Sold Out For Jesus daily devotion online
G. John White's first devotional Sold out for Jesus covers 12 vital themes of Christianity.
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June Topic: FAITH (for without faith it is impossible to please God) |
This month let's have a look at how we can please God and at the same time experience the dynamic power of God which will make our Christianity very exciting and totally contagious! |
Hebrews 11:38
THE WORLD WAS NOT WORTHY OF THEM...
What about you?
Do you still want to be knighted? Given an earthly accolade? Acknowledged by the world as 'one of them'? If you do, you have received your reward! But surely it is better to receive an unfading reward from the King of kings!
Interesting turn of phrase isn't it? Not "they were not worthy of the world" - but "the world was not worthy of them!" What does it mean? They were in the world; they had lived on earth; they had carried out God's plan for their life and gone ahead of us. What was so different about them?
Today, most people like to be called "a man or woman of the world" or a "global statesman/woman." So what is the difference?
It just so happens that once in a while we come across people who 'don't belong' to this world. They have different values; different goals; different agendas; they don't try and possess anything on earth and sometimes seem to act a bit abstractly, as if their mind is on a 'higher plain'.
They are not 'one of us'. Their whole lifestyle is 'different'. They challenge society - not so much by raising their voices or actively breaking the law - but they don't conform and they don't compromise. Considered strange, radical or fundamentalist - they are to be avoided. They never understood what 'laissez-faire' meant. Outcasts, non-conformists - troublemakers. Well, they don't actually cause trouble, but their very lifestyle challenges society and its values system and makes 'it' feel uncomfortable so their life should be cut short!
Jesus was a stranger passing through too! Are you?
Oh, may we all live as if we are on our way somewhere else - which will cause others to want to follow us there!
May it be said of us too - the world was not worthy of them!
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