The more we become like Jesus, the more similar the tactics that our enemy uses will become to those he used against our Lord. Fortunately, Jesus has already overcome our enemy, and provides both the wisdom of His tactics and the strength of the Holy Spirit to ensure that we also will be victorious. Consider the time that Jesus spent in the wilderness fasting and then being tempted by the Devil (Luke 4).
Daddy: Why did Jesus have to die? Why couldn’t it be someone else? Sammy: Because He is the only one who is holy and has blood. Dude. . . ummm.…
Of all the questions we can ask, “What does God want from me” is perhaps the most important. Jesus tells us that God wants two things from us; He wants us to believe, and He wants us to love.
Jesus is the bread of life, so why do we spend so much energy thinking and teaching about Twinkie fluff?
Who doesn’t love this (unsourced) quote from Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” It sounds so right, certainly something that we desire to be true, or is it?
