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    For thought and meditation

    If you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. MATTHEW 5:23-24
    It is easy for us to imagine that we will suddenly come to a point in our lives where we are fully prepared, but preparation is not suddenly accomplished. In fact, it is a process that must be steadily maintained. It is dangerous to become settled and complacent in our present level of experience. The Christian life requires preparation and more preparation.
    The sense of sacrifice in the Christian life is readily appealing to a new Christian. From a human standpoint, the one thing that attracts us to Jesus Christ is our sense of the heroic, and a close examination of us by our Lord’s words suddenly puts this tide of enthusiasm to the test. “…go your way. First be reconciled to your brother….” The “go” of preparation is to allow the Word of God to examine you closely. Your sense of heroic sacrifice is not good enough. The thing the Holy Spirit will detect in you is your nature that can never work in His service. And no one but God can detect that nature in you. Do you have anything to hide from God? If you do, then let God search you with His light. If there is sin in your life, don’t just admit it— confess it. Are you willing to obey your Lord and Master, whatever the humiliation to your right to yourself may be?
    Never disregard a conviction that the Holy Spirit brings to you. If it is important enough for the Spirit of God to bring it to your mind, it is the very thing He is detecting in you. You were looking for some big thing to give up, while God is telling you of some tiny thing that must go. But behind that tiny thing lies the stronghold of obstinacy, and you say, “I will not give up my right to myself”— the very thing that God intends you to give up if you are to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.
    when the dust settles and the smoke clears all that matters is I hear the words " well done my good and faithfully servant "

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    Thank you for the great lesson and start of the day, Amen.

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    This is one of the hardest lessons in the Bible to learn to practice. It flies in the face of all our human tendencies and proclivities. And yet, it's SO essential if we're to really become what Christ meant for us to be! Christ's main efforts on this earth, while He was with us, was with PEOPLE! And if we have a problem with someone, or they with us, it naturally follows that His intent was for us to find some way to make it right, if at all possible. And it almost always is.

    And what a critical lesson this really is. It's one of the things that we generally start back-sliding and slipping away from what we know good and well we're intended to be and do. And when we start "forgetting" this, many other tenets we've been taught and charged to do also begin following suit. It's SO easy to go backwards. It's like walking in a very strong wind. We have to constantly lean into it, just to keep upright. But with the proper attitude, that's not a "problem," but a blessing - just another opportunity to show what we're REALLY made of, and care about. And it's all in the attitude.

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