Imagine yourself in New York City in the middle of a crazy rush hour mob and you just realized that your going the wrong way. The current has taken you many blocks past your destination and now you have a choice! Do you continue to go down this road because your afraid to turn around and face the crowd or do you make the choice to turn around and fight the current to find your way back?Be Different!Fight the current, turn upstream, dont be afraid to hit the brakes and bust a U-Turn.
Jesus Christ came and showed us the way to encounter the rush hour mob with confidence. Jesus was not ashamed of being different he wasn't worried about fitting in, being rejected, or mocked in fact he promised it for all his followers (2 Timothy 3:12). However, with that promise he also adds the promise of a future, a hope, and an abundant joyful life(Jeremiah 29:11; John 10:10) something far beyond anything the world can manufacture.
Begin to fight the current, turn from the ways of the world and experience the life you were always intended for. While the world struggles to fit in begin to standout! John 13:34, "A new commandment I give to you, that you love another: just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another. By this people will know that you are my disciples".
Amen Charlie,
ReplyDeleteWe should never compare ourselves to or try to be like the world: when we do we are looking at a big pile of useless, disgusting junk and saying "I want to look like that", then we think were "cool", but in the end we will ultimately find out that God was offering us a Kingdom of Glory for us to be clothed with honor, which we ourselves being depraved despise. We are fools in and of our own selves, but God who is Rich in mercy gave the one He loved most to be spit on and ridiculed and slain that we might be saved that we could have faith see our sin and turn towards Him at all. (Hebrews 11:6)(Romans 8:15)
We are to be set apart (1 Peter 2:9) To look different and act different (Matthew 7:16)
"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect." Romans 12:2
May God strengthen us to fight the tide
Love you Brother,
Brad