God In me, Gives Me Purpose
God in Me, Gives Me Purpose
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself for me.
I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing.
1. If I have indeed been crucified with Christ, I am dead to sin and to this worlds allurements.
2. If I live by faith in the Son of God, I must carry out the mission that He intended for me.
3. The outer trimmings do not matter.
4. It is what is inside that gives me meaning, purpose, and strength.
God’s Coffee:
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned to complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite. He told them to help themselves to the coffee.
When the students all had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: “If you will notice, all the nice looking cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones.
While it is normal for you to want the best for yourselves, that is also the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases it even hides what we drink. What you really wanted was the coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... and then you began eyeing each others cups.
Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money, and positions in society arethe cups.
They are only the tools to hold and contain the life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of life we live. Sometimes, it is possible, that concentrate of the cup so much that we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided for us.
God brews the coffee, not the cups...enjoy your coffee!
The happiest people are not those who have the best of everything; they are the people who make the best of very thing.
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.”
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself for me.
I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing.
1. If I have indeed been crucified with Christ, I am dead to sin and to this worlds allurements.
2. If I live by faith in the Son of God, I must carry out the mission that He intended for me.
3. The outer trimmings do not matter.
4. It is what is inside that gives me meaning, purpose, and strength.
God’s Coffee:
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned to complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite. He told them to help themselves to the coffee.
When the students all had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: “If you will notice, all the nice looking cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones.
While it is normal for you to want the best for yourselves, that is also the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases it even hides what we drink. What you really wanted was the coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... and then you began eyeing each others cups.
Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money, and positions in society arethe cups.
They are only the tools to hold and contain the life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of life we live. Sometimes, it is possible, that concentrate of the cup so much that we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided for us.
God brews the coffee, not the cups...enjoy your coffee!
The happiest people are not those who have the best of everything; they are the people who make the best of very thing.
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.”
posted by Pastor Al at 4:32 PM
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