Good morning to everyone. Grace and peace be with you.
My body aches today. Today, I am realizing that there was a very good reason I took the inside job and not the outside job. Today, my body is reminding me that I have put on a lot of poundage and age. Today, my body is also telling me that even though I am not as young and in shape as I once was, that I can still get out and move and do what needs to be done. I will feel the change in muscle usage, but I still can make things happen. I guess that reason, when I was a toddler, when a little boy was crawling, and I wasn’t yet, set a fire in me that will never go out … there is nothing I can’t do if I set my mind to do it. (Except a cartwheel … those escape my abilities.)
I was reading an article this morning about Amy Grant. That in the 80s she was the hottest Christian artist ticket and when she came out with a song in the 90s, every church that raised her to the rafters proclaimed that she had ‘changed sides’. Years later, in an interview, she was asked about that timeline in her life, her response, “I don’t think God lives on a shelf.”.
As I was reading that article, my mind was sent back to my childhood and I remember a dear friend saying that Amy was lost. I have never been one to really get caught up in celebrity status issues. It has not been my area of knowledge that I felt I needed to have. Then, while typing my opening paragraph, Saul of Tarsus came to mind…about the article. Now, if you have been with me for any length of time, this should not surprise you … my mind is a virtual squirrel’s nest of ‘yep’.
If you recall, Saul was very much loved by the church. He was doing what ‘they’ thought was prim and proper. He was calling out and judging the Christians because they were not following the church’s rule of law. The church … then … then Saul met Jesus. Saul had a close encounter of the Lord kind on the road to Damascus. Saul was changed forever and it made the church extremely upset with him.
In the 80s, all of Amy’s music mentioned the Father in some form or another, but when she released a playful song about finding essentially her soul mate, with no mention of God, she opened a door to millions of others who would never have given her music a second thought. She essentially started reaching souls that were beyond her grasp before. But, because it was a ‘pop’ song, the church got upset with her. They warned the youth to be wary of one who has strayed away because she no longer met what they considered to be godly.
My question is this: how many people heard that one song, then went looking for other music that she had made, and were changed?
Much like Saul/Paul … he changed when he had his encounter and he reached many more for the Kingdom than he ever would have as his original path was leading him. Sometimes, we need to walk the path we are supposed to walk, regardless of what others think. We must step out in faith and listen to our specific calling. It is difficult, but if you are being led to do something or walk a certain way, you feel it in your soul that is God, then have the faith and courage to follow His leading. It more than likely will be difficult because when the enemy sees your faith, he will throw the church at you. Stand your ground and move forward with the power of Christ upon you.
Be blessed today my friends.
***I can do everything through him who gives me strength. – Philippians 4:13
My body aches today. Today, I am realizing that there was a very good reason I took the inside job and not the outside job. Today, my body is reminding me that I have put on a lot of poundage and age. Today, my body is also telling me that even though I am not as young and in shape as I once was, that I can still get out and move and do what needs to be done. I will feel the change in muscle usage, but I still can make things happen. I guess that reason, when I was a toddler, when a little boy was crawling, and I wasn’t yet, set a fire in me that will never go out … there is nothing I can’t do if I set my mind to do it. (Except a cartwheel … those escape my abilities.)
I was reading an article this morning about Amy Grant. That in the 80s she was the hottest Christian artist ticket and when she came out with a song in the 90s, every church that raised her to the rafters proclaimed that she had ‘changed sides’. Years later, in an interview, she was asked about that timeline in her life, her response, “I don’t think God lives on a shelf.”.
As I was reading that article, my mind was sent back to my childhood and I remember a dear friend saying that Amy was lost. I have never been one to really get caught up in celebrity status issues. It has not been my area of knowledge that I felt I needed to have. Then, while typing my opening paragraph, Saul of Tarsus came to mind…about the article. Now, if you have been with me for any length of time, this should not surprise you … my mind is a virtual squirrel’s nest of ‘yep’.
