Wednesday, 3/25/2015

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.” ~ Gustave Flaubert

JOSHUA 14, 15

Joshua goes out one last time...

10“Now then, just as the Lord promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved about in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old! 11I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then. 12Now give me this hill country that the Lord promised me that day.

LUKE 4:33-44

Jesus is not consumed with fame...

42At daybreak, Jesus went out to a solitary place. The people were looking for him and when they came to where he was, they tried to keep him from leaving them. 43But he said, “I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because that is why I was sent.” 44And he kept on preaching in the synagogues of Judea.

JOURNAL

How often are my actions the result of playing to the crowd or at least to those who will give me the most affirmation?  Jesus is concerned only in accomplishing his mission, not in staying content in the comfort of acceptance and fame.

 23Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, 24since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. (Colossians 3:23-24)