My Lifesong

Jake posted a link on the HSM Leader's Blog for leadership development, and I love the article he used.  

Here is what popped in my head as I read it:

I love the imagery that the thread that holds our webs together is God.  When we aren't connected to Him, everything falls apart.  It doesn't matter how beautiful our web is – without God, it doesn't matter.  Too often God is seen as a hindrance, and we try to remove Him from the equation.  Because of Him, the web of our relationships with others is strengthened.  We can love others in the truest sense. 

And the world hates it. 

It tries to tell us the gospel is wrong. 

It tries and it fails.

It fails because the world can't win.  Jesus has already overcome the world.

I struggle with selfishness.  Always have, and I will until the day I am called home.  Yet I overcome it through the strength that Christ gives me.  He's broken those chains of bondage and showed me how to love the way that He loves.  He's broken my heart for what breaks His. 

And I am thankful for that.

My response to show the world that the gospel is TRUE.  Christ is REAL. 

And that He loves us.