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Living in the world. Living as Christians.

How does one live, fully, in the world as a Christian? We are a pilgrim people. We are constantly searching for perfection, for goodness and love. We are constantly striving to build those things within us. We are constantly moving toward our ultimate home. Our home in Him. The one true God. He who waits for us at the end of all our journey's. I’ve always thought that a road trip should make plenty of stops. Eat here. Take a photo there. When in Rome do as the Romans do. ...but, historically, Rome isn’t the best place to emulate. ...and the food we tend to eat, while on the road, isn’t always that good for us. ...and which memories, from along the way, should we really try to keep? We find ourselves in places. Sometimes we’re in those places because of the one’s we’ve been in before.  We don’t get anywhere from standing still. We must keep moving. As we do we must consider where we are and where it is we’ve been. Being a Christian, in the world, ...
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Fear Not

Fear is the anticipation of something harmful. It’s a yellow traffic light. It’s blue and red blinking lights, with sirens blaring. Fear is an “influencer”. It gains followers and it adds friends. It speaks to you with words that are relatable- because those words always come from your past. Fear is the experience that you know can happen, because it has happened, even if it hasn’t happened to you , yet. The words “fear not” are used at least eighty times in the Bible. Humanity has always known fear. Humanity will always know fear . There will always be some things that hurt us. There will always be some things that can go wrong. Storms come, but m oney does not. Health falters, and families can fall apart. Humanity has always known fear. Humanity will always know fear -unless humanity comes to accept God’s promise s . We are transient beings, too often, putting trust in transient things. God is eternal and He says fear not. Isaiah 43:1 “Don’t fear,...
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You are beautiful

In the things we choose to surround us.   In things that are outside of us; we often seek the beautiful.  We value it. We cherish it. We try to emulate it.  In beauty we see all things good. Imperfection is a loss of opportunity. “It” could have been better. We see imperfection as a mistake. She/He should have done this or that instead. We see imperfection as a failure. It is wrong. It has no value. Let’s throw it out. We see the imperfections in ourselves the same way. ...but God made us in his image. (Genesis 1:27) “ So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” ... and like the psalmist we can say (Psalm 139: 18 ) “ I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” We struggle to find the good in what we call our imperfections. We can cherish our objects far more than ourselves. We can cherish our cell phones more than ourselves! When we do, so often then, our d...
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