As you are aware, I went to CIT this summer. This is a program, called Camper In Training, that takes two weeks and digs deep into what servant leadership means. The first week is full of sessions and time in God's Word and the second week finds us in new cabins and living out practically what we learned.
Some of those sessions I walked into and thought I would get very little out of it. I was so wrong. In every session, I was convicted. My notebooks are filled with notes and highlights and my head is overflowing with knowledge.
I'm not capable enough to fit two weeks of learning into a post. So I'm going to brush over the highlights in this post and go into detail in some later posts.
Don't be good. Be overly responsible. When you do a job, are you doing "good enough" or are you giving your all? When the Bible says "do all to the glory of God" that doesn't mean it'll slide if you don't look at the details. It means that if God walked in and scrutinized your work, He would be able to tell that you did your best. You may not be the most able option or qualified person for that job, but if you did your best, then looked for things you could improve, you did it for His glory.
God isn't waiting for us to run to Him. He is running towards us. In the parable of the prodigal son, the father runs out of the house and engulfs the son in a hug. He didn't wait in the house for his son to show his sincerity. He was willing and ready to forgive. The son didn't even get a chance to apologize fully before the father threw a party for him.
Struggle isn't bad. Most Christians are ashamed to admit they are "struggling" with a sin. Struggle means that you are striving to improve and you are doing your best to defeat sin. We are human and fallible, so we are prone to temptation and falling back into sin. But with every failing, there is a chance to stand up and keep walking. And Christ is right beside us. He helps us up and gives us the grace and strength to continue walking, even when we've fallen down many times.
The Christian walk wasn't meant to be private. God designed us to need people. Having a person who walks beside us and helps us up is biblical. Ecclesiastes 4:10 says “For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.” Christians are supposed to help and encourage each other in the faith. This is something that God designed from the beginning: fallen, rescued people, helping other fallen rescued people reach the goal of Christlikeness.
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