IS IT TIME TO LEAVE THE 99?
Even in the murkiest of waters, the surface can reflect our image.
Are the things we don't like about others a reflection of our own weaknesses?
Take empathy to another level. Step into the heart of the person whom you are viewing through disapproving eyes. The person you disapprove of may be the one amongst 99 that you are called to reveal a greater love. It's easy to stay in the comfort of the 99. There's safety and comfort in numbers.
The best relationships are not built through comfort. Struggle, brokenness, yieldedness and forgiveness are the hallmarks of relationships that endure and reach the point of: " Till death do us part unto eternal life."
Matthew 18:12
The Message (MSG)
Work It Out Between You
12-14"Look at it this way. If someone has a hundred sheep and one of them wanders off, doesn't he leave the ninety-nine and go after the one? And if he finds it, doesn't he make far more over it than over the ninety-nine who stay put? Your Father in heaven feels the same way. He doesn't want to lose even one of these simple believers.
I wonder if it's time for church folks to get out of their pews of 99 and go into the streets of the City and find the one's.
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