Listening to Charles Stanley this morning, I heard an amazing message that I need to write down somewhere. He was reading the scripture where Jesus was telling Peter that Satan was about to sift him.
The purpose of Satan's "siftings" is not to just attack us; the purpose of the attack is to overwhelm us with such guilt and shame that we remove ourselves from serving Jesus with our lives... we put ourselves on the shelf, no longer in a position or disposition to be an agent of loving transformation, no longer messengers of salvation.
Jesus allows the sifting because he has an Amazing plan ahead for us, but we need to be tempered and strengthened to accomplish it.
We all fail at some point; the response is to re-submit our lives to Jesus Christ and STAY OFF the shelf! We are each wonderfully gifted by God to reach out in love to people around us who have never experienced passionate intimacy with Jesus.
Charles Stanley's website is called In Touch Ministries. Click on title above for more info.
6:47 am.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
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