Daily Butter: Ready ... Set ...

 

Ready ... Set ...

 

My little addition to "Our Daily Bread" (6/25/13)

Let this same attitude and purpose and [humble] mind be in you
which was in Christ Jesus: [Let Him be your example in humility:]
   (Philippians 2:5 Amplified version)

Imagine watching the Olympics and seeing all the the 100m dash competitors at the starting line. Having finished their stretches and started to get situated in the starting blocks you hear  the official say "On your marks... ready.. set..." but instead of a gunshot signalling the start, it cuts to commercial. Something is very wrong with this picture.

After the challenge of yesterday that it's about wisdom rather than knowledge, this familiar and beloved passage showed me one nugget of truth that I seem to forget:  The verses that follow (vv6-11) are not about the intellectual reasoning Christ shared on this earth and (without taking a thorough survey) less than half the words in the Gospels are in red. It wasn't about what He knew or thought or even taught, but rather what He did and how He did it and the example He set.

In the same way faith, if it doesn't have works, is dead by itself.
(James 2:17 HCSB)

So, what am I going to do about it?
Seeing may be believing, but Doing is Faith.

in His service,

Andy Jentes