I was thinking of some life strife last week – and internally said: “what am I going to do?” – Well, immediately on my wall my eyes caught the visual of a sticker of the word: JESUS.
Yes Jesus – the Word and the Walk and the Way…
If I ask: “What am I going to do?” – If we ask this – well let us BE Jesus in the situation – APPLY Jesus in the moment – APPRECIATE Jesus when we can’t be everything He is – and just DO OUR BEST (and let God take care of the rest)…
Let us offer a Jesus attitude and see Jesus in each other by putting on Jesus filtering glasses of spirit and truth. Offering sacrifice and humility and seasoning plus illuminating the situation with salt and light. Be steadfast as scripture urges.
YUP!
“BE JESUS” means take on the servant role, work at the worst stuff without whining, be available, approachable, and eager – but also accepting of the world’s brokenness that going to hurt but spur us on to keep going.
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“‘APPLY JESUS” – means be a doer – an encourager – a fruit of the spirit display of Galatians 5:22-23: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”
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“APPRECIATE JESUS” because ‘Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.’ 1 Corinthians 13:7-13 NKJV
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DO OUR BEST! because ‘Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night. HE SHALL BE LIKE A TREE PLANTED BY THE RIVERS OF WATER, THAT BRINGS FORTH ITS FRUIT IN ITS SEASON, WHOSE LEAF ALSO SHALL NOT WITHER; AND WHATEVER HE DOES SHALL PROSPER.’ Psalm 1:1-3
This next month of December (can you believe it, time flies) – I will plan a month of scripture – what I realize is lacking when I feel lacking something is SCRIPTURE… I hope to start in Luke – with the birth of Jesus – and see what and where Jesus takes me from there… May we keep a light burning brighter and brighter for Jesus.
Amen
2nd Peter 3:10-18 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
Be Steadfast
Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless; and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation—as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.
You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked; but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
Debbie Upper 