WHO ARE YOU? NO...WHOSE ARE YOU?

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          Who are you?  Whose are you?

You influence and are influenced according to the answer you give.          Are you are the flavor of the month because you are determined to be like everyone else no matter what?  If so, consider being more independent in our thinking and actions...because God wants you to grow up.

It may be easier being someone's shadow but wouldn't you really rather be a sun. 

Once, when we were all babies, we crawled and we cooed and sometimes cried and did things that mothers and fathers and friends laughed at and thought were cute, and excused us because after all we were babies.  And then in not that long a time, we learned, or hopefully we learned, that we were expected to grow up.

But if at twenty or thirty or forty we still continue to act like immature adults, no one laughs any more and says, “Now isn’t he cute,” “Now isn’t she a darling.”  No they say, “He or she has grown up to be a spoiled adult brat.”

And God loves us anyway.  The sacrifice of Christ on the cross says it.  The words Father forgive them for they know not what they do echoing across that rocky Golgotha ground says it. 

The whole gift of salvation, says it.  “We are family…God’s family and families live together and love together and forgive together.”

The word is out…the evidence is in…we are all sinners.  We all make mistakes on a regular basis…spiritually we move two steps forward and one step backwards, but He who made us in His image says, “I love you.  I sent my sent my Son to die for you.  Get it…believe it…be made whole by it.”

How do the those words in Matthew 5:16 read, Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

In 1848, Dr. John Geddie went to Aneityum, one of the many islands in the South Pacific and worked there for God for 24 years. 

On the tablet erected to his memory these words are inscribed:

When he landed, in 1848, there were no Christians.

When he left, in 1872, there were no heathen.