Miracles Await

Don’t judge other people or you will be judged.  Matthew 7:1

Rather than see the man born blind as an opportunity for discussion, Jesus saw him as an opportunity for God.  Why was he blind?  “So God’s power could be shown in him” (John 9:3).

What a perspective!  The man wasn’t a victim of fate; he was a miracle waiting to happen.  Jesus didn’t label him.  He helped him.  Jesus was more concerned about the future than the past.

Ambition

The fear of the Lord, that is wisdom.  Job 28:28, NKJV

Ambition is that grit in the soul that creates disenchantment with the ordinary and puts the dare into dreams.

But left unchecked it becomes an insatiable addiction to power and prestige; a roaring hunger for achievement that devours people as a lion devours an animal, leaving behind only the skeletal remains of relationships ...

God won’t tolerate it.

A Holy Gift

Christ carried our sins in his body on the cross.  I Peter 2:24

In an act that broke the heart of the Father, yet honored the holiness of heaven, sin-purging judgment flowed over the sinless Son of the ages.

And heaven gave earth her finest gift.  The Lamb of God who took away the sin of the world.

“My God, my God, why did you abandon me?”  Why did Christ scream those words?

So you’ll never have to.

Saved by Faith

Be a worker who is not ashamed and who uses the true teaching in the right way.  2 Timothy 2:15

Timothy never had another teacher like Paul.  The world has never had another teacher like Paul.  He was convinced of two facts—he was once lost but then saved.  He spent a lifetime telling every person who would listen.

In the end it cost him everything.  For in the end, all he had was his faith.  But in the end, his faith was all he needed.

Encourage One Another

When you talk, do not say harmful things, but say what people need—words that will help others become stronger.  Ephesians 4:29

You have the ability, with your words, to make a person stronger.  Your words are to their soul what a vitamin is to their body.

Do not withhold encouragement from the discouraged.  Do not keep affirmation from the beaten down!  Speak words that make people stronger.  Believe in them as God has believed in you.

                                                                                                                             ….By  Max Lucado