I try to be all things to all men. I tend to fail miserably
in that endeavor quite often. I think that if beer had been around in Jesus’
day he would have been a beer drinker. Jesus was not pretentious – and wine was
the only thing to drink in those days. But I can just imagine that he would
have been drinking beer with all those publicans and such.
I went out for a beer recently with a girl from work that I
really like. She is an RN and originally from Canada, and I know that she is not
a Christian. It’s not that she is an atheist or anything like that. She just
doesn’t know anything about God. She told me that her family growing up never
went to church, never prayed or anything. She said that the only thing she
remembers from her childhood about God was when a friend invited her to
vacation bible school and they glued pieces of macaroni onto construction paper
in the form of Jesus’ face. That was the closest thing she had to a religious
education. The only other experience she had was when her son wanted to start
going to church and his friend’s mom called my friend to berate her on her lack
of spiritual direction for her son. I can’t remember the exact words the woman
used but I was horrified when I heard it. It was hateful. My friend told the
woman that her son could make up his own mind, but it certainly did not grow
any desire to know God in my friend. Why would it – when God is then portrayed
as this angry hateful kid’s mom.
Phillip said to Jesus, “Show us the father.” Jesus answered
and said, “He who has seen me has seen the Father”. John 14. As sons of God we
are the only way people can see the Father. I want people to know and
understand the truth – but it is not up to me. I can plant or I can water but
only God can give the increase. There are those that have no love of the truth
– first they will trample on it and then they will turn and rend you. I read an
amazing blog post lately that really put my mind at ease in this category:
The Lord will draw all men to himself and will save all –
each in his own order – and it has nothing to do with me – the Lord will accomplish
it in His timing and not a second before that.
Here is another blog post that I really enjoyed:
Lots of love my friends!
Linda
2 comments:
macaroni and cheesus
funny
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