FCWC12: Tuesday Morning

This morning, Jeff gave the message.

He related FCWC to a mountain: we're away from many thing, and have moments to connect with God, but the problem is, we drive up to the mountain, fill up our tank, and just drive away.

God gives us reminders and promises in the bible to expect great things:

²⁸ Do you not know?
   Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
   the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
   and his understanding no one can fathom.
²⁹ He gives strength to the weary
   and increases the power of the weak.
³⁰ Even youths grow tired and weary,
   and young men stumble and fall;
³¹ but those who hope in the LORD
   will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
   they will run and not grow weary,
   they will walk and not be faint.
~Isaiah 40 (NIV)

¹¹ For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. ¹² Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. ¹³ You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. ¹⁴ I will be found by you,” declares the LORD, “and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you,” declares the LORD, “and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.”
~Jeremiah 29 (NIV)

The danger of being on the mountain: we make it about us. We talk about the awesome things we did, and how we were blessed, and we turn the attention away from God.

Do you want this week to change you? Do you want the mountain to matter? You can not make it about you. We need to be humble servants just as Jesus was.

²⁴ A dispute also arose among them as to which of them was considered to be greatest. ²⁵ Jesus said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those who exercise authority over them call themselves Benefactors. ²⁶ But you are not to be like that. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who rules like the one who serves. ²⁷ For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.
~Luke 22 (NIV)

God wants to kill our pride. He wants us to have humility, and wants everything to be about Him.

God is not making you do any of this, but He is giving you the opportunity to be humble.