One of my favorite verses in the Bible is in Job…..after experiencing incredible persecution and trauma…..Job responds like a champion:

 

Job 1 20 At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship 21 and said:  “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart.  The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be praised.”

 

It is easy to live for God when life is easy.

It is easy to spout out scripture in times where it convicts us.

It is easy to worship when we have it easy and when all the things that we desire line up just the way that we want them to……

 

But life is not always easy.

 

A more poignant reality for all of us is that we live in a culture that has forgotten the Lord…..and when tragedy hits, our focus goes from ignoring Him to blaming Him…..

 

So today I encourage all of us……

 

Remember Your Place

We have an opportunity in front of us……and that is the chance to get ourselves, and all we love, into heaven.

 

He has created us to have eternal peace and hope and relationship.

 

He has created us to be free from the binds of Satan, and sin, and death.

 

He has created us to obey….to actually follow all the things that He has given us with the covering of Christ.

 

He has created us to worship….to actually raise our hands to heaven and cry out in worship.  To give Him His place above all things.

 

He has created us to forgive….to clothe ourselves with Jesus and to let go of all the baggage that can actually bring us to our knees and cripple us.

 

He has created us to serve….to love others.  To give our time, talents and money that others might come to know Him.  And to do what Jesus said would make us great.  “Who wants to be great among you?….must be a servant….for the Son of man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to offer His life as a ransom for many.”  Mark 10

He created us to REMEMBER OUR PLACE

He created us to Be Who He Has Called Us To Be

And in doing just that we begin to LIVE…..

 

In The Name of the Father and the

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

 

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Coach J