Day 7

I knew today was going to be a crazy day. I was teaching a Bible study with some girls in the morning...precious girls who are hungry and willing to wake up at 8 am and learn about God's word! they are so encouraging to me! I taught a lesson on the fire and power of God's word, and tried to weave the gospel into the lesson (does this count for today??)

Later, I had a full day ahead of my with work: preparing and putting on a baby shower for a friend of my boss. WOW! What a day!! It was very busy, very hurried and rushed, and I HATE living life like this!!! I love taking my time, and getting things done at a more relaxed pace, but today did not happen like that. I went from place to place hurrying just to get the things i needed to get done, and not stopping to talk to people and not even talking to God throughout the day except for "HELP!" The end of the day came...and I came home. Again without sharing the gospel. I am staring to think I suck at this.

Right now I am listening to Derek Webb, and he is talking about a preacher who week after week, preached sermons only on the gospel. After a while, the people of the congregation began to ask when he would preach on something different, implying that they were ready to move onto something else. The preacher replied, "because week after week, you forget it and you walk in looking like people who don't know the gospel. And until you come in here looking like a people truly liberated by the gospel, I will continue to preach it to you" That preacher was Martin Luther, and until his dying day, he did preach the gospel.

We are called to love, and live in community together and charged with a mandate to preach the gospel to each other. the gospel is not only something that we preach to non believers in hopes that they come to faith...it is must more that that. The gospel must have a primary place in the life of believers. Many of us believers are not truly aware of our sin, and consequently not truly aware of the gospel and what Jesus did on the cross. If you know yourself (and your sin) to be exposed by the cross and aware of your individual sin, you will experience true joy. If your sin is small, your savior must be small. But if your sin is great, then your savior has to be great.

When will I truly be living as one liberated by the gospel?? When will we as The Church live as a people truly liberated by the gospel?? Pray that the Lord open our eyes to the reality of our sin and the loving greatness of the gospel, and that it drastically changes the way we live!!