Last week I promised I'd get you a proper video review of the bag of Epic Coffee Justin sent to my husband and I in exchange for an honest review. It's a three part review and I'll post one here each week as they come out! Be sure and read the whole interview with Justin if you haven't already. And after you watch the video be sure and grab a bag or two of the coffee for yourself.
Paul has a vision of new creation: Christians full of God's will not fighting it at every stage, wise not worldly. They can be worthy of their Lord, make their Father happy, do His good work and know more about Him all the time. They can be strong with His strength, patient and faithful. Christians who rejoice!
For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light.
For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. (Colossians 1:9-14).
I want that! Not an apostle pouring himself into prayer on my behalf-although that would be nice-but to be transformed! Don't you? Yet instead we find ourself in a dry and dusty place. A place without joy, or growth, or excitement.
We don't just visit this spiritual desert; some of us built a little shack there (or even a church) and made it our home. We might even have forgotten that there is anything beyond the Christian to-do list.
Prayed. Check.
Went to church. Check.
Read my Bible. Check.
Does that sound like what Paul was praying for? Is that the Christian life he had in mind?
What will it take to transform us? One by one, family by family, Bible class by Bible class, congregation by congregation into the wise and worthy workers we want to be?
I think I know! Check out the video below for some thoughts!
PS. Are you looking for that book we were talking about? You can buy it now and when you give the book as a gift I have a free gift for you! Check it out!
The inspiration for this month started with some friends who had come over to visit us while we were still abroad. They told me a tale of another young missionary, (we'll call him George for safety sake) in a nearby part of Asia. The story went that although he was working hard, preaching the gospel steadily, although people were listening and responding, the money just wasn't there for him to come back for a second year. At the time it was looking like he would have to go home.
