Zebra Ministries
Welcome to the herd!
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. Hebrews 10:24-25
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. Hebrews 10:24-25
Monday, February 13, 2017
Good morning
Zebras,
A few random
thoughts:
Be careful
about bragging, humility is huge with God.
Luke 14:8–9: “When
someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for a
person more distinguished than you may have been invited. If so, the host who
invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this man your seat.’ Then, humiliated, you will have to take the
least important place.”
No one really
thinks they are lukewarm because we compare themselves to other Christians. But
the standard isn’t “others” it is Jesus Christ.
John 14:30–31:
“I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming.
He has no hold on me, but the world must learn that I love the Father and that
I do exactly what my Father has commanded me.”
Philippians
2:8: “And being found in appearance as a
man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross!”
“Obedience unto
death” that’s the standard.
We waste a lot
of time focused on other people’s sins.
Matthew 7:3–5: “Why
do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention
to the plank in your own eye? You
hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see
clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”
And if the
world isn’t interested in our God, maybe it’s because we are bad
advertisements. Originally written to the Jews but it could just as easily
apply to us: Do those of us who brag on the love and grace of God, dishonor His
name by refusing to pass it on?
Romans 2:23–24: “You who brag about the law, do you dishonor
God by breaking the law? As it is written:
“God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
Love,
Jill
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