A tangible challenge

“love those who hate you”
“rejoice in your struggles”
“in order to truly find your life, you have to lose it”
“less of me is more”

Jesus’ teaching were and still are completely contradictory to what the world, our society, and everything about this world is telling us. Our God is a God of changing people’s hearts as he turn their world upside down.

Matthew 20:16 tells us that he first will be last and the last will be first. That’s exactly how we want to live our lives as followers of the cross. We want to be about putting others before us, serving the needs of those around us before we concern ourselves with our own selfish desires. If we look at the example set for us in the life of Christ there is much to learned about what it is to be a servant, in that Christ’s entire life and death was about serving.

It never ceases to amaze me how God uses things in our lives that don't make sense to us, to teach us something and reveal some life changing truth to us. I just want to encourage you to press into those things that on the surface don't make sense and those things that you seem to struggle understanding because it isn't our understanding that we as followers of the cross are called to live our lives with, we are told to seek wisdom and God will give it to anyone who asks.

The way we think and process through things is so infinitely limited compared to the vast knowledge and wisdom of our creator. And to think that we question His designs, plans, and purposes to bequest a substitution of our eternally-infantile wisdom because we know better than our maker.

Live in chaos, pray for brokenness, and most of all seek to know nothing.