In my last post I spoke of an incredibly gifted young man with a amazing voice. But that isn't the whole story.
This young man and his good friend stepped out on to the stage in Britain's Got Talent and received a less than stellar welcome. The young man struggles with weight and tends to be shy. He is not a looker and thus did not immediately draw any eyes.
Till he opened his mouth. Then the audience saw a measure of who he really was beneath the shell. The young man and his partner received a standing ovation from everyone including the judges.
Brothers and Sisters, these skins of ours, these shells are our outer appearance and nothing more. They do not dictate the person inside or the gifts that the GOD of all creation bestowed upon us.
Let me drill home the point and make it clear.
He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
This passage was spoken by Isaiah(Isa 53:2-3, NIV) in regards to Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. That ought to give you a clue about how GOD feels about shells.
Ask GOD to show you people the way HE sees them. You will discover wonders unseen to the naked eye.
Friday, March 30, 2012
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Brother's Keeper
Am I my brother's keeper? The famous question asked by Cain. To a sad extent it exists today in our very self-centered societies. We are very me oriented people.
GOD would not have it so. We were built for community and to act as a community. To protect each other and build each other up. We are all living stones in the great temple of our GOD and thus we are to support each other in HIS purposes for each other's lives.
GOD made this abundantly clear in HIS greatest commandment to us. Love the LORD your GOD with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength and to love your neighbor as yourself.
I was blessed yesterday to hear a young man on a British Talent Show. His voice was magnificent and he received a standing ovation. But he in the blurb before the performance let the audience know something. Without his partner's encouragement he would not have the courage to be there.
Now think on that for a second. How many gifts of GOD wait to be revealed because some shy individual waits for an encourager who has not yet stepped to the plate.
We ARE are brother's keepers, ladies and gentlemen. We are here to lift up are fellows so they in turn have the strength to lift up others. And as we make these stands of grace, our names may not be noted but GOD who sees all, blesses us for acting like HIS Son. For Christ lifted us all up to where we could never reach on our own.
May GOD Bless you.
GOD would not have it so. We were built for community and to act as a community. To protect each other and build each other up. We are all living stones in the great temple of our GOD and thus we are to support each other in HIS purposes for each other's lives.
GOD made this abundantly clear in HIS greatest commandment to us. Love the LORD your GOD with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength and to love your neighbor as yourself.
I was blessed yesterday to hear a young man on a British Talent Show. His voice was magnificent and he received a standing ovation. But he in the blurb before the performance let the audience know something. Without his partner's encouragement he would not have the courage to be there.
Now think on that for a second. How many gifts of GOD wait to be revealed because some shy individual waits for an encourager who has not yet stepped to the plate.
We ARE are brother's keepers, ladies and gentlemen. We are here to lift up are fellows so they in turn have the strength to lift up others. And as we make these stands of grace, our names may not be noted but GOD who sees all, blesses us for acting like HIS Son. For Christ lifted us all up to where we could never reach on our own.
May GOD Bless you.
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