesus and obeying God, leads to success.
Finally I shared these verses last week and again today because they remind me of what having direction and having God at the center of our lives really means.
Proverbs 4:25-27 NLT
“Look straight ahead, and fix your eyes on what lies before you. Mark out a straight path for your feet; stay on the safe path. Don’t get sidetracked; keep your feet from following evil.”
Choose Him. Central for the church and each of us should be the Gospel.
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