tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7743596899616606084.post4461019872876658427..comments2011-08-03T20:09:11.553-07:00Comments on Travel: Not even shoes.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7743596899616606084.post-79568261200760630492011-06-05T15:55:26.097-07:002011-06-05T15:55:26.097-07:00Thanks :)
I agree that it is God's work and ...Thanks :) <br /><br />I agree that it is God's work and not my own and that in my brokenness his power is made perfect. However, this bleat is about where my heart is at. It is not my weaknesses that hold me back but my heart that does. I can bleat on about how I care about the lost but my past gives me ample evidence of an apathetic heart. A selfish and self-serving heart. As I slowly let God shape my heart into one that does TRUELY care, I will find myself less selfish and self-serving, but my point was that where I am at today I am more like the Priest than the Good Samaritan<br /><br />It is not that I will not change. It is that where I am at today I lack the strength of character to make the change today. If i am honest with myself (and thats the point) I would walk past a man dying of hunger or thirst without to much hesitation because im apathetic about it.<br /><br />Im not saying its bad, it is what it is. I think it's more of a process of change from being the men before the Good Samaritan into being the Good Samaritan himself.<br /><br />If that makes any sense?Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04275191480927595313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7743596899616606084.post-55253981636489597122011-06-05T15:39:58.730-07:002011-06-05T15:39:58.730-07:00"Make change. Be the change. However, I wont...."Make change. Be the change. However, I wont. I know I wont. And that, is the saddest thing of all."<br /><br />You can Matt. And you will. Because Jesus doesn't require us to be strong to be able to live for Him and for others, he requires us to be weak and broken, just as we all are. <br />Galatians 12:9-11, "Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christs power may rest on me. That is why, for Christs sake, I deliht in my weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persectution, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong."<br />In our brokeness, God doesn't seek to heal us of that brokeness and make us in to whole, healthy, capable humans. He seeks to heal us of our self-righteousness, of our pride, and fill us with more of him so that we become more of his Spirit and less of our flesh. Our failures are what makes us fall at Christs feet and live humbly, making the difference.<br /><br />The beautiful fact that you are as lost and broken as anyone else ENABLES you to help others :) how beautiful is that?! Humility and teachability, my friend.OliviaEleanorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04786454842714366180noreply@blogger.com