Ephasians 2 & 3: 1 -7

I'm looking out the window this morning to frost and a beautiful sunrise, much different then the cloudy grey skies yesterday and 2 to 3 inches of snow on the ground. It makes me reflect on life it's sort of like the weather. One day can be full of sunshine and you can feel so close to God and then next it's grey and doomy and God can feel so far away in reading this morning the verse that stuck out to me was Ephesians 3: 7 "By God's special favor and mighty power, I have been given the wonderful privilege of serving him by spreading his Good News." This is Paul stating this but really any one who believes has been given this privilege, this WONDERFUL privilege.

It made me think do we Christians regard spreading His Good News as a "wonderful" privilege. For sure there are some, I know our senior pastor is one that I would put into that category along with a good portion of Eagle Brook staff but does everyone, every day view it as a wonderful privilege or more of something that they should do because they know it's the right thing. Much different when you put it in that context, isn't it? But imagine if every one who believed in God, lived life to follow Him took it as a wonderful privilege, I think that this sinful world would be quite different.

But would their lives be easier, say wonderful. I don't know. In some ways it definitely would be as they would have God in the center of their lives every day, the forefront of every thought this would definitely be a better life. But as a privilege, a wonderful privilege that means that they would be faced with people who did not agree, would think that they were foolish and oppose them and their beliefs. That could definitely be hard BUT all with God being in the center of their lives. Obviously, looking at it as a wonderful privilege is the way that we all should live our lives, so why don't we? Are we more afraid of what someone will think or what Jesus will think? Why can't we push away Satan and help in spreading His word to all we know? I think that each person has different answers to these questions but I hope through prayer and trying to lead my life in Christ that I can get there.

Dear Lord,

Help me take this privilege and view it as wonderful. That I have You as my Father, that you sent your Son to this Earth for me to take away my sins and that no matter what you love me Lord with all my flaws. Let me grab ahold of your Good News and share it with those that you have placed in my life for that reason. Help me to become the daughter that you want me to, to lead my life in you, through you and with you. Lord I ask that you remove in me the fear of sharing your Good News with others and replace it with the attitude of it being a wonderful privilege. Help me Lord in this and in your name I ask all of these things.

Amen!