Is your life on the brink of a major blowout? We watch the tread on our tires. What about the tread of our lives?
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I hate Christmas, and a part of me really means it. Not because of Jesus, but because of what I make it. My madness doesn't take from its meaning though, especially as the story conveys critical information we need about the God who wrote it.
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Standing in front of the coffee maker this morning, I found myself praying for the wedding I’d be attending in a few hours. The mama and the bride especially were on my mind. As I talked to the Lord and asked Him to bless and pour out great favor on every detail of the wedding, several things occurred to me:
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When Jesus needed a donkey for His triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, He loosed what was needed for the Father's kingdom plan. Perhaps He is doing the same today, using His disciples, just like He did then, entrusting and enlisting them to loose and bring to Him what He has need of, because that's the way He has chosen to accomplish His purposes and plans. Back then it was a donkey. Maybe today it's a person. It could even be us!
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Social media can be a trap that leads to insecurity and depression, or it can be a tool of encouragement and blessing. Like GPS provides invaluable direction for getting where we want to go, so is MPS a way we can navigate social media while protecting the direction God wants us to go.
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Why do we need to be broken over our sin? God wants us to rend our hearts and not just tear our garments in some form of outward behavior modification while we retain what we want of our heart because we think it serves us better. He wants a broken and contrite heart. Because a broken heart beats inside a broken vessel, and only broken vessels are useful in the Potter’s hand: His light shining and living water pouring forth from the very cracks of our weakness in order to expose His strength. What is it going to take?
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