God is so cool. I mean, it's the tiny little things that He does that I think I usually enjoy the most because they're so unexpected. Like this morning, as I was going to read about who knows what, and I turned right at this message in THE MESSAGE//REMIX, which is pretty cool in itself. But anyhoo, it's so well laid out that I don't even need to elaborate on it. It speaks just as we do:
Well, now is the right time to listen, the day to be helped. Don't put it off; don't frustrate God's work by showing up late, throwing a question mark over everything we're doing. Our work as God's servants gets validated -or not- in the details. People are watching us as we stay at our post, alertly, unswervingly . . . in hard times, tough times, bad times; when we're beaten up, jailed, and mobbed, working hard, working late, working without eating; with pure heart, clear head, steady hand; in gentleness, holiness, and honest love; when we're telling the truth, and when God's showing his power; when we're doing our best setting things right; when we're praised, and when we're blamed; slandered, and honored; true to our word, though distrusted; ignored by the world, but recognized by God; terrifically alive, though rumored to be dead [!!! I love that one!!!]; beaten within an inch of our lives, but refusing to die; immersed in tears, yet always filled with deep joy; living on handouts, yet enriching many; having nothing, having it all.
Dear, dear Corinthians, I can't tell you how much I long for you to enter this wide-open, spacious life. We didn't fence you in. The smallness you feel comes from within you. Your lives aren't small, but you're living them in a small way. I'm speaking as plainly as I can and with great affection. Open up your lives. Live openly and expansively!
2 Corinthians 6:3-13
Wow! What a word! I have nothing to say. What an encouragement.
Do you feel it?!
Have a blessed one. THE MESSAGE//REMIX also says:
READ. THINK. PRAY. LIVE.
Sometimes we forget the "think." Sometimes we forget to even "read." But when we do the first three, WE LIVE!!!
By Grace, Tara K
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