Hey everybody, hope today has gotten off to a great start for you. Today is another day God has given us to live for Him.
What we will each do with it?
The famous missionary martyr, Jim Elliot, said “He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose” and something like the following, my paraphrase 
“Wherever you are, be all there” and “Live to the hilt every situation believed to be the will of God.”
Where does God have you today? Look around and see what He is doing because we can be assured our Lord is always at work!
Shine the light of Christ, a city on a hill cannot be hidden…
The following is something I wrote a few years back and thought I’d share again…
Through the Eyes of God
“‘Go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’ So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, both good and bad, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.” (Matthew22:9-10)
Jesus said heaven will be filled with people from all the ends of the earth. I can only imagine that great multitude standing before the throne praising God as described in Revelation. Believers in Christ from all tribes, peoples, and cultures will be there. Christ does not see color. There are no class distinctions made by Him. He came for all. All includes those people who are steeped in sins that are obvious. All means those who put on a front of holiness and happiness yet are dying inside. All includes those who believe their good moral behavior is what saves them. All includes the rich in their fancy mansions. All includes the poor in some downtrodden village.
Do we see through God’s eyes? Are we afraid to converse with “sinners”? How about those who don’t look like us or talk like us or act like us? Are we able to show them the love of Christ?
Jesus Christ challenges us to not be judgmental. He ate and spoke with the prostitutes, the lepers, the tax collectors, the Samaritans: all those in His day that were shunned as different or sinners. He was not afraid to be around “sinners”.
What a revolutionary thought! In order to reach the lost He took the time to get to know them…. Yet, He said some of them were closer to seeing God than the “religious” Pharisees. Let it not be said of us as Christ followers that we only hang out with ourselves. Churches and campus ministries shouldn’t be “Christian Clubs!”
Am I saying that we should join in when people sin? By no means! Should we be shocked when people who do not know Christ act in sinful ways? No, how else would they act? Let it be our goal to be Christians who love as Christ did, and I believe we will see the results in people coming to know Christ as Savior.
Let us pray to God: Father, we confess our judgmental attitudes. Lord, we confess we are sinners ourselves and in need of your grace! Lord, may we remove the plank from our own eye rather than worrying about the speck in our brother’s. Father, how exciting it is to think of the multitudes of people from all nations who will worship Jesus Christ in heaven. May we reflect that unity now on earth as we spread the Gospel to all we can.
In Jesus’ name, amen.
Grace and Peace,
Brant