Inconvenient Jesus
Posted by Kristin on Mar 29, 2008 in Life | 0 comments
I watched a short video the other night at Element, which is the youth ministry at our church, Shore Fellowship. It was called Inconvenient Jesus and the ending was so captivating it gave me chills and I immediately thought, “wow, everyone should see this, it’s so true!” The video portrayed an all too familiar scene of what so many people do to Jesus on a daily basis and don’t even realize.
We work all day long, going through the motions of our jobs, or maybe you’re in school all day long, the day is finally coming to an end and you get ready to go home. When you walk in the door of your home you realize Jesus is sitting there and has been waiting for you all day, you say “hello” and tell Him you need to just do a few things around the house, take care of a few errands and then you promise to hang out with Him. You grab something to eat, you get on the computer and check your email, make a few phone calls, check your myspace or your facebook, you tell Jesus you’re almost done and then you promise you’ll spend some time with him. Upon checking your email you realize your friends are going out that night to hang out and have a good time. Your phone rings and your best friend invites to join them, you realize the guy/girl you’ve been trying to date is going too and you get really excited…but then you look up, you see Jesus sitting there and decline the invitation because you have a prior obligation you have to keep. Another friend calls and invites you out as well; again you look at Jesus sitting there and regretfully say you have other plans.
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Posted by Kristin on Mar 25, 2008 in Life | 0 comments
We, though, are going to love—love and be loved. First we were loved, now we love. He loved us first.
If anyone boasts, “I love God,” and goes right on hating his brother or sister, thinking nothing of it, he is a liar. If he won’t love the person he can see, how can he love the God he can’t see? The command we have from Christ is blunt: Loving God includes loving people. You’ve got to love both. 1 John 4:19-21
I thought I would blog this passage of scripture I read on my lunch break today…the whole letter of 1 John is great but this particularly stuck out to me because it’s easier said than done and I think a lot of us struggle with this very thing. It’s very easy to love those who are lovable, those who make it easy to love them but what about the difficult people in your life? The people that you really wish weren’t in your life, the ones you wish you didn’t have to see, the ones that always seem to cause problems and conflict, the ones that are mean and misjudge and mistreat you, the ones that are difficult and seem so unlovable…
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