From The Inside Out

So Thursday night I went to BSU with some friends that came down to visit. . . . . I forgot the speakers name, but she is a radio talk show person, and she was on Survivor China. . . . . anyways that is besides the point. The message she brought was pretty much amazing, and I am going to tell you what she spoke about. 1. We have to remember where we came from, in Titus 3:3-6 it says, "At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of the things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior." The next thing she talked about was We should Pray that God will show us the person the way he sees them. In 1 Samuel 16:7 the Lord is talking to Samuel, and the last part of the verse says. "The Lord does not look at the things man looks at, Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart." And that is something we all are guilty of. We focus so much on what a person looks like on the outside, and do not even bother to find out where they stand on the inside. this leads into the next point, We have to remember We are NOT the judge! 1 Cor. 15 and James 4:12. It is not our job to judge a person, leave that up to God, We are pointing out people's sin, instead of loving them where they are. We are called to "Love above all else." Ecclesiates 3:11 says, "He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end." We are all craving for the same thing: to be loved, and accepted!. We have to listen first if we want to be heard, Proverbs 18. And one of the last things she said was, If we say we are a believer, we should act like one. Have a bold sense of sadness not anger.. . . A lot of times I find myself judging someone before I even know them, and when I actually get to know them, they are actually not that bad......So i was sitting in my room tonight playing some praise and worship songs on guitar, and the first part of the message just kept coming back to me, and the verse from Titus, remember where I came from. So I began to look back over my life from the past couple of years, and God has brought me out of a lot, and I often lose sight of where I did come from and what I came through, and I was amazed to see how far God brought me, and molded me into the person I am today. Which made the song "From The Inside Out" By Hillsong. That song is true in my life. I have failed God over and over, and He knows that i will stumble but yet He still covers me with His grace. . . He has in fact changed me from the inside out! .