Make It Personal
Friday mornings I try to protect for me to catch up on the week… it typically means some type of study for Sunday morning but also catching up on emails… ideas… today is no different. I am doing some studying for Sunday which is the last week of our 8 week series called Modern Family. We have been walking through how we can combine the influence of the home and the church to have a greater impact than if we worked alone. We have talked about 4 values so far and the 5th one is what we will finish with on Sunday… Make It Personal.
Making it personal is such an important value if we want our lives and the lives of our families to finish strong as God would desire. This past fall we talked for 14 weeks about discovering God’s best version of ourselves and it seems that that process is always at the center of our conversations as followers of Christ and for those who are seeking the truth of Jesus Christ. Making it personal has many layers to it that we will not get to uncover fully on Sunday but it is one that we will return to again and again.
Moses says it in Deut 6:6 as he says that these things need to be “upon your hearts.” I have found that it is hard to transfer into others what is not in me even if it’s really “good” stuff.
It is a lot easier to speak into others lives/issues and tell them what they should do than it is for us to do it ourselves.
If I don’t take personal this value of “making it personal” my relationship with God and what that ultimately looks like in the day to day stuff… as I get up and go and talk and breath and walk and get frustrated with myself and others… if I don’t make it a priority then I know I will never be able to expect my kids to have that in them also. What I don’t want to pass down to my kids is that Christ is another kind of category like everything else is.
Easier said than done… it won’t just happen and I know that it doesn’t all depend on me or Gloria. That is why we depend on Christ not ourselves and why Christ has given us the Church… a beautifully broken but redeemed collection of misfits that hopefully are doing this together.
We will talk more about this Sunday… hope to see you there.
