Saturday... I am a Christian and this is what I think.

It is so important for us to tell everyone what we think, isn't it? I mean, the internet gives us great opportunities to give our opinions about everything. But is that what really matters to God? Is it? He is the one we serve not our own wisdom or thoughts or opinions.

Paul in writing to the church in Corinth, a church that had a great opinion of itself but their actions didn't live up to their talk, said this in I Corinthians 4:20 (NLT), "For the kingdom of God is not just a lot of talk; it is living by God's power." The Message says, "God's Way is not a matter of mere talk; it's an empowered life." And it takes great power to not alway give our opinion about everything.

God wants to use us. He has given us as Christians a tremendous opportunity to show His power and His love and His truth and His thoughts and His way. It is called life. And 2020 and 2021 has had some great difficulties in them. It has been and is a great opportunity to show what an empowered life is all about. But it has also been a time for us to spout our opinions that don't really align with God's Way.

It is a time that we need to spend in His Word and on our knees. We need God's power in us to show how He has, He does and He will make a difference through our lives and in this world. We need to show that He has given us the power to live through difficult times, to show His power to share what He thinks and to show how He loves.

After sharing this Paul writes in verse 21 (MSG), "So how should I prepare to come to you? As a severe disciplinarian who makes you toe the mark? Or as a good friend and counselor who wants to share heart-to-heart with you? You decide?" Do we choose to be just a talker or to be a person who lives a life empowered by God?

Verses 20 & 21, (NLT), "The kingdom of God is not just a lot of talk. It is living by God's power. Which do you choose? Should I come with a rod to punish you, or should I came with love and a gentile spirit." Let's not be all talk. Let's choose to live the life empowered by God. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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