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Friday... It can be for us but also through us.


Friday... It can be for us but also through us.

Our relationship with God makes so much difference in our own life. It really does. But it also makes such a difference through our lives.  Even as Christ followers we can focus so much on us that it can seem like we may be selfish. And that isn't God's plan.


There are two incidents in John 4 that show this. In the first one, Jesus is sitting by a well and a woman comes to get water and Jesus starts talking with her. He makes such a difference in her personally that she runs back into town to tell others about Jesus and they come to see him and he makes such a difference that they want him to stay for awhile and he stays a couple of days longer. Yes, Jesus made a difference in her life but also the lives of others that she brought to Jesus. 

Verse 46 (CEV) says, "While Jesus was in Galilee he returned to the village of Cana, where he had turned the water into wine. There was an official in Capernaum whose son was sick." It isn't all about us. 

I love my kids and grandkids. I have such a burden for them and for what they are going through. My relationship is not just about what God has done and will do in me. And he has been so good to me. I can't believe it. But it isn't just about me.

Verse 47 says, "And when the man heard that Jesus had come from Judea, he went and begged him to keep his son from dying." And I can feel that. I too do some begging for my kids. Our relationship with God isn't just about us. "He begged him to keep his son from dying."

Verses 51-53 says, "Some of the official's servants met him along the road and told him, 'Your son is better!' He asked him when the boy got better, and they answered, 'The fever left him yesterday at one o'clock.' The boy's father realized that at one o'clock the day before, Jesus had told him, 'Your son will live!' So the man and everyone in his family put their faith in Jesus."

We need to be reminded that this relationship we have with God is not just about us but what he can do through us. He can and will make a difference in us. That is for sure. But he also can and will make a difference through us. Such a great reminder. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning 

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