Hey peoples!
I wanna talk about love. People have basic needs like food, water and oxygen but did you know that you also need love. The media today has perverted love itself and now a battle rages in the hearts and minds of young people everywhere! What is love? Where is it? How will I find it if I don't know what it looks like?
Philippians 3:18-21 says this:
18 For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19 Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things. 20 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.
The world is led by their flesh (or stomach) but they are following the wrong guide! The church follows after the spirit because the spirit leads us in all truth! The spirit look to God for love, acceptance and identity but the flesh wears a mask of insecurity and dabbles in sin in order to earn the affection of other, like-minded mask wearers. The thing that we have in common is that, once upon a time, we were all love seeking orphans.
We were once where they were! Now WE must demonstrate to the lost the true definition of love and show them the way to adoption. We have been adopted by daddy God and they can be too! We have the brother hood that the gang members are looking for, the peace of God that the drunk is seeking and the family that the outcast is desperately looking for!
I want to challenge you guys... Love till it hurts! Don't compromise, don't wait, don't hesitate, just love. I believe that out of the ashes of this broken culture with arise an army of lovers such as the world has never seen! Will you join it's ranks?
Jack the church kid
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