So I went with Clay and Brad the other night witnessing and we were waiting at the crosswalk to go over Oak street when 4 girls caming jogging up behind us and stopped. I decided to teach them about what life is all about for the few minutes we had. So in order to start up a Spiritual conversation I showed them my curved illusions tract. It was great way to switch to Spiritual and they soon all got into what I was talking about. They share their thoughts about God and I got to tell them what the Bible, which was the first thing to talk about the eternal God, says about God. They were all so very interested and I got to ask them if they knew if they would go to Heaven when they died. They each answered "no" and I was soon able to go through the whole law and the grace of Jesus Christ and explain to them that no Bible verse says to ask Jesus into your heart, it says to repent (turn) from your sin (the thing that separates you from God) and take up your cross daily to follow Jesus. Mandy and Aubray, the two twins with them told me that they had wanted a relationship with Jesus but didn't every truly feel like they had one. They said that they now understood the Gospel and were going to help each other to follow after Christ everyday from that point on. I then got to talk to a guy named Chris who said you couldn't be sure of salvation and I shared John 3:16 emphasizing WILL NOT perish but have eternal life and he understood. I also got to talk to three other people who claimed Christianity and understood the whole Gospel. The guy of the group cussed a lot and said that though everyone has a conscience to know things are bad, they don't see that things are bad unless they grew up with parents who said it was. I asked, "what about raping children?" and he said that even that was something some people don't know is bad. At this statement, the girls were yelling at him that "Yes, everyone knows thats bad!" He said that he would stick to what he thought and as I was walking away, he told cussed and said that now everytime he did, he would feel bad...to which I said, "Good, that means that you are starting to see your sin as God does." God is good and I feel that this semester is gonna be amazing if we continue to pursue in obedience.
An old country song goes like this: “Lord, it’s hard to be humble, when you’re perfect in every way.” Most of us would not put it so bluntly, but we all find it hard to be humble. The problem with us is that we forget who we are in the grand scheme of things. We must remember that we are but dust created in the image of God and made to display His worth. One particular passage of Scripture is thoroughly helpful in turning our eyes off our own navels and onto God’s glory: Philippians 2:5-11. By meditating on the gospel in this text, even the most prideful among us will be leveled low. To stay in a humbled position... 1. Feast your eyes on the matchless glory of Christ (vv. 5-6) “ Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped …” Paul ascends to breathe the air of Mount Everest in this ancient hymn of the church. He speaks of Jesus’ divinity and equal status as God ...
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