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Christian Life isn’t all the time “happy-face” and positive. Yes, there are times of joy. Yet, intense life lessons rarely make me smile or laugh when I’m going through them. Endurance, patience, stamina, fortitude, tolerance, persistence, serenity, determination, courage and grit during these periods are God’s opening to make mere words a reality. Here we’ll be honest about the practice of our Christian faith.

Consider: What If You’re Absolutely Wrong? Suppose You’re Totally Right?

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What if God exists?

  • What if God made everything you see and don’t see?

What if God made people in God’s image?

  • What if people God made rejected God?

What if God did something about this?

  • What if God is in total control?

What if God came here as Jesus?

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What if all that stuff is true?

Guess what?

It is.

In your heart you know it.

Even if in your head you won’t admit it.

But, what if you acknowledged what’s truth?

How would today and tomorrow change for you?

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What Good Thing Has to Happen to Make You Happy?

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Short story:

The road traffic seems back to normal in Tucson a year after the Corona virus panic.

Ernie, Ivy, and I are heading to work, we’re carpooling. I’m driving. Ernie is sitting in the passenger seat and Ivy is in the back seat.

I hadn’t driven too far when Ernie said, “I’ve got a question. What makes you happy?”

I quipped, “Getting to work and back home safely.”

He ignored me and kept talking. “Generally, I think someone’s circumstances dictate happiness.”

Ivy said, “Yes, that’s true.”

I mumbled, “Hmm.”

“But are favorable circumstances the key to happiness?” Ernie continued.

Here we go, I thought. “I agree with Ivy. A person’s good or bad circumstances determine happiness, right?”

“OK, but should circumstance dictate happiness?”

Ivy spoke up. “It may not be the best but it’s what we do… what I do.”

“I know. I admit, I’ve done that too,” Ernie said. “But I’ve been thinking something else other than circumstances should be the source of my happiness.”

“Like what?” I asked.

“One fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5,” he said.

“Which one of the nine do you suggest, Ernie?” I pressed.

“Joy.”

Ivy asked, “Why joy?”

Ernie looked at her in the backseat over his left shoulder and said, “Because it’s God’s plan for us.”

“What!?” I questioned.

“I think happiness has everything to do with the joy alive inside us.”

“How so?” Ivy said.

We were almost at our downtown workplace. The traffic hadn’t been too bad. For that I smiled, but we hit too many red lights… for that I frowned.

Ernie answered, “It’s because God lives inside followers of Jesus. That ought to make us joyful, thus happy. No matter what we’re going through.”

Ivy and I glanced at each other in the rear-view mirror. Both of us saw the wisdom in what Ernie said. “Yes… I get it,” we agreed.

As I pulled into my parking space, the day felt happier.

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What’s your source of happiness?

Too often mine’s been circumstances.

Happiness depended on my current situation. That could mean how much money I made. Whether my home life was crisis free. Or if a half gallon of milk cost more or cost less.

Yep, happiness for me was circumstantial.

I needed something bigger than what happened day to day.

I thought deep about Ernie’s thought that joy should be my foundation for happiness.

It’s true, there is no greater case for happiness than the joy of Christ’s kingdom living within me.

How about for you?

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What is Life About? (part b)

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covenants

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I Want to Know

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How do you have it figured out?

What’s going on in the world?

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Well, It’s About Two Covenants, isn’t It?

In the first covenant (agreement) God gave us the Ten Commandments, which would lead us to safe and healthy relationships.

  1. A safe and healthy relationship with God.
  2. A safe and healthy relationship with people and
  3. A safe and healthy relationship with ourselves.

God set up the commandments so we could be secure and prosper.

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But we couldn’t/ can’t keep the commandments.

We broke every rule and were stuck in poverty.

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What’s God Up To?

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Yet God knew our dilemma so,

God provided a new covenant.

This New Covenant isn’t like the First Covenant. Again, in the previous covenant, we had to keep all the rules… perfectly.

To be our best we always had to reach a standard we could not maintain.

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Good News! The New Covenant changed everything.

  • In the New Covenant, there is one thing to do, everything else is done.
  • In the New Covenant, God offers us His Son—Jesus.
  • In the New Covenant, God gives us Himself.

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Consider This

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Today to have a safe and healthy relationship with God, with people, and with ourselves, we need to choose Jesus.

The Old Covenant isn’t forgotten, it’s alive inside the New Covenant.

This is what’s going on in the world: the First Covenant is wrapped within the New Covenant.

Get the whole—the New.

Choose Jesus.

(to be continued)

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