IS GOD GLORIFIED IN YOUR LIFE?

By Barbara Chadwick

We went to a couple’s retreat in Walden, CO this week-end. Great fellowship and good food and just getting out of town was just what we needed.

Here are some things we learned.  (The italics are the words of the speaker.)

Christians are to be dispensers of grace (Ephesians 1:4-7)

Is your speech filled with grace?  Do your actions show the love of Christ in your heart?  Does your attitude bless people? During your regular daily routine, how often are you aware of God’s presence in your life? We need to pray for God to nudge us with a reminder that He’s still there and that He wants us to reflect His grace and love.

Our great hope is the basis of our rejoicing even in the midst of trials (I Peter 1:6-7) “In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith – of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire- may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.”

So I say, keep your eyes on this hope. Fix your eyes on Jesus

Important truths about trials:

      -          Trials are temporary

-          Trials are necessary

-          Trials are purposeful

Comfort one another with these words: “Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus…. May God Himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through… The one who calls you is faithful…”                                              I Thessalonians 4:16-18; 23a;24a.

So I say, FINISH STRONG! And may God be glorified in your words, your actions and your attitudes.