“I will tell of the kindnesses of the Lord, the deeds for which he is to be praised, according to all the Lord has done for us” (Isaiah 63:7, New International Version)
If you were to begin to make a list of all God has done for you personally, how long would the list be? What if you expanded that to what the Lord has done for your family and friends? What if you expanded it to your community? You would be doing nothing but writing for the foreseeable future.
Now what about the things for which He is to be praised that you are not even aware of? Is God ever at work in ways that escape your conscious awareness?
So, why is it that the things we most often share publicly (in conversation and on social media) are the ways we feel we have been slighted, wounded, inconvenienced, offended, etc.? Could it be that we believe that matters of faith are more private than all those other things?
I’d like to un-keep a well-kept secret: our walk with Jesus is personal, but not private. It is personal in the sense that we respond to Jesus individually, person-to-person. But it is also corporate and public in the sense that we are, according to the New Testament, members together of the Body of Christ (the visible representation of Jesus in the world).
Part of the way we fulfill our purpose is to tell what He has done for us, not in some forced confrontational way, but in the natural flow of conversations as we go about our lives.
Question: In what way are you feeling most blessed today? How could you make that a part of today’s conversations?
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