Title: Change Your Mind (2)
Series: Things That Matter to God
Author: Jeff Ecklund
Text: Colossians 3:10, Luke 19:1-10
Last week I talked about "the matter of people" and that if people matter to God, they should matter to us.
One of the things I want to revisit is the matter of our heart toward people. That we can lose our compassion because of offense, bitterness, bad experiences etc.
The other thing that happens is we experience compassion fatigue.
Never before in history have we had such sudden, even immediate access to tragedy, suffering and reports of evil things happening.
And we get hardened, jaded and cynical and if I can say...judgmental towards people.
The hope I always have is that people can change.
I know they can change, because my testimony is that God changed me.
When you open your heart to Jesus and believe, you give the Holy Spirit access to start the home makeover. For me it was the extreme makeover! And there were a lot of things in shambles! Some of it was environmental, i.e. how I was brought up...and some of it was because of self-determination! Self-inflicted because of the path I had chosen to walk, and the path I had chosen to stray from.
Extreme Makeover shows:
I don't follow those shows but I appreciate the people that are able to see through the run down, old dilapidated stuff and are willing to do the work so that something can be made new. They can see the future potential despite the past being evident.
God sees the treasure in you before you do and then calls you into the process of change...
Colossians 3:10 (NKJV)
10and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,
2 Corinthians 3:18 (NKJV)
18But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
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Series: Things That Matter to God
Author: Jeff Ecklund
Text: Colossians 3:10, Luke 19:1-10
Last week I talked about "the matter of people" and that if people matter to God, they should matter to us.
One of the things I want to revisit is the matter of our heart toward people. That we can lose our compassion because of offense, bitterness, bad experiences etc.
The other thing that happens is we experience compassion fatigue.
Never before in history have we had such sudden, even immediate access to tragedy, suffering and reports of evil things happening.
And we get hardened, jaded and cynical and if I can say...judgmental towards people.
The hope I always have is that people can change.
I know they can change, because my testimony is that God changed me.
When you open your heart to Jesus and believe, you give the Holy Spirit access to start the home makeover. For me it was the extreme makeover! And there were a lot of things in shambles! Some of it was environmental, i.e. how I was brought up...and some of it was because of self-determination! Self-inflicted because of the path I had chosen to walk, and the path I had chosen to stray from.
Extreme Makeover shows:
I don't follow those shows but I appreciate the people that are able to see through the run down, old dilapidated stuff and are willing to do the work so that something can be made new. They can see the future potential despite the past being evident.
God sees the treasure in you before you do and then calls you into the process of change...
Colossians 3:10 (NKJV)
10and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,
2 Corinthians 3:18 (NKJV)
18But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
In the list of "things that matter to God" ...
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