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It would be just like him

The God of the Bible looks like Jesus, the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being. It would be just like him to go to the cross.

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Practicing Our Scales

Imagine if our walk with Christ, representing his kingdom in the world, were as practiced and pure as Hania Rani’s fingers on the piano keys.

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Rescue

I practice the spiritual discipline of rescuing earthworms on paved surfaces. It's a reminder to me that I can pause what I'm doing, get a little dirty, and help. Also, that I've been given the responsibility to care.

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Your Roots Are Showing

The life that I bring to the world can only be found in my attachment to Christ. His presence with me is essential.

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Connection

I live in a U.S. county with traffic problems. It's a peninsula, and what's not swamp land has been developed. Building new roads is difficult and expensive. Making things worse, roads that could connect don't.

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Familiarity and Fluency

"My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world." ⏤ John 17:15-16,18

In the world, or of the world. We are distinct from the world, but not removed from it. We're not just waiting around. We have been sent with a purpose (to love the world). The essential skill is to be familiar with the world but fluent in the Kingdom.

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Our Deliverer

In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” — John 16:33b

Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Temptations, trials, and testing. The Greek word can mean all three. Jesus experienced these. And so did Stephen, Paul, and Jesus' other disciples. However, they never viewed these troubles as a final destination. Paul even rejoiced in his sufferings. God may lead us through broad places. And he may lead through challenges. But we can trust him to be our Deliverer. The evil one has no legitimate claim on us.

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In Us. In Me.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification. — 1 Thess. 4:3a

Your will be done. I remember Henry Blackaby teaching in Experiencing God that "What is God's will for my life?" is the wrong question. The right question is "What is God's will?" God's will is for his people to be holy as he is holy.

Paul's letters were written to churches, God's called-out people, Christ's body. If God's will is done, it will be seen in us, the Church.

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