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Max Lucado
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January 13 - January 13, 2020
What gift are you giving that he did not first give? What truth are you teaching that he didn’t first teach? You love. But who loved you first? You serve. But who served the most? What are you doing for God that God could not do alone? How kind of him to use us.
Blessed is the Christian whose focus is on others. Miserable is the Christian whose focus is on self.
You and I may carry a canteen of water, but we don’t know who is thirsty. For that reason we are called to offer it to everyone.
Were Jesus to enter a room, every eye would turn and every person would stand. We’d wait in line for the chance to hold his hands and touch his feet. No one would miss the opportunity to welcome our Savior.
“In so far as you did this to one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did it to me” (Matt. 25:40
We can do much after we pray, but we can do nothing until we pray. Before we serve, before we teach, before we encourage, we pray.
Our calling is to be an Abraham on behalf of the people in our world. Place yourself between them and
God, and speak up. Be assured, he...
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And the LORD will continually guide you, And satisfy your desire in scorched places, And give strength to your bones; And you will be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water whose waters do not fail. (ISA. 58:10–11 NASB, EMPHASIS MINE)
Your Levi is the person with whom you fundamentally disagree. You follow different value systems. You embrace different philosophies. You adhere to different codes of behavior, dress, and faith.
“Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God” (Rom. 15:7 NIV).
Jesus shared truth but graciously. Jesus offered grace but truthfully. Grace and truth. Acceptance seeks to offer both.
