My dearest friend has been working as an interim teacher for a teacher who had cancer. The teacher was our age and after one year lost her battle with cancer. SHE WAS MY AGE!! I'm sure she had dreams of being married and having children. I'm sure she had hopes for her student's success..... SHE WAS MY AGE! I'm sure if you had asked her 2 years ago where she would be in the next five years she wouldn't have thought she would have been battling a terminal illness. Oh that I may live each day with purpose, that I would not be so selfish and only think of myself.... Lord, teach me to number my days!
James 4:13-14
Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
The second event is the controversy surrounding Miss California USA and her answer in the pageant about marriage being between a man and a woman. It grieved my heart the way that the media and people treated her because she was unafraid to speak up for what she believed in. I commend her for her boldness and her willingness to put the crown on the line! Dr. James Dobson interviewed her for the Focus on the Family broadcast this week. I listened to it and was very deeply convicted. Am I that bold in my life? Not very many of us will have that huge of an audience to proclaim our beliefs and our Saviour to, but we do have people around us each and everyday. Am I bold enough to proclaim Jesus to those around me? Oh that I would be unashamed of the gospel and the very Word that is the foundation of my life.
My friends there is something in my spirit that is uneasy about the world I am living in right now. In my workplace I see the affects of sin running its course in the lives of my students due to decisions their parents are making and I also see this in the behaviors of my co-workers. And as I turn on the news each day and see how sin is glorified in our mainstream media it makes me want to vomit.
I love the way the Message writes 1 Peter 2:11-12:
"Friends, this world is not your home, so don't make yourselves cozy in it. Don't indulge your ego at the expense of your soul. Live an exemplary life among the natives so that your actions will refute their prejudices. Then they'll be won over to God's side and be there to join in the celebration when He arrives."
Are you cozy in your sin? I know that I have been and it is time for some uprooting and repentence and a turn back to my First love! I want to be salt and light and different, but am I too cozy that those around cannot see that there is something different about me?
1 comments:
such a good post, Karoline!
Thankful for that reminder
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