Or, to make the point the other way around:
everything we do in our life serves our worship, except our sport.
Not exact matches
The truth of it all is that I
do have eleventy - billion chances
in a day to choose love, to breathe out wonder, to love, to
serve, to choose
life and
life more abundant, working out who I was meant to be all along and meeting something beautiful at every summit, never futile, «if anything matters,
everything matters.»
Whether we are
in church singing, praying or
serving; or we are
living our
life at work, at home or
in play, worshipping God should be a natural extension of
everything we
do.
Just as Israel, as God's elect nation, was elected to
serve God
in a specific task, but this
does not mean that every individual Israelite was regenerate, so also, election elsewhere
in Scripture has nothing to
do with whether or not someone has eternal
life, but has
everything to
do with what role God wants them to
serve in His plans and purposes for the world.
Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for
serving him or are we
serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He
did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of
life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and
life.Ultimately God calls all by faith
in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that
do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with
everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant
do it
in ours.As Christ laid down his
life for us are we ready to lay our
lives and the
lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz
These connections are best made
in the first years of
life and will
serve a child for
life in everything she
does.
: Bob Wilmers was an inspiration to us all, and his legacy will
live on
in everything we
do to support our colleagues,
serve our customers and strengthen our communities,» he said.