What makes today a different day, What makes what you are doing today different? What are you doing today to make a difference? We all start out each day with the same 24 hours, but what are we doing in our hours to make a change. So many times we go through our days just out of routine, we go through the motions. Life just becomes the same ol’ different day. But it is when we choose to go outside of our normal routine, step out of our comfort zones, that we change our lives, we change the lives of the ones we love, and we change the lives of all of those around us.
Take the time each day, even if it is just one small thing, it could make a huge difference in someone else’s life.
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So I’ve been sitting on this one for a while now and just now found the time to write it out.
In our lives we are defined by where we come from and the things that we have done, either by others or it is how we define ourselves. But when we look at what God calls us to, it is to leave our old selves, leave our pasts behind us, and follow Him as a new person. We go to God broken and weighed down by our guilt and shame, but we leave different. We leave walking closer to God, walking whole and new, without the burdens and hurts.
We find ourselves though holding on, we only know ourselves as the person with this problem or that vice. It’s hard to let go and change. It’s hard to admin that you have faults… What is someone else going to think… Will people still like me if I change… These are the questions that go through our heads. But you have to change, you have to come as you are but leave different.
It is the leaving different part, living different, being different part that is the challenge. The latest series at our church has been on cleaning out your soul and doing all of these things above. But one point that our pastor made this past weekend was that so many of us, “put on our church face,” we have things that we hide in our lives that we don’t want others to know about, that continually hold us back from being the person God wants us to be. But it is also putting on this “church face” this act, that make so many people think of Christians as hypocrites.
So I pray that you will leave different and stay different. Think about what you can do that will show those around you that your different. What can you do that will show God to those around you and what sets you apart?
When the path you walk always leads back to yourself, you never get anywhere – Oogway.
Anyone that has read any of my posts knows I find inspiration in the most random places. The quote above is a prime example. This weekend the munchkin, saw Kung Fu Panda as we were flipping through Netflix. It was in the short Secretes of the Masters, that I heard the above quote and thought that it was a great thought.
Then at church, our pastor was recapping the past few weeks in the series we were on, and mentioned the service 2 weeks ago that was about attitude adjustments and rejoicing. Since we weren’t there that week, I went and pulled the podcast and started listening to it. The main point was that you cannot be self-centered and still be truly joyful in your serving. While you maybe serving God, but if you are doing it for the wrong reasons you are not going to get the results that you are looking for.
Philippians 2:3-4 3 Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. 4 Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.
We go through life, looking for what we deserve. We, I’m lumping all Americans into this, have a feeling of entitlement. I did the work, I should get the credit and the glory. I’m not saying that we should all just say nothing matters and if you want to steal my work and call it yours that fine. What I’m saying is that we are so lucky as Christians, the God does not give us what we deserve, death, he gives us something better, that we cannot even begin to fathom, eternal life.
I am a firm believer in the idea of you get what you put in, if you work hard, and do something that you would be proud to call your own, you will be proud of it. By the same token, if you just don’t give a (insert your own word here), it will show in your actions, and in your life. While you may not get the same benefit or payment as some else, if you did your best and left nothing behind, you can walk away proudly.
It is when we give all that we have, like the small boy who had 5 small loaves of bread and 2 fish, and step back, letting God grab what we have to give, and make something amazing out of it that He gets the glory. One of my favorite songs right now, is Background by Lecrea, and it talks about not needing to be in the spot light and letting God be in the forefront. If you let God have the starring role in your life, the overflow that falls onto you, will be more than enough.
Ramblings of a Christian Father 