Did I serve Jesus Christ this week? Yaye or naye? Did I live for Him this week or did I choose to live for myself?
This blog today serves as a gentle reminder and remembrance of living mylife everywhere I go, with every breath I take, living for Him.
The other day, at the gym, before clocking in, I saw a tall man, with crutches. I felt for him, because I can only imagine what he might be feeling like, using crutches for walking. And, he looked like a middle-aged man, not too young, but also not super-old.
As we passed by each other, I greeted him with a friendly hello, and remarked "Jesus Christ loves you". This statement seemed to confuse and perplex him a bit, which is understandable. We don't usually greet each other this way in our social circles. And, it even surprised me because "it just came out" (those words). What? Why do you say that? I didn't get a chance to follow up the conversation with that man, but I hope I gave him some food for thought. I hope that if he is still redeemable, that maybe he will give his life to Christ, or return to Christ. I don't know his heart or mind, but God the All-Knowing One, knows this man's condition.
Spontaneous conversations with the Uber driver(s). I try to pray and ask God for what words to speak when I'm in the Uber cars. In the natural, I generally just want to "keep to myself". But, God might, just maybe, has another agenda for me! It may be that God wants me to OPEN MY MOUTH and SAY SOMETHING gospel-oriented. So, I've been practicing.
One time, one of the drivers had a biblical name, so I made a comment about THAT. That opened the door for me asking him what his path of faith he was on, and I got to listen to HIS STORY. He opened up to me that he was raised in a religious AND non-religious home: one parent being atheist and the other parent being Christian, he confessed to me he ended up AGNOSTIC but "missed some of the church practices". He opened up that he meets with friends for Bible study, and that he can't believe that nothing's out there (earth came from somewhere), but that he was OPEN (to learning truth, I presume?).
At the very least, I can and have ended my Uber rides with a "Jesus Christ loves you".
Right now I am in a season of intentionally reading the New Testament in 90 days, a reading challenge I created for myself as an intentional way of getting myself into the Word (Holy Bible, Scriptures) on a regular, consistent basis. And, I am thinking of ways I can read (and study?) the Old Testament next. And, I have never read the Apocrypha books except Enoch once only recently. I would like to get myself into those as well, but time. So, we'll see what I will and will not be able to get into within a year's time.
Part of me would love to be like Mary, sitting at Jesus's feet, listening and learning from Him. And yet, I am also called, at the same time, to be a do-er of His Word. I am called to use my gifts, talent and life for Him. So, I am eagerly praying what and how I might do that? I started a YouTube community page, inviting people to read through the New Testament with me in 90 days. One person has stepped up and responded that they would like to do this also. So I am typing the devotional questions for people to go through at their own pace. And, if the Bible reading leads them into the arms of Jesus, then that would be a great thing! Jesus said in John 3:16, "for God so loved the world that HE GAVE his one and only Son so that whoever believes in Him would not perish but have eternal life". Time is so so short now! It's time to repent of our old and sinful ways, and turn to Christ for forgiveness of sin, and to go and sin no more.
Thank you for taking time to read this post, if you've made it this far!
