Church

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I'm pretty sure I found my new church home.  I still feel like an outsider and probably will for quite some time.  COVID is not the best time to try and make new friends, and there's still the creepy tall single guy in the back thing to overcome, but I know the preaching is real.  The pastor is travelling and the person that filled in for him today brought the mail.

This kid was real.  He didn't mince words.  He touched on a touchy topic of salvation and he brought Truth.  Not his truth.  THE TRUTH.  And it was good.  Also it was something again that I really needed to hear.

I got reminded today that when we wake up, we have a choice to make.  A devotional I read suggested we post the truth to the calendar of our phones.  I don't need to.  That truth sits on my mantel piece and it's Joshua 24:15.  Choose this day who you will serve.  As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

I got reminded about worship this morning, too.  A thought not of my own was given to me about worship; one which I had to correct in my own head and quickly this morning.  Just like Jesus told the Evil One, Worshp the LORD your God and serve Him only.  But too, I think it's a good thing to build Altars to worship God.  Mark Batterson wrote of one he keeps in his office.  It's an empty liquor bottle from a crack house his church bought and turned into a coffee shop.  He talked about it in an email he sent out a few weeks ago.  

The altar we (me and the Holy Spirit) built here is in the name of the house.  The home has an official name and it's CASA BONITA (almost) by the sea.  It's a beautiful home.  It's a gift from God and the name reflects God's goodness in allowing me to steward such a place.  

We have to be careful in life not to let things become idols.  We have to be careful also not to let people become idols.  Sometimes that requires kind of changing our thinking about our roles in God's plan. I can look at the county records and find out that I'm the legal owner of the property.  According to them, but God's word tells me that the world and everything in it are His.  That means that I need to change the word owner to steward.  A steward serves his Master.  And the credo of Casa Bonita is Joshua 24:15.

I don't always get it right.  I've been having to deal with some things I needed to change in me.  In fact, I kind of felt the Holy Spirit asking me what I wanted.  I don't know how I knew the answer, but the thing i wanted the most today was to have a servant's heart.  As the kid speaking at church reminded me today, it's God who deals with hearts.  And I need to remember that in order to serve the Lord, I need the right kind of heart to do that.

I love it when things come full circle and it's been that kind of a day here.  I hope your Sunday was a blessed one as well.



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