Did I do it out of Love or because I was suppose to?

Today our launch team met at a local park in wilmington not knowing that we were about to experience a divine opportunity. After arriving at the park we noticed that some people were hanging out in the pavilion we had rented. We eventually found out they were homeless people who hung out there most weekends. We did out nice little churchy thing and fed them our leftovers which I am sure for a while made us or at least me feel good about myself until now. As I have sat here and reflected on this good deed, I had to ask myself a really tough question. Did I (we) do it because we genuinely loved those people or because it just was the good thing to do? Maybe I am being a little hard on myself but more than anything my desire is to be like Christ and I know that Christ would genuinely love those people. What I (we) should have done is feed them and then if there is any leftovers eat ourselves. Lord help me to really begin to understand what it means to love people as Christ and put others before myself.

Matthew 25:40 "Whatever you did for the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me."

What will you do? 

What will I do?  If faced with a divine opportunity to LIVE like Christ, and LOVE like Christ?

THE CHOICE IS OURS?

Be Still

Psalm 37:7a "Be still in the presence of the Lord and wait patiently for the Lord to act." God is teaching me about waiting that in my stillness God wants to speak intimately into my life. Lord let me wait on you.

Proclamation, Identity

These two words have been on my mind for the past few weeks. What is my life Proclaiming? Is my life being a proclamation of Christ? Am I proclaiming the person of Christ to my wife, my kids, my friends, and to the people I come into contact with everyday?  My prayer has been that God would use me as a vessel to share the message of Christ with people without hope.  The second word is Identity. So many times my Identity has not been in the person of Christ but in what I am doing. Lord would you continue to remind me that my purest identity is in You. What about you? What are you proclaiming? In who or in what are you finding you Identity? I hope you will wrestle and evaluate these in your own life.