Training For Impact

When we know something to be the truth, we should not allow other people to change our minds. At times, the truth may sound impossible but that does not take away from its truthfulness. Jesus told us that He is the truth; therefore, we know our faith is real. Some may mock us for it or call us crazy, but their criticism should not stop us from talking about the truth. We must be persistent in sharing our faith and telling others what we know to be real.

Psalm 83:16 says fill their faces with shame and disgrace that they may persistently seek your name, O lord.

The lesson is -- trust your experience with Gods word, let them be a lamp unto your feet and a light to direct your path, whatever people may have to say against it. If you have found that Jesus Christ can help you, and has loved you, and that your sins have been forgiven, because you have trusted in Him, do not let anybody laugh or talk you out of that conviction.

Jeremiah 9:23-24 says thus says the Lord, let not the one who is wise and skillful boast in his insight; let not the one who is mighty and powerful boast in his strength; let not the one who is rich boast in his (temporal satisfactions and earthly ) abundance; but let the one who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me 9and acknowledges me and honours me as God and recognizes without any doubt) that I am the LORD who practices lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on the earth, for in these things I delight, says the LORD

I love how a bible commentary puts it - It is dangerous to obey feeling, unless its decrees are countersigned by calm common sense illuminated by Scripture. Sorrow is apt to obscure duty by its darkness, and joy to do so by its dazzle. It is hard to see the road at midnight, or at midday when the sun is in our eyes. Both need to be controlled. Duty remains the same, whether my heart is beating like a sledge-hammer, or whether 'my bosom's lord sits lightly on its throne.' Remembering 2chor. 5:7 we walk by faith, not by sight

As some bible expositor puts it - The smallest, commonest acts of daily life are truer worship than is rapt and solitary communion or united prayer, if the latter can only be secured by the neglect of the former. Better to be in the lower parts of the house attending to the humble duties of the slave than to be in the upper chamber, uniting with the saints in supplication and leaving tasks unperformed.

.. In the execution of duties, Paul admonishes Christian workers in Ephesians 6:5-8 be obedient to those who are your superiors with fear and trembling and with humility of heart as unto Christ; not with eye service, as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. With good will doing service as to the Lord, and not to men; knowing that whatever good anyone does, he will receive the same from the Lord, whether is a slave or a free born.

Paul tells us in Romans 10:14 (ESV),

And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? imagine if Rhoda had just kept quiet, remained faithful to her duties as a slave and never shared the news of Peters return, we definitely would be reading a different new testament today! Jesus said, The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few (Matthew 9:37). Are you going to be a laborer for Christ, someone willing to take a step of faith and love to share the message of the gospel through voice, pen, character and love?

It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces all humanity.”

― Ellen G. White

The bible says in Galatians 3:28 - There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus… while the world ranks men by their net worth or followers, God searches the heart and accepts all those who truly seeks Him with all their hearts, just like the lovely rose of a young lady named Rose, it doesnt matter how the world views you. The God of heaven calls you His child, the apple of His very eyes.

Judges 8:27. Gideon made [all the golden earrings into] an ephod [a sacred, high priest's garment], and put it in his city of Ophrah, and all Israel [4]worshiped it as an idol there, and [5]it became a trap for Gideon and his household.

Judges 7:2 - And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.

Judges 6:36,37 - And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said,

37 Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.

Judges 6:25,26 - And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it:

And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.