Zebra Ministries

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