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Renewal

The story I began a few months back and left during Easter I am planning to return to very soon on the Monday Morning Blog.

But as I have been meditating recently on my life I see I need a renewal to the Great Commission and Great Command of the Lord Jesus in my life.

Around 2005, I saw something that I really never heeded as I read the Scriptures. In fact, it became my life mission. Simply put it was in these words that I began a new thing: Love God, Love Others, Make Disciples. For more than 10 years I made that my Life Journey. But I've noticed recently I have slowly slipped from that replacing it with feelings of resentment and downright hate. I would look down at others. I would see them as ignorant and stupid. I wasn't humbled but haughty at others. I would talk harshly and make faces at their ignorance. My heart became hard. I was no longer Loving God and certainly not loving others. This past weekend I was challenged to this failure in my life. Now it is ever present before me. And in dealing with others I am becoming more compassionate. Oh how easy it would be to slip into my old recent ways, but God's Spirit is nudging me to walk in His righteousness. I am more conscious of other's needs than their lack of understanding or ignorance. I have more strides to make in this renewed heart of commitment to Jesus' Great Commission and Command. Old habits are hard to break. But I am breaking them with the Spirit's help.

My prayer is that Christ Followers including and especially myself, find His grace and mercy and peace to show others His Love!

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