The Marks We Make on Others' Hearts

But we need to balance the fact that we are in the world, but we're not of it. Our heritage is in heaven. We serve a risen savior. That's where we are going. When all this world fades away and and and it evaporates to nothing and God mentioned new heaven and new earth, we are gonna be the inhabitants of it. We know the king of kings and the Lord of Lords. We know the one who knows the future and who holds the present. [00:18:05] (23 seconds)  #NotOfThisWorld

You are a testimony to the people around you. You leave a mark in the soil that people notice, but you need to make sure I need to make sure I am positioned in the right place so that I'm leaving the right mark. Because people will always read your life. And when we commit ourselves to God and say that we are followers of Jesus, they will look at you, They will listen to you, and they will take note of your life experiences. [00:22:14] (39 seconds)  #LiveAsTestimony

So that it's the small adjustments you need to make when you're driving across the field that keeps you on a straight and narrow path. And when you're tempted to watch this or you're tempted to go over there, no. You keep making the small, the fine tuning the adjustments to keep those things in line so that you are leaving them up for everybody else and you're doing what you need to be doing. We do that by refining our conscience, by growing our conscience, by keeping close to God, and by building on what, who God is and what God is doing. [00:26:42] (40 seconds)  #FineTuneFaith

I I don't think that we should alter scripture to fit our circumstance. We need to pray into our circumstance to mold in with scripture, but that means we need to know it. We need to understand it. We need to read it as God intends it to be read. We need to, you know, put down some of our petty things that we we we build stuff around and and unless that's what God wants us to do. We need to be open to what God is saying and what God is doing, but be pragmatically practical in that time. [00:16:08] (31 seconds)  #PrayWithScripture

And that's what I want people to see. Yeah. Things go wrong. Stuff happens, but God knows. God protected. God provided, and God was in the trial and the challenge. And then in living this, in in navigating this, I'm setting a line in the soil that I hope other people could follow when they experience their own unique challenges and trials that come their way. Because you and I [00:23:30] (31 seconds)  #LeaveAMark

Naomi didn't lose her face when tragedy struck several times. Famine, loss of her husband, loss of her two sons, and then the the journey back and and and what that would have entailed. She didn't lose her face, but she was realistic about it too. She was sacrificially generous. In what way was she generous? She could have said, look, the culture of the day means, daughters, you need to stay with me. But no, she said, look, you go back to your family. [00:15:01] (35 seconds)  #ResilientFaith

And let's be honest as Christians, we all have our pet doctrines because we're called to a certain way of being and into a certain way of thinking. We excuse me. If you're an evangelist, you'll see evangelism in everything that you read. If you're into holiness, whatever it is, you we have our own pet theologies, and that's absolutely fine. But let's read scripture in context with the verse around it so that we get a clear understanding of what it's saying, and we don't twist scripture to suit our own ends. [00:06:29] (31 seconds)  #ReadBeyondBias

Because Naomi reaped the reward of all that she'd sown as do you as do I. So I'm gonna have to make sure that we sow good. Naomi lived life with a long view, but she also lived within the moment. And I've got a bit of an illustration which I hope would just help to flesh this out a little bit. Oh, right. Fancy that. This is a green tractor. Green tractor race what? Probably and that there so you have a marker. [00:19:00] (51 seconds)  #SowForTomorrow