Hey, Y'all,
Hope your week's coming to a successful conclusion with a restful weekend on the horizon. Today's RST is brief but powerful and is based on a statement by Jon Walker of PurposeDrivenLife.com...
We may be good teachers or we may be bad teachers,
but teachers we all are.
Got me thinking...those are words to live by, and really where the rubber meets the road for this whole "Christianity-as-philosophy-of-life thing"--i.e., the counter-intuitive and totally revolutionary 'kingdom' Christ demonstrated and set as our example: overcome evil with good (not escalation), selfishness with selflessness (not more self-seeking narcissism), loving our enemies (not just our loved ones) and doing good to them that hate us (not just those who do good to us). Pretty hardcore, huh?
And check out the last part of Galatians 5 (hey! gotta get out a quick 'oft-discussed-passage-shout-out' to the fellas from the men's group--can't wait to get goin' again this summer, brothers! OK, back to our regularly scheduled RST) for a quick summary of the life lived with me at the helm versus the one I'm aspiring to live with God on the throne: that's some stuff there. Hmmm...also reminds me of a favorite (and sometimes painfully convicting) saying:
People may forget what you said,
but you can bet they'll remember what you did.
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control--regardless of circumstances...
How am I doing?
You've been prayed for today...
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