A Fresh Start

“Take a good look, friends, 

at who you were when you got called into this life. 

I don’t see many of “the brightest and the best” among you, 

not many influential, not many from high-society families. 

Isn’t it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women

that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, 

chose these “nobodies” to expose 

the hollow pretensions of the “somebodies”? 

That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by 

with blowing your own horn before God. 

Everything that we have

—right thinking and right living, 

a clean slate and a fresh start—

comes from God by way of Jesus Christ. 

That’s why we have the saying, 

“If you’re going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God.”

1 Corinthians 1:26-31 MSG

How Do You See Him?

How Do You See Him? 

While the religious leaders asked Jesus questions (Matt 22) to prove that His theology was wrong, and about money and the Law, - listen to the question Jesus asked them back:

What do you think about the Christ?

Whose Son is He?

Straight to the core. Straight to what REALLY matters.

Can I ask you (and myself) this very question?

What’s your opinion about the Christ today?

How do you see Him?

I’m reminded of what Pastor Prince says: 

"How you see Jesus determines how and what you receive from Him. If you see Jesus as your healer, you will receive healing. If you see Jesus as your refuge and fortress, you will receive protection. - He came to be our Redeemer. (Galatians 3:13) He came to be our Righteousness. (1 Corinthians 1:30) He came to be our Shepherd, so that we will not lack anything. (Psalm 23:1)” 

Amen!