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Playing Jesus
Based on a sermon by Pastor Daniel B. Pretend for a moment it is your job to act like Jesus. Based on the Bible, and your own relationship with Jesus, what is He like? A few that words would come to mind are calm, peaceful, loving, caring, compassionate, patient, gentle, and kind, just to name a few. So now, you, playing Jesus, are supposed to act those things out. If you had to play the part, act out Jesus, you would instantly focus and concentrate on becoming more gentle, patient, kind, and compassionate. All of those things that Jesus is. I'm here to tell you that that is your job everyday. To become more and more like Jesus. To be kind, and bless others. To be compassionate, listen to people's stories, and offer help to them if you can. To be gentle, and to speak calmly even when someone is angry. Not rushing or forcing your way into someone's heart, but being patient and kind, taking the time to handle their heart with care, like Jesus would. Love like Jesus. And this quote I am getting off of tumblr, but “cross oceans for people, even if they wouldn't walk thru a puddle for you.” That is what real, sacrificial, amazing love is. (I am not saying to be a doormat, I am saying to put others before yourself. I'd recommend reading the book “Boundaries” to get a better idea on how to do this, and just exactly what that means.) Truly LOVE people. Don't just tolerate them, don't fake it. If you are having a hard time loving someone, pray to God to help you out. Love is what changes people, not force. For the longest time, I thought love was just really liking and wanting someone, and being there for them from time to time, as much as you could really, but I didn’t realize what love truly meant until I watched the 5 Love Languages, and Dr. Gary Chapman said that love is waking up every day and choosing someone’s needs before your own. And because I had such a surface idea of love, my first thought was “that sounds awful!! Waking up everyday to do stuff I don’t want to do?? Doing things for others all the time? THEIR needs before MINE?? Why would somehow choose to do that, day after day? That sounds like torture! Love sounds so difficult!!” Yet, people do choose to do that, day after day. They choose to love people. They put others needs before themselves, they seek to serve, help, give, they seek to be joy to and bless someone. They know how amazing love feels. It’d feel awesome if I woke up and my husband had bought me flowers and put them on my nightstand. And even right now in my current life, I bet it’d be awesome for my mom if she woke up and I had made her breakfast. The thing I didn’t see about love originally, is that even though it can be difficult, because you really are fighting yourself, there is also such a joy love brings. I love to love people. I love to smile at customers and tell them to have a great day, and I love that I genuinely want them to. I love seeing my friend Sergeant and hugging her tight and know she loves me back. I love being able to shout Wifey across the room and know my Wifey will turn around and greet me, possibly freaked out that I just screamed at her. I love that Ombre takes the time to listen to me ramble about nothingness, and that we can talk about our crushes mindlessly without end. And I love that I can hug Missy and know she is so happy to see me, and wants me there with her. I love to see all these people, and I could go on and on about the people I love, and how great it feels to love them. It is such a joy to serve, too. There are so many things about playing Jesus that just make me warm, but I cannot ignore the other side either, however, I also really try not to care! What I mean is, we will be prosecuted for our faith. We will lose friends, possibly respect from people, people may be mean to us, discredit us, laugh at us, and a number of other things. And I cannot say I am free from fear of these things, WHO CARES!!! I don’t care if you laugh because I’m reading the Bible. I love it so much! I love to open up Psalms, and read the love letters written to and from God. I love to read the Old Testament and see God come through for his people, even though they were total idiots sometimes, and they failed him constantly. I love the New Testament, and being able to learn about how to be like Jesus even more so, and how I should be living my life. Jesus was persecuted for preaching the Truth, and we will be, too! But who cares!! It’s all incredible in the end. Jesus has risen, and there is nothing, NOTHING, that can take that away. There is no mean word, no friend we could lose, and no bad event in our life that can keep God from being glorified, and keep us from the glory promised to us once we choose to follow Jesus. It’s in the bag, man. Don’t go about life fearful, thinking, “but if I talk about God, they may not want to be my friends.” WHO CARES!!!! Talk about God! I am not saying shove God down people’s throats, but don’t deny Him, either. Live for Him and Him alone. Don’t live for you, or your friends, or for the world. That;s empty, I guarantee it. (King Solomon guarantees that, too, in Ecclesiastes) Live for God! Following Jesus is the best thing you could do, definitely not the easiest, but most certainly the best. (that is your own choice, of course. Don’t let people force you into it, and don’t force people into it, else resentment will grow, like it did for me. It is the best choice, but YOU must make it. No one else can make it for you.) Following Him means acting like Him. So be kind, be gentle, be patient, have compassion, mercy, and truly LOVE people!! Pray and seek God so that you may become more and more like Jesus, and practice it every day. Take risks, live boldly, and don’t be afraid. God’s with you, you got this. Keep praying, seeking, and following God, “Seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” (Matthew 6:33) “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” (Isaiah 41:10) Thank you, and remember, you are LOVED!! Melody P.S. It may help if when you wake up and look in the mirror each day to say, “I am playing Jesus today,”. Remind yourself what that means, and do it. Pray to God to help you do it, too. P.P.S. I did not proof read this because it is almost 1 AM, ignore any mistakes :) also I am totally hyper and slap happy cause it's so late so there might be some random dumb stuff in here.
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Catrina
12/20/2016 09:37:50 am
Simply amazing...
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Melody C.God has given me the natural talent as a writer. I felt Him encourage me in the direction of using my natural skill in writing for Him, instead of investing in skills that were basically going to waste. I have been writing my whole life. I love to answer questions, give advice, and share experiences. I hope you enjoy it, and I pray that God speaks through me and to you. If there are ever any typos, please ignore them. They will be fixed as soon as I notice them. Archives
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