In thinking about this comment, what is this person's worldview? (My idea: If people are serving God, loving God, and don't get everything just right... wait, that is all the people of this world who serve and love God. So, I will do my best to relate to them in love, while learning from them and sharing my understanding of the Gospel with them.)
The point is this: We, believers in Jesus, are to be distinct from everyone else, non-believers, on this earth ... but how?
Then he (Moses) said to Him, "If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here. For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that we, I and Your people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are upon the face of the earth?"
_Exodus 33:15-16 (NASB)
This is the most important distinction for us today. God must be in our presence, we must daily seek the presence of God.
Seeking God's presence brings humility into my heart. It helps me to admit my weekness, my sin, my pride, then God is able to heal those broken places so that I can in His confidence love and bless others. Yet, God has placed his confidence in us. He gave us the message of the Gospel. He told us to become like Him. He thinks you and I are able to be like Jesus! I think that is the most ridiculously amazing thing ever. God thinks I can be like Jesus. I have a long way to go, but God says it is so, so it must be so!
God, our Savior, Master, and Friend, we pray that you will lead us into your presence each day. May we search for you, may we know you, may we demand your presence in our lives. We ask you Lord to bring revival to our hearts, to bring a daily hunger and thirst for your Word, for your Spirit. Heal our hurts, bless us with your love, so that we can help others to know you and your love for them. In the name of Jesus - Amen!
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