Compromise or Collaboration

Collaboration is the key to a life of fulfillment. The definition in today’s society is often viewed as compromise. However, there is a huge difference, look at it this way, compromise means one or both of the parties in a relationship must give something up in order to come to an agreement that both can approve on. This builds resentment in the relationship, and yet sometimes it’s the only way pass an impasse.

Collaboration is different, in that it brings the parties together to deepen the relationship. Instead of giving up something in order to maintain our own direction, we see how we may head down a better path together leaving our own desires apart and desiring to be unified together on a new path.

This is the foundation of the Christian walk, so many people wrongly believe they have to “give something up” in order to be a Christian. If the faith you seek believes that you can still live your path and compromise with God only in the areas you wish, then look someplace other than Christianity, for God the Father is a gentleman of character and He will not compromise your desires.

When a person receives the gift of grace through belief in Jesus Christ, his/her heart comes into collaboration with the will of God. Through the Holy Spirit God, begins a new work in us. This is a new path focused on Gods ultimate purpose to use our unique personalities and gifts to proclaim His Glory.

The Bible states,

 Colossians 2:6-7 As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. 

        

As we live a life in Jesus Christ let us acknowledge our collaboration with Him. He will change our hearts and desires for a better path toward a life of fulfillment.

In His Dust Pastor Kenny 

Today and Every Day Lord

Today and everyday Lord, thank you for trials and tribulations,

Thank you for my insecurities and my doubts,

Thank you for the financial hardships,

Thank you for the pain in my back,

Thank you for the attacks to my faith,

Thank you for the tests of my convictions,

 For it is only through all of these that I understand that through my trials and tribulations are my insecurities and doubts turned to confidence and trust. In my financial hardships you give me the ability to work until my back is sore. And while I am attacked for my faith both covertly and overtly I grow stronger in the belief that you, JESUS are the way the truth and the Life, that greater is He who is in me then he who is in the world. I am most thankful for the Love You had for me that through all of this I can know that   Rom 8:28  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

In His dust Pastor Kenny

Come and see!

“Come, see the place where the Lord lay.”-Matthew

28:6.

Standing vigil in front of the tomb, the Angles , like the American soldiers guarding the tomb of the unknown soldier, called excitedly to the disciples to come and see the hallowed ground where our  Lord Jesus Christ was placed.

On a recent trip to the World trade center and the 911 monument, I was astonished to see how many people will stand in reverend silence on the hallowed ground that bore so many sacrifices. They come from all over the globe just to stand on the spot to feel a connection to those events. And I noticed almost everyone I witnessed was emotionally affected by their time on that spot. They all came away with a deeper reverence of those events far beyond what they may have read or watched.

Although one can say that all of the places that Jesus spoke, taught and preformed miracles, are revenant, no one spot garners such reverence as the place where Jesus was laid. This spot that can only be seen through the pages of scripture is the most hallowed of them all. The Angles rejoice to show followers of the Messiah His place of resurrection while guarding it from those who would deface such a place .Even though we may not now know the actual place of this resurrection, the Holy Spirit has protected its eternal place in history thought the pages of scripture.

Today pick up your Bible and stand on that hallowed ground, let the Holy Spirit show you the “the place where the Lord lay”. I promise you will come away emotionally affected by your time on that spot.

In His dust Pastor Kenneth Bascom