We live in a celebrity Olympic society. We want to follow successful people, intertwine our stories with theirs. Rub noses. People don't want to follow nobodies. I wonder what God thinks of all of this? Do we follow Him or follow success?
I Cor 1:4 I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in Him in all speech and all knowledge, so that you were not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
God is faithful while we are not. He called us. He will do it. No divisions. No quarrels. Some say, I follow ________. Others say, I follow ________. We follow no man but our Christ. Where we have put people on pedestals, God have mercy!
The talk about divisions is what stopped me in today's readings. We get hung up on the little things so often. I seem to care too much about a small injustice and not enough about the major crises in the world.
ReplyDeleteNo Baptists, or Episcopalians, or Methodists, but one people called to serve one God, because of Christ's work on the Cross. Not Republican or Democrat, slave or freed man, white collar or blue collar, but equal in His Eyes. It's the big Stuff that matters--are our hearts repentant? Are our minds focused on the eternal things? Is He bigger than any other thing occupying our minds and hearts?
I love the words "to us who are being saved" below. It means that we are a beautiful work in progress.
"For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God." Amen