I want to be in on it!
Yesterday at church, my friend read scripture I had read before, but she read the Message version and it really struck me in a different way. What she read, described a person I truly desire to be.
“Even though I am free of the demands and expectations of everyone, I have voluntarily become a servant to any and all in order to reach a wide range of people: religious, nonreligious, meticulous moralists, loose-living immoralists, the defeated, the demoralized—whoever. I didn’t take on their way of life. I kept my bearings in Christ—but I entered their world and tried to experience things from their point of view. I’ve become just about every sort of servant there is in my attempts to lead those I meet into a God-saved life. I did all this because of the Message. I didn’t just want to talk about it; I wanted to be in on it!” 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 MSG
I don’t care who you are, what you’ve done, or where you come from, Jesus died and covered your sins. He loves you so much He shed His blood for you. If the perfect Son of God could love every kind of person that much, then who am I to be any different? How about you? Can we learn to value others above ourselves for the sake of Christ?
May we all have the heart of Paul.
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