We work in a most remarkable system. We are involved in unexplainable mystery. Due to a faith which works, we are free to roam the broad streets of wonder....really. Such may sound quaint or even religious, but it's not. It is a fact which we tend to let leak from our cracked doctrinal buckets. Have we forgotten we are called to turn the world upside down for good?
Jesus reversed history. He yanked the rug from hell's intent. His disciples rearranged the social structure to implant confidence into the has-beens and the nobodies. We are no less remarkable. It is our call to see what can be whether earthly measurement would agree.
One of the areas which separates the winners from the losers is whether we can believe in people...when they aren't what they could be/should be yet. Do we believe they will catch on? Do we envision them becoming effective? Occasionally I hear of leaders speaking of how dense or dumb flocks are in general. Not good. Do we see in our people the truth that they can become different? More productive? More like Him?
Our people don't only want us to know the Word, they need us to know the Word will work in them. They deserve to see in our eyes faith in them when they can't see it themselves. Some are looking for a signal from us that we believe they are unique; wonderfully made. The good news is I think that's exactly what our people are going to find in us....confidence that they are brilliant becomers with a great future.
May we reshape now by believing in the people God gives us to work with.
I'm off to Pepperdine Tuesday morning. Pray I will share in my classes the Abundant Life God wishes we all would own! Lord willing I'll be back at Blogville next week unless earthquakes rattle with great disruption.
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