Finding Your Wings

And The Oscar Goes...........

Micah 6:8 ESV 

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Philippians 4:13ESV

13 I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Last night the Oscar Awards were televised and many were awarded the prized gold statue(s) in celebration and commemoration of their acting skills, and acting achievements. Some were awarded the golden statues in celebration and commemoration of their skills in making a movie look and sound realistic in appearance .

Yet, at the end of the day these awards and these actors were only portraying a certain event or a certain character(s). Often those is society will either live their live vicariously through the actors, and even confuse some of them with reality.

The message that I want to communicate this morning is in the fact that those of us that are not winning gold statues are not to be envious, but rather to praise the eternal reward that awaits those that follow Christ Jesus.

None of the awards last night went to those that clothed and fed the poor, those that helped to heal the sick, those that form relationships with the downtrodden. As we journey through this season of Lent we must focus on the cross in which Christ Jesus sacrificed himself for our eternal reward.

A golden statue can never give one the strength that they need to endure, it can never give us the will to go out as the Body of Christ to the world and for the world. We that follow Christ go out in ministry not for the acclamation, not for the pats on the back, but rather in the fact  it is who God has made and called us to be. 

Beloved, my prayer for you today is in the knowledge that we that follow Christ have already achieved the victory and that Christ paid the price for our eternal reward. this prize can never be represented or fulfilled by a gold statue, only a wooden cross and an empty tomb achieved that.

You are all winners in Christ, go out today shouting and claiming the victory.

Pastor Tim.