The
Message Series I’ll be delivering to begin the 2015 New Year is about one
thing; a real God connecting to real me, a real you.
I think that most of us, maybe all of us, know a certain thing about
ourselves. This thing we know
about ourselves often comes in the form of a feeling or question that goes
something like this, “if being a believer means that God actually transforms
what’s inside of me from something not so good into something new and good,
then why am I not seeing the inner transformation that I should be seeing?
What’s wrong with me? Why
am I not different? Maybe everyone
else is becoming Christ-like but I’m just not seeing it in me.”
The entire goal
of the series is this one thing: to
experience a real God changing a real me in a real inside out way, in a way that
my life under the surface begins more and more to match whatever good that
others see above the surface.
Here’s a story
from a devotional that goes with the series I’ll be preaching.
It is the recorded words of a Hasidic Rabbi on his deathbed,
“When
I was young, I set out to change the world.
When I grew a little older, I perceived that this was too ambitious, so I
set out to change my state. This
too, I realized as I grew older, was too ambitious, so I set out to change my
town. When I realized I could not
even do this, I tried to change my family. Now
as an old man, I know that I should have started by changing myself.
If I had started with myself, maybe than I would have succeeded in
changing my family, the town, or even the state - and who know, maybe even the
world!"
I hope you
prioritize your Sunday mornings in January and February for this series.
I also hope you will consider attending some group that will be doing the
study that goes with the series. Attend
the series, do the 40 day devotional and do it with a group or someone else.
These three ingredients will do something to you and for you from the
inside out. You will have
allowed God into your soul so that He can do within you the good work that you
want Him to do.
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