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.. I’ll start posting more often when life calms down. What? That never happens? Crap.

But I digress. What if.. as a community of believers, we stopped working so hard on fighting against our “enemies” and started putting all of that effort towards building one another up? What if .. instead of focusing on telling all the people on the outside how to get in… we taught all the people on the inside how to go out?

Think about it.

What if… we spent as much time seeking out our own flaws as we do seeking others’ flaws? Would we grow as individuals? As a community? There’s instruction that’s necessary and sometimes we need those closest to us to show where we fall short, but it would appear as though the church has become a group of people who like to sit on the outside and judge what’s going on inside. It’s something we all say we hate.. and no one likes to admit they do it. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.

I am so overwhelmed at the thought of how much God loves me. Any doubt that I carry. Any questions that rise up. There’s that peace of God that surpasses all understanding that seems to squash everything else. I was reminded today that God “sees the depths of my heart. And he loves me the same.” My problems, my weaknesses, my insecurities and my bad habits. God doesn’t expect me to be able to cover those things. He’s not telling me to fix it .. then talk to him. He’s telling me to bring it to him and let him sort it out. There’s an amazing amount of security in knowing that I don’t have to rely on my own abilities to overcome my inabilities. That’s not how God designed it. He knew we would need a Savior.

I’m constantly reminded I’m being groomed for something big… something bigger than I could dream or imagine. It makes me different. It makes my thoughts, my struggles, my actions all different.

Now… I’m just waiting on the next step.

… very dangerous when I hear a very successful and well-known speaker says that they usually don’t bring scripture into their messages because they’re trying to reach the masses, and they don’t find it necessary.Then, who’s words are the masses following?