This is an excerpt from a talk that I gave at Connect Ministries...I pray that is blesses you and pleases Him.
There are three people in the Bible that I identify with readily. David, a man after God’s own heart, who had a man murdered, stole his wife, had chaos in his family and still had the promises of God fulfilled in his life. I identify with David because I am quick to see the mistakes in others, slow to see the ones that I make, and then I beat myself up about my mistakes. David and I also do the panic-then-pray-and-praise thing. Peter is my favorite disciple. He was a hot-tempered, I-will-cut-you (literally) kind of guy, who sometimes, well a few times put his foot in his mouth on his quest for holiness. Let’s see there was, “Jesus, let me come out on the water with you,” “Jesus, stop the crazy talk; you’re not going to die,” “Jesus, I’ll never deny you.” Yet, God still used Peter to spread the gospel. But, as a woman, I really identify with the Samaritan woman at the well. She was well put together on the outside to a stranger she met, but then that stranger told her all about herself… Come see a man who knew all about the things I did, who knows me inside and out. John 4:29 (MSG) In this day and age of social networking, we get the sense that we truly know people. I mean, I can tell you what my friends did at work, what they had for dinner, what they learned in church. But, how well do you really know your friends, or your family, or even yourself? We let down our walls to a comfortable point with other people. Sometimes we are afraid that if they see our true, authentic selves, they won’t love us, or worse, maybe we won’t love us. But, I met a man named Jesus, who knows me inside and out, and despite every thought He hears, every emotion He feels, and every action He witnesses, He still makes a way for me.
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