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Jesus, Love God & Love people.

Since as far as I can remember, Christians (just as much as the next guy) are labeled. They’re labeled for not drinking, not cursing, not clubbing, not having sex like crazy, not cheating, not doing all that stuff that we (me included) were told not to do. Which lead me to think man, we are perceived a lot by the world by the things we don’t do rather than by the things we do. Which also I personally believe is true with the church.The church of today is known for the things it does not do rather than the thing it does do.And the reality of it, its justifiable, a lot of the Christians today are focused on only half of what their lives are supposed to be, they are forgetting of all the things that through God’s grace we are able to do.

I get to hear a lot of testimonies from people, and usually the story goes like this: I was living the worldy life like crazy, I was out partying every night, and then bam!! I got saved. That’s it, end of story. We are seeing a lot of Christians today that fail to identify who they are in Christ, even though we find in the Bible almost 100 times in the new testament who we are in Christ.

I want to be known for the things that I do rather than what I don’t, I want to serve Jesus with my actions, rather than hope for others to see His awesomeness by my morals.

God really struck a chord with me last year by opening my eyes when someone for the first time asked me what was my dream job, never before for some reason had i been asked that question. And I didn’t honestly have that answer at first, I had to think about it for a minute. Now since I was a teenager I have worked, thats what I’ve done and thats what I look forward to do, but I have never thought about having a dream job. When I thought inthat minute about an answer for this, I guess by that point in my life the Holy Spirit had done a work within me that made answer, “I guess that Loving God & people, I don’t have a dream job but if I am able to do that I’ll be happy.” And even the statement threw me off, cause I could feel the reality of 2 Corinthians 5:17 in my life, and something that wasn’t there before the Spirit had placed there.

And it all just clicked. I know what God wants me to do, I had a clear vision, make my life about Jesus, Love God & Love people.

Smart old me then thought, what a doofus, those are the two greatest commandments!! I’ve heard them so much, but I’ve never made it my personal goal to make them my life’s mission, I have to own up to those, forget about all the other specifics, Jesus said those are the most important, I gotta focus on those two and all those other ones, like He said will fall right under those. I then read into it, and when I read into it, Jesus cross referenced all over the Bible when He stated those two greatest commandments. Deutoronomy 6.5, Leviticus 19.18, Matthew 19.19, Matthew 22.39, Mark 12.31, Romans 13.9, Galatians 5.14, James 2.8 and so on, and that only specifically on this statement, all other commandments in the Bible then hinge on these two big ones that He stated.

But then I focused on that word Love. And one of the privileges, one of the perks that we as people that know God are able through the Bible to redeem that word from what this world has made it. God is Love. His Love for us is the perfect verbalization of what that word is. What happened in thatcrosssplit the history in half by the biggest wave of Love this world has ever seen.

And Love as a Christian is the best thing I’ve got to let the world know about Jesus, at the end of 1 Corinthians 13 (the most popular scripture in weddings) it literally says that there is faith, there is hope, and there is Love, but out of these three the greatest, is Love.

The passage within this chapter, the passage read wedding after wedding, has been taken by man and made cute, sappy, romantic and borderline cheesy. Far from what it was written to describe. What I also needed it to describe to understand the verb of what my personal vision was. And to redeem this beautiful scripture, I have to read it having the Cross in the forefront of my mind.

I want you to do the same, I want you to think about what drove Jesus to get on that cross. Where did He get the strength and will to do what He knew His father had sent Him to do. He was beaten, ridiculed, spat on, disrespected, betrayed, so many things, add to that His friends watching Him, Him feeling compassion for how His friends felt about seeing Him this way. His mother. His mother knowing & watching all of this happen. All this and more in His plate, and yet He looked to a distance with a cross on His back, knowing He had to make it there and suffer the biggest suffering of all, the weight of all our sins. With that picture of Him in my mind, that picture of Him looking afar to Golgotha, where the crosses were set, that’s when that passage really comes to life.

Love is patient, Love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

That day probably people had lost all faith. That day people thought they were hopeless. But one thing wasn’t lost, one thing did prevail, and that one thing was Love…and Love didn’t fail.

Posted 4 months ago — 2 notes

Dear Starbucks,
i got your letter in the mail the other day, i miss you as well, i know i havent passed for a while, but it isnt because of anything youve done it has been due to the decision i took of taking some time off. its me, its nothing youve done nor is because of any baristas not preparing a beverage well, they always prepare them exquisitely.
i will be going back to my usual couple of visits a week tasting your delicious mixtures of God’s amazing creation this saturday.

thanks for your concern & see you soon,
muppet.

P.S. say hi to Pilon & Bustelo for me, theyre missed. tell ‘em ill be back as well..

Posted 8 months ago — 4 notes