If you recall, Saul was very much loved by the church. He was doing what ‘they’ thought was prim and proper. He was calling out and judging the Christians because they were not following the church’s rule of law. The church … then … then Saul met Jesus. Saul had a close encounter of the Lord kind on the road to Damascus. Saul was changed forever and it made the church extremely upset with him.
In the 80s, all of Amy’s music mentioned the Father in some form or another, but when she released a playful song about finding essentially her soul mate, with no mention of God, she opened a door to millions of others who would never have given her music a second thought. She essentially started reaching souls that were beyond her grasp before. But, because it was a ‘pop’ song, the church got upset with her. They warned the youth to be wary of one who has strayed away because she no longer met what they considered to be godly.
My question is this: how many people heard that one song, then went looking for other music that she had made, and were changed?
Much like Saul/Paul … he changed when he had his encounter and he reached many more for the Kingdom than he ever would have as his original path was leading him. Sometimes, we need to walk the path we are supposed to walk, regardless of what others think. We must step out in faith and listen to our specific calling. It is difficult, but if you are being led to do something or walk a certain way, you feel it in your soul that is God, then have the faith and courage to follow His leading. It more than likely will be difficult because when the enemy sees your faith, he will throw the church at you. Stand your ground and move forward with the power of Christ upon you.
Be blessed today my friends.
***I can do everything through him who gives me strength. – Philippians 4:13
Good morning to everyone. Grace and peace be with you.
My body aches today. Today, I am realizing that there was a very good reason I took the inside job and not the outside job. Today, my body is reminding me that I have put on a lot of poundage and age. Today, my body is also telling me that even though I am not as young and in shape as I once was, that I can still get out and move and do what needs to be done. I will feel the change in muscle usage, but I still can make things happen. I guess that reason, when I was a toddler, when a little boy was crawling, and I wasn’t yet, set a fire in me that will never go out … there is nothing I can’t do if I set my mind to do it. (Except a cartwheel … those escape my abilities.)
I was reading an article this morning about Amy Grant. That in the 80s she was the hottest Christian artist ticket and when she came out with a song in the 90s, every church that raised her to the rafters proclaimed that she had ‘changed sides’. Years later, in an interview, she was asked about that timeline in her life, her response, “I don’t think God lives on a shelf.”.
As I was reading that article, my mind was sent back to my childhood and I remember a dear friend saying that Amy was lost. I have never been one to really get caught up in celebrity status issues. It has not been my area of knowledge that I felt I needed to have. Then, while typing my opening paragraph, Saul of Tarsus came to mind…about the article. Now, if you have been with me for any length of time, this should not surprise you … my mind is a virtual squirrel’s nest of ‘yep’.
If you recall, Saul was very much loved by the church. He was doing what ‘they’ thought was prim and proper. He was calling out and judging the Christians because they were not following the church’s rule of law. The church … then … then Saul met Jesus. Saul had a close encounter of the Lord kind on the road to Damascus. Saul was changed forever and it made the church extremely upset with him.
In the 80s, all of Amy’s music mentioned the Father in some form or another, but when she released a playful song about finding essentially her soul mate, with no mention of God, she opened a door to millions of others who would never have given her music a second thought. She essentially started reaching souls that were beyond her grasp before. But, because it was a ‘pop’ song, the church got upset with her. They warned the youth to be wary of one who has strayed away because she no longer met what they considered to be godly.
My question is this: how many people heard that one song, then went looking for other music that she had made, and were changed?
Much like Saul/Paul … he changed when he had his encounter and he reached many more for the Kingdom than he ever would have as his original path was leading him. Sometimes, we need to walk the path we are supposed to walk, regardless of what others think. We must step out in faith and listen to our specific calling. It is difficult, but if you are being led to do something or walk a certain way, you feel it in your soul that is God, then have the faith and courage to follow His leading. It more than likely will be difficult because when the enemy sees your faith, he will throw the church at you. Stand your ground and move forward with the power of Christ upon you.
Be blessed today my friends.
***I can do everything through him who gives me strength. – Philippians 4:13
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