Pretence?

"Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem."
- Maugham

There is a truth in this statement, because for a long time I have said that if you pretend to be able to do something or to be something you often find yourself able to, or being that.

This situation can of course be both useful and displeasing. If one has a vivid imagination and pretends to murder, one may find dead bodies close at hand one day. However, if one struggles with life, and day to day living, but pretends to be fine, one may find themselves coping admirably and gaining friends to help them out of their pretence and into a real independence.

However, I am also sure there are some deeper issues here, but it is late and I am unable to discover them enough to put them into words.

Your Church Needs You!

"You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are."
Jeph Jacques

I realised something the other week.

I had been praying for more humility and the next day found myself greatly fed up because I thought myself useless. It is at these times we text our friends. I did this and my friend text back, inevitably, "You are not useless, you are important."

Of course he is right, and I realised this almost immediately. But I also realised that it was true for everybody else as well.

I realised for the first time that I am important. I am part of a whole, of a movement, of a Church that is always aiming for Jesus, but not always setting the crosshairs right. I am part of this so that I can do my bit to point us in the right direction, and no one else will do what God has assigned me to do as well as me.

And I won't do what everyone else does as well as them.

Hence, it is important you realise YOUR CHURCH NEEDS YOU!

Sing your heart out

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."

Consider the song in your heart.

What is your heart yearning for?

Is it singing?

Did it ever know a song?

Could you teach it a song?

Is it a song worth singing?

Do you know anyone with a song worth singing?

I think we all need a song in our hearts, for it is here we find our purpose. We just need the song to be a worthwhile one, one that will make a difference. And make sure you sing it loud enough that your friends will be singing it even if you forget the words.

Do you want it?

There is a love out there so vibrant, so tangible, so immense.

It is a gut wrenching love, a love to outlove all others. A love of such beauty that Angels fear to tread in its presence.

A love undefinable and undefeatable, a love uncontainable and out of this world.

It is a love that demands, compels, strives, expects, understands, forgives and pours.

It is given freely.

The question is, do you want it?

Passage from the Bible

5Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
6Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
7but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
9Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.