God is good.
People?
Not so much.
Jesus is called "The Good Shepherd." Not just any shepherd. The good one.
God is good. (All the time.) That is a beautiful truth. Cling to it.
Here's a less-than-beautiful truth: We live in a hurting world filled with hurting people.
It's so important to anchor your life in God's goodness. It's too easy to get distracted, discouraged, and disengaged. Too easy to give up and shutdown. Too easy to believe that the world is too big and you are too small. What can you do?
You can live as salt and light.
It says in the Bible that God will leave a flock of 99 to go after a lost sheep. That's you. God pursues you daily.
What is he after? Your heart.
Why? Because the human heart is the wellspring of life.
We are called to let salt and light flow through our imperfect human hearts.
Why do we hold back?
If we don't allow goodness and grace and peace and mercy and kindness and goodness to flow through us, how will it happen?
The world needs us to be salt. Not salty.
The world needs us to illuminate the good. Not deepen the darkness.
While on earth, Jesus rolled with an inner circle that included: tax collectors, fishermen, zealots, doubters, pot stirrers, boat rockers, and rebels.
No matter what you currently feel about the church or "church people," there’s always room for one more in the Messiah’s merry band of misfits.
Join in.
“Then Jesus told them this parable: “What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders, comes home, and calls together his friends and neighbors to tell them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost sheep!’ In the same way, I tell you that there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who do not need to repent.”
how do you live the salt and light life?
Christianity is the original grassroots movement. Let's keep it going.