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its so awesome to be home :) lovely to see people and just talk..


been reading alot about reasonable service....like christianity is our reasonable service...Like umm..its logical!it makes sense for us to give our lives to God, to work for him and be obedient..we think that we deserve rewards and to be blessed but we don't!!we deserve hell.....we do not deserve Jesus, but we get him!!ah i just love this....and he is just MAD about us...my one word to describe Jesus...or God..is jealous...So Don always challenges us to describe God in one word but it can't be christianese..and his is intoxicating..mine is definaltly jealous...and i love itttt..


anyway..sometimes i just get distracted with Jesus...ha..but in the airport i was thinking about Romans 12v1..we looked at it a while ago in our Romans class with Pastor Larry..so the first verse in my bible reads "....in view of God's mercy...offer your bodies as a living sacrifice to God...this is your spiritual act of worship.." so i have an NIV translation and i am learning swiftly that i would like to have alot of translations to look at once..so thank goodness for the internet....i remember Pastor Larry not being too happy with the NIV so i looked up the King James version..."....by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service..." i just love that..like its logical for us to give our lives to him.


then i was reading in Luke 17v7-10.. “Suppose one of you has a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Will he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, ‘Come along now and sit down to eat’?  Won’t he rather say, ‘Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drink’?  Will he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do? So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”


and i just think its so truee..that this is our duty..and we should just do it.without complaining and with a joyful attitude..without expecting a prize here, because we already have the prize..the prize already gave his life so he could have us!and then we will get crowns in heaven when our works are tested by fire...and out of gratitude...we will give the crowns back...we will lay them at our master's feet..cause it would be the honourable thing to do...


Acts20v24 "...however i consider my life worth nothing to me..if only i may finish the race..and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me...the task of testifying to the gospel of God's grace..." and this task of sharing the good news of God's unbelievable grace, isn't always a task which requires us to head off to the deepest parts of the Amazon and risk our livess..its a task we should carry out in our daily lives..plant the seed, we cannot make it grow, so do not be discouraged by outcomes that don't always seem profitable...We may not need to sacrifice our lives or jobs..but maybe our popularity, image, things that we put above God..how can we testify to his grace if we are not whole heartedly devoted..and in love with him first and foremost...?