Motion Into Our Devotion
Dear Champions,
The short excerpt is by Andy Stanley, and the scripture is Matthew 25:37-40 "Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?'
"The King will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.'
Our devotion to God is incomplete until we put motion into our devotion. Our devotion is authenticated to God and to others by our love for others. There is something in all religious people that wants to keep it vertical. If it is vertical, then I control it. Jesus says that it is horizontal-as we do until others that is how you have done unto me. Until you have done for them don't waste your time telling me what you have done for me.
What if that had been the posture of the church for the last 2000 years? What if the only thing that people resisted about the church was that we believed that Jesus was the son of God? Nobody has resisted the church because the church has loved too much or that we were too welcoming. No one resisted us because we were so willing to carry other people's burdens or that we were so forgiving, open and gracious. What people find easy to resist about me and you and Christians is that we know it all, and we are better than y'all.
Are you willing to put some motion into your devotion? It is doing and not believing that makes the difference that changes the world.
Champions, have a great week!-David Vining
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