Seasoned For Your Purpose

Seasoned For Your Purpose

God is a good God. It is His goodness that leads people to repentance. His goodness moves us to walk in His purpose for our lives.

Knowing that His love is everlasting and unconditional. This kind of assurance should propel us forward into a close, and even closer relationship with Him.

I love the Lord, and I love the church. This one, and everyone, that exists to further the Gospel and declare the wonders of God.

It is His story that drives me, not mine. I am not called to promote myself. I am called to shine His light.

I want to share some thoughts titled, “Seasoned For Your Purpose”

Mark 9:38-42 NASB

38 John said to Him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.”

39 But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him, for there is no one who will perform a miracle in My name, and be able soon afterward to speak evil of Me.

40 For he who is not against us is for us.

41 For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because of your name as followers of Christ, truly I say to you, he will not lose his reward.

42 “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe to stumble, it would be better for him if, with a heavy millstone hung around his neck, he had been cast into the sea.

I think what stands out to me in these passages, is the Lord’s complete confidence in those who believe in Him.

Even declaring how important these little, unknown servants are, and the harsh rebuke those who offended them would receive.

In the next few verses, Mark 43-48 there comes a stern warning. I will summarize.

If you hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. If your eye causes you to stumble, pull it out. Better to enter into the Kingdom of God with one hand, or one foot, or one eye. Than to have both, and enter into hell.

Pretty tough. What is He really saying?

I believe that Jesus is emphasizing the importance of three things that occur in our lives, most everyday.

What we touch, where we go, and what we see.

When God gave instruction to Adam and Eve about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, He said this. In Genesis 3:3. “You shall not eat from it, or touch it, or you will die.”

He threw them out of the Garden. Commanded them to work the ground from which they came.

What you touch matters. Today it has a much broader meaning.

The Lord told Joshua this.

Joshua 1:3 NASB

Every place on which the sole of your foot treads, I have given it to you, just as I spoke to Moses.

Where you walk is your inheritance. Where you go matters.

Psalms 26:12 NASB

My foot stands on a level place; In the congregations I shall bless the Lord.

Psalms 94:18 NASB

If I should say, “My foot has slipped,” Your lovingkindness, O Lord, will hold me up.

Where your feet take you matters!!

It matters what you see. Jesus said this.

Matthew 6:22-23 NASB

22 “The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light.

23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

What you touch,where you walk, and what you see.

I want to go back to Mark 9 and read the last two verses. The Lord shared these warnings for our good. Following these principles will strengthen our faith and our relationship with Him. Christ ended the chapter this way.

Mark 9:49-50 NASB

49 “For everyone will be salted with fire.

50 Salt is good; but if the salt becomes unsalty, with what will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

When we go through trials we are being salted in preservation. Not only for our lives. We are called to share this process with everyone.

When we follow Christ we begin a process. Our lives, thoughts, and actions are being refined. Changed, if you will to align with the will and purpose of God.

That process must also be the catalyst that makes us the light of the world. Sharing our story. The things we have conquered. The things that have preserved us for the Kingdom.

Don’t minimize your story. It will be the salt that changes another.

Our success generates success in others. That is the process of being salted.

Matthew 5:13 NASB

You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men.

Colossians 4:6 NASB

Let your speech always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person.

“What we touch, where we go, what we see, salts our world with the love and grace of God.”

We are seasoned for purpose.

What about your purpose?

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