Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People

by Bob Goff

We’ll become in our lives whoever the people we love the most say we are.

how we treat the trolls in our lives that will let us know how far along we are in our faith.

We’re supposed to just love the people in front of us. We’re the ones who tell them who they are.

Most of us have been posers at one time or another, if we’re honest. People who are becoming love stop faking it about who they are and where they are in their lives and their faith.

God isn’t always leading us to the safest route forward but to the one where we’ll grow the most.

We try to make ourselves the hero or the victim of every story. Something goes wrong and we want to be the victim; something goes right and we want to make ourselves the hero. It doesn’t seem to matter which it is as long as we make it all about us. But if we make everything about us, it’ll never be about Jesus.

How is your life working for the people around you?

People will figure out what we really believe by seeing what we actually do.

Jesus reminding me once again to stop laying sod where He’s planting seed in my life. His reason is simple: He’s more interested in making us grow than having us look finished. He wants me to realize I’m just not quite there yet.