This is His Requirement

 Micah 6:8


Seek justice- Love Mercy- Walk Humbly with your God. This is His requirement.

This is not a pick one. This is a pick 3. It is better than any lottery you can ever play because it changes your heart and attitude that you approach people that cross your path each and every day.
When we do as God requires it blesses us and others in our lives.

Seek Justice-  You can see pretty plainly that justice, true justice does not always happen. And God wants us to SEEK or ACT with Justice in mind. Not our interpretation of it but His. Protecting the innocent. Having good morals. Ethics. To make right. Live right.

Love Mercy- A Loyal Love. God showed us mercy while we were still sinners. And Mercy is one of the foundations to God's character. He expects us to show love to other. Jesus DID say. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength AND Love your Neighbor as yourself. We are to be compassionate  and forgiving of others. It is unexpected, unmerited, unearned.

Walk Humbly- Humility is a matter of the heart. It requires a passive and active obedience to God. It is the opposite of proud. A person that is humble holds themselves at lower regards. Not being better than others. 


I heard this once and it makes total sense. The response of a godly heart is outward (do justice), inward (love mercy) and upward (walk humbly).


Which one do you do the most? And which one do you need to work on?

When do we stop talking about this and start doing? I challenge you. I challenge myself. Let's allow Jesus to Radically Transform us in such a way that we don't even have to think about this we just do it with out a thought. It is a part of us.
That same power that Raised Jesus from the grave LIVES IN US. 

Wrap your head around that thought. :)





He loves us

What's Love Got to do with it?

My children, our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action. (1 John 3:18)


And now I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. (John 13:34)


LOVE-  It is talked about  310 times in the Bible. It is the reason God gave us Jesus. Because He loved us.  God's action saved us from hell. Pulled us from the being separated from Him for eternity.  Jesus said to LOVE one another. 

Jesus replied, “‘You must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.” (Matt 22:37)


Notice the red letter from Jesus himself. It was SO important for us to understand that He specifically told us to  LOVE. God and Others. He did not specify WHO.. He said LOVE.  Love does not see skin color, religion, economic back ground, job title. 
LOVE is LOVE. 
This does not mean 'coexist'.. kneel down to others and not serve the LORD YOUR GOD. This mean LOVE. No judgement No walking by someone in need. No 'i will pray for you' and then forget all about them. This is an action! A doing word. 
Love is not a noun. It is a verb. 
James tells us to not just be hearers of the word but to DO. That there is no faith in God without action. And in the following verse he says....  Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world. (James 1:26-27)



Why? Because LOVE , Care, Kindness IS AN ACTION. Jesus spent time with tax collectors, the lowest of the low. And He LOVED them.  He took care of everyone that came to Him. 

Beloved I challenge you. What is your gift? How will you make LOVE an action???
WILL you clean out your closet and get some of your abundance of clothes and give some to the poor? WILL you sit in a nursing home with a perfect strange and play cards with them? WILL you go to the store and pick up some food and water and put them in bags and pass them out to the homeless and hungry? WILL you go to an orphanage and show children with out mothers or fathers the LOVE of our GOD? WILL you knock on your neighbors door with a meal? WILL you stop and talk to others and tell them about JESUS our Savior? WILL you select a tangible thing. ...Some thing you can put your hands on. AND be DOERS of the word. LOVE. 

Jesus spoke on Love more than anything. HE sacrificed Himself because OF LOVE. God so loved us. While we were yet sinners. He gave us Jesus. Who died for us. No Greater love than this!! 

If we do not radically transform OUR own hearts to go out and speak HIS message... Not your pastor's... Not your momma's...  The message of JESUS CHRIST. Then it was all for nothing. We are commanded to do so. Will you do that with me today Beloved? 
Work hard to show the results of your salvation, obeying God with deep reverence and fear. (Philippians 2:12)  The Result?? The over flow of LOVE that you were shown! Spilling over into the lives of others.

You are loved. 
Be Love
Jesus Said LOVE.

How deep the Father's love- Click for Worship Song.

Who is that masked man?

2 Corinthians 4 1-7

Therefore, since God in his mercy has given us this new way, we never give up.  We reject all shameful deeds and underhanded methods. We don’t try to trick anyone or distort the word of God. We tell the truth before God, and all who are honest know this.

 If the Good News we preach is hidden behind a veil, it is hidden only from people who are perishing.  Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.

 You see, we don’t go around preaching about ourselves. We preach that Jesus Christ is Lord, and we ourselves are your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who said, “Let there be light in the darkness,” has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ.
 We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves.

"We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others" 

Brennan Manning

" A counterfeit gospel promotes mask wearing and fills churches with phonies but the true gospel promotes transparency & fills churches with stories of radical transformation"

Unkown

"Many Christians feel broken and angry but don't think they can express these real feelings around others--or to God. So we put on a mask to hide our identity. Feelings of embarrassment and shame make us hide from the One who truly loves us"

Brennan Manning

You have worn a mask for so long, you forgot who you were beneath it.

I do not have it all together. I DO NOT. I believe with out a doubt I am Blessed and Highly favored but it took a long time for me to get to that point. Maturity perhaps. I have gotten to the point when people speak to me about life. Their life. I can hear and see their body language, tones of voice and know that they have their mask on. I know because I have been there. I have sit through sermons on Sunday nodding in approval and yet deep down I was screaming because I did not believe what was being said. I have said no to prayer requests when asked because I was embarrassed as a 'grown' Christian to admit I was struggling.  I have come off 'holier than thou' when discussing a topic purely because I know the Bible. But had not allowed my self to be transformed by it. So when people talk about how they are and start throwing the B.S. I know it is B.S. As a Christian we want to seem we have it ALL TOGETHER but when it comes down to it. We have skeletons in our closets, sin we struggle with, doctrine we can't wrap our heads around and so we slip on a mask to cover our true self. And this is not what He intended for us to do. He intended on us to be transparent and letting HIS light shine through us. To live without fear. To express His love and mercy to others. To transform each others lives with HIS teachings. And we lost it my friends. The evil one has caused shame and fear. Blinded us to the hope we have.  What are we to do?

pull the mask off. admit when we dont have it together. Share with one another. Yoke with Christ and allow him to radically transform us. We are not perfect people. Which is why we need a PERFECT SAVIOR. And what is completely awesome. .HE KNEW WE WOULD NEED HIM!! 

We can't continue to wear a mask. NOT if we want to not only change this world but change ourselves for the great mission our Savior set our feet to.

Take off your mask Beloved. 

Be who God intended.

Love one another and lets walk together to transparent living in Christ