1 Corinthians 2: 4 - 5
4 And my speech and my preaching
were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration
of the Spirit and of power,
5 that your faith should not be
in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
A close
colleague in ministry posted this note on their Facebook page recently. (And no, I’m not a Facebook person,
and I strongly doubt that I will ever become one)
“Destination
Addiction: The idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job, or even
the next partner.
Until we
give up the idea that happiness is somewhere else, we’ll never find it where we
are.”
I wonder if
that’s what’s become of the church?
Is the first
thing we think of is fleeing where we are, because we think getting our own way
somewhere else is the answer?
My
daughter-in-love told me a story yesterday, about her precious grandparents.
They have
been in the same church for many-many years.
Over the
course of the last ten years, things have been turbulent to one degree or
another in their home church
40 years ago
though, they made a covenant with God to stay and serve in that church, no
matter what. That had to have been hard.
And in that
covenant, God has been faithful to make things right again in their place of
worship.
They trusted
not in the power of men, but in the superlative power of the Most High God.
I think old
people have so much experience in life experiences.
Maybe we
should watch them more, we might just learn a thing or two.
Are you
disgruntled where you are in life?
Maybe we
need to make our lives about God again, and not in our selfish selves…
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