Why It’s Time We Stop Making Excuses. And UNITE Linky

The world is filled with excuses.  I know.  I am the creator of the best of them. I have pulled them on,
dug them up, lassoed every excuse of why I can’t live fully for God.

You too?

See there is just something about smallness that makes us want to breath deep and crawl up into it. I think we can all embrace this aspect of theology.  But, when it comes to living like God has called us, rising up and being the fullness of what he died for…somehow we get stuck.

What excuses do you have for not serving God with all you have?  Are they tangled with mine? I am too old, too young, to lost, or too broken?  I am not educated enough?  Not wealthy enough? It’s someone else’s fault why I trip up time and time again…and don’t live bold for Christ?  Is it the churches fault, a pastors fault?  Is it a group of people who did me wrong?  Or just one person that cut
in on your race when you were going so strong?

The list goes on and on.  But friend, let me tell you right now….no matter who you are, where you live, the colors of your past…you are not exempt from God’s calling on your life!

My husband and I do devotions thousands of miles apart this morning. Him in an airport on his way to South America, and me here tucked quiet within the walls of our casa. We used to always fight through devotions.  Used to struggle on finding common ground when our worlds, our past, everything about us used to look so different….and we could not see “same”….We could not see each other.

But scripture is life. It is hope.  It is joy. It is a level playing ground.  And in His presence there is UNITY, if we keep our eyes on His perfection, and not on others or our own inadequacies.

This morning we read together, 1 Corinthians 1:19

And suddenly all of our excuses fall like rain onto the floor of who we are.  All our need-to’s, have-to’s pass away like decades passed, not remembered anymore.  For God thinks not as we think. His ways higher. His thoughts beyond what we could dream for us.

And yet, we get stuck.  We get stuck…don’t we?

We dance around the “rules”, we put our faith in education, learning, philosophies, or our own discernment….when all we really need is Christ. (1 Cor 1:19)

How many times have you, have I justified our time, pointing to others, or made excuses for why we couldn’t move ahead in the calling of God?

“Has not God shown the nonsense and the folly of this world’s wisdom?” 1 Cor 1:20

And yet, we scan Facebook and Twitter, we read books, we get as much education as we think seems fit….

Yet, at the end of the day, at the end of this life….God won’t grade us on how much our heads hold, but instead on how much our hearts hold, and how much our hands have shown the love of Christ.

And I don’t want to offer Him empty knowledge at the end of this life, when I bow before the Holy of Holies and make excuses for why I didn’t sacrifice or give my life away like He did.

I want radical love to prompt abandoned grace, while doing everything God in His mercy has called me too..

No more excuses?

God does use the seemingly useless, so that no man can boast!

So, how about if you join me today in crucifying our excuses!  How about if we scrape up our worthlessness, lift up our heads, and stand up and start doing the work of God. (Whatever that looks like for each of us)

As we preach Christ, we will be foolishness to many, requiring us to cling to, trust in, and rely solely on Him for your daily nourishment.

Walking in the fullness of Christ is often craziness to the many watching, (It can even be craziness to other Christians watching, at times), but it is in the trusting God, that he is wiser still; the weak things of God stronger than man and their apparent wisdom, knowledge, and man-made rules….

And yet God-driven is the place where we must live.  In the center of His perception.  The place where condemnation, excuses, even our own feelings don’t compromise His presence or His goodness.  A place where we can walk boldly in His love….which is all that matters at the end.

I want that kind of faith, don’t you?  To stop justifying my inadequacies, and start living boldly in the truth of Christ? 

God uses the lowly.  And my friend, He can use you too?

Ready to leap together?  Let’s do it!

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