Everyday I realize how unique each one of us truely is
and how important it is to honor each ones uniqueness.

When honor is omitted, problems occur:

1) The person who is not being honored is not going to feel
confident to be who God made them to be.

2) The person who is not honoring is also going to have a really
hard time finding out who they are in Christ.

Main point: God is being put out by our inability to be comfortable with our
gifted bro's and sis's.

1 Peter 2:16-17
"Live as free men, yet without using your freedom as a pretext for evil; but live as servants of God. Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear Good. Honor the emperor."

I heard in a teaching that the emperor Peter is choosing to honor here, is the one who killed him.

Blessed are the poor, Blessed are those who mourn, Blessed are the meek, Blessed are those who hunger and thrist for righteousness, blessed are the merciful, Blessed are the pure in heart, Belssed are the peacemakers, Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil agains you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men persecutes the prophets who were before you. Matthew 5:3-13 "The Beatitudes."

Check your beatitudes.
Become selfless for His sake.

are you listening?

Remember those days when you just
can't
seem
to
hear
what anyone is saying, people start chuckling... your brain starts listening less. Good, because your experience(s) can help you understand a revelation I had today at work.

I think I was probably one of those days where I am just lost in my mind, trying to connect the dots to an end. Well, near the end of the work day I had yet another, "what did you just say?" moment. This one happened to really catch my attention as I was scrubbing a few dishes and realized I thought I heard one of my coworkers say, "this takes four arms to do." Now oddly enough I have had many a "ahhh" moments at the deli sink and here was another.
In my brain, as I was asking my coworker what she had just said, God began shouting...

"are you listening?!".
I stoped and let Him speak.

I realized, as I actually have for awhile now, but more clearly today that I wasn't, that in trying to find out what I was to do with my summer, my future, my tomorrow and next wednesday... I wasn't listening too well. God speaks. The world... well, the world doesn't speak as gently as Him.

Pause.

It's crazy how simple the things that are being spoken to us are, once we truely listen.