August 29: No one Will Believe Our Answers…

Affirmation: Just because the water is calm doesn’t mean there aren’t alligators.

~~~~~~~Ponder, Personalize, Practice: Make this verse your prayer today: “Lord, lions may grow weary & hungry, but I will seek You Lord and I will lack no good thing.”“The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.” ‭‭Psalm‬ ‭34‬:‭10‬ ‭

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Wholehearted Guidepost from Brené Brown

Guidepost 7: Cultivating Play and Rest, Letting Go of Exhaustion as a Status Symbol and Productivity as Self-Worth.

This guidepost has two big elements.

First, play. There are a few key properties of play:

It’s time spent without purpose

It’s something you don’t want to end (lose track of time)

It dissolves your hyper-self-consciousness. You lose yourself in the action.

Play is the opposite of how most achievers live their lives: Everything has to be for a specific aim, time must be tracked intensely, and we’re constantly concerned with how we’re appearing to others.

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Mastering the 7 Decisions from Andy Andrews

The Guided Decision 

Seek wisdom!

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Reading for Today

Walk in Grace. Live in Love by Bob Goff

                       Aug 29

NO ONE WILL BELIEVE OUR ANSWERS IF WE DON'T GET REAL ABOUT HAVING A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS TOO. 
““What do you think?…”‭‭MATTHEW 21:28 

There are plenty of voices in the world who present their opinions like they're solid fact. People tell us which foods are healthiest, which companies are ethi­cal, and the best way to raise our kids. These same people also are prone to tell us what to believe in our faith. I think that's why so many people hesitate to go to church or start exploring what it means to follow Jesus. The faithful seem to have developed a fear of admitting to having any question marks in their faith. This always seemed strange to me for a religion that says faith is all about finding answers. We should all have a long list of questions. Jesus passed right by the people who acted like they had all the answers and found some fisher­men who didn't have any. These are the people He uses to change the world. 

Jesus showed us how comfortable He was with questions. He asked more than three hundred of them. He used them when people asked Him things, and it made the religious types squirm. He demonstrated how faith isn't just about subscribing to a doctrine or a lifestyle. What was going on in the heart was just as important as all the information in the head. 

When people questioned why Jesus and His friends weren't sticking to a tradition, He shot back one of His own questions: "Why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?" (Matthew 15:3). Don't hold your faith like an answer sheet; embrace what you don't quite get, let people know what you're wondering about, and you'll find more of God there than in any catchphrase. You'll connect with a lot more people that way too. 

No one's going to believe any of our answers if we don't let them know we have a couple of questions too. 

 

What questions are forming in your heart today?