Sports provided my next attempt at acquiring strength. In the class room, the role of class clown became mine. So I broke my ankle at basketball practice, and I was paddled a lot in the hallways. Two strike outs.
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Chosen people? Royal priesthood? Holy nation? God’s special possession? It certainly sounds like Peter has moved on from his sin of denial.
We believers need to do the same. If God remembers our sins no more, we need to follow His example. With His forgiveness extended to us, we experience peace with God. Why, then, should we continue to beat ourselves up about our sins?
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In this sinful cardboard piece of a man, He continues to grow my capacity for love, joy, peace and goodness. He’s making me more faithful, patient and humble. I possess more self-control and kindheartedness.
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We do this for ourselves, but we also do this for others. Once we become believers, we embark on a crucial rescue mission. Eternal lives are at stake. Those who desert us for the other side still need us. Even when they despise us, we must continue fighting for them.
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A person who makes the wrong decision about Jesus Christ lives his entire life in vain. When he dies after rejecting Jesus, he discovers how vain his earthly life was. Dwelling in Hell for eternity is the most horrible vanity of all. It never ceases.
A perfect marriage simply means each ‘1’ is committed to the other ‘1’ with such strength that the sum of them together is always ‘1.’ Following, the mathematical formula for the enriching part is 1 + 1 = 1 > 1,000,000,000. In other words, no richer life exists than the marriage of selflessness given to each other.
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I committed one of the seven deadly sins last week. Truth is, I don’t even know what the seven deadly sins are. But based on April’s reaction, the sin I committed must be number one of all the deadly sins.
It was a Friday night, and we had decided to go out ‘and paint the town red.’ That means a reckless night of debauchery, which neither of us is capable of. So we settled on a vigorous attempt to ‘paint the town magenta.’
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Both those accounts deal with serving others using money. What about our time or material possessions? Can we be content in handing over our material possessions if it would serve better purposes for someone else? Sometimes we act as if that fourth car in our garage will be joining us in heaven even though we rarely drive it here. Do we truly need fifteen pairs of shoes?
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After five minutes sitting in our fort, Randy said, “How about we go pop bottle hunting?” He could have stopped at “How about we go–.” Yes, let’s go.
It was a smart decision. We could collect two cents for every pop bottle we found and turn that into candy at the local store. Our underground fort could never match that return.
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Imagine this scene: Dougie and Cindee Gangler have a beautiful young daughter named Phoebe Darling. She’s twelve years old (her preferred pronouns are ‘who’ and ‘whose,’ but that’s another story), and when she was five years old, her bedroom housed over three hundred stuffed animals, all sitting facing an actual stage situated along the far wall. After all, Phoebe was a star in the making.
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