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Monday... So let's keep at it!


Monday... So let's keep at it!

This whole matter of retirement still has responsibility attached to it. It for sure is not all leisure. There is no way that God has built me to do just that.

Over in Acts 5:42 (NLT) it says, "And every day, in the Temple and from house to house, they continued to teach and preach this message, 'Jesus is the Messiah.'" Yes, Jesus had gone back to heaven but that didn't stop them. They still kept at it.


Now a few years back I retired from some of the responsibilities of being a pastor. That was a difficult decision and it was a right one. But my task as a Christ follower wasn't over. I still have a message to give every day house to house, I do it thought the internet and in my coffee shops, and with my neighbors. And I will be doing this as long as I am able to do it. 

I am about to have in a few weeks a birthday. It is a significant number but I am not done doing what God has called me to do. Now I'm not doing it in the Temple. But I am continuing doing it house to house every day. Retirement just means I'm not getting paid to do it. I have a greater focus and a different privilege and responsibility. 

Now the Amplified Bible defines it a little more. It says, "And every single day, in the temple [area] and in homes, they did not stop teaching and telling the good news of Jesus as the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed)." Now I was not ordained to do that, I was created to do that. And there is a point that each of us as Christ followers have been given the privilege to do that.

Let me ask you? How has Christ made a difference in your life if you are a Christ follower? Now maybe all of us do not have the ability to teach or preach up front but we sure do have the story to tell and that story is definately good news. If we have asked Christ into our life and he has come in and changed the direction of our life then we have a story to tell of the good news of Jesus as the Christ and the difference he has made in your life.

So let's keep at it and see the difference it will make in our world and in our life. Yes, we each one have a message to share that Jesus is the Messiah. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning #todaysbeginning 

 


 

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