OK. You've convinced me. I won't try to change me, the me that draws some and repels others, the me that I like . . . most of the time . . . except when I don't . . . the me that wants to be like Jesus, but keeps falling flat, the me that lets Him pick me up, dust me off, and send me out to try all over again. Thank you for the permission you've just given me . . . and may God have mercy on your soul, Pal, 'cause if you're wrong about this, I'm throwin' you under the bus should we both get busted for it . . . just so ya know. https://themjkxn.substack.com/p/ive-gotta-be-me
This is so good!! I remember distinctly after I had my first church district and three months into preaching twice each Sabbath I was exhausted. I was trying to be someone I'm not. For the next 32 years I said; "I'll just be the best version of me and that will have to be good enough." I thoroughly loved and enjoyed ministry.
“You’ll find out you have many conversions…” yes! I have thought many times over my life, okay, NOW I’m a Christian. I wasn’t one before, not really. But that’s not true, it’s just that God keeps revealing Himself more and more, and I keep changing and being changed by Him. Each time I think I’m done, until I realize I’m not.
Yes! Jesