the things i never said

I think it was last night while taking Boyo out for his last wee, a thought popped into my head, “yes you can invest on earth, it will be left behind when you die but also, what you need to invest in first and foremost is the Lord's love onto your kids, this will last forever, through to eternity.” 

So, God, he’s pretty cool. Last night I remembered that I need to finish reading Lisa Bevere's Without A Rival, but I ended up not reading and playing on my phone (lol), anyway. God, he’s resilient, without even thinking about it twice, I picked it up and opened it this evening and I kid you not, 3rd paragraph in, God's like "Yo, remember what 'popped' into your head last night, well here, I'm confirming that that thought was from me." She states this exactly: "The fruit of this promise will accompany your children long after you are gone as well as meet you in heaven." BAM!

Lord, you're so cool, I fall in love with how cool you work. Seriously. 

Because your ego is formed by external stuff—like validation, opinions, job, education—it focuses on eliminating external sins, the ones you can tangibly measure. So, the absence of sexual sins, church attendance, and right theology become the measure of a true Christian.

Jesus seems to address this ridiculous attitude from the beginning (see Matt. 5-7) and somehow I missed it. Jesus knows external sins are shadows of true transformation, and we’re merely reshuffling the deck until we address what’s underneath.

Greed, envy, pride, hatred, prejudice and vanity affect the heart. And, sadly, America not only accepts these sins, but often celebrates them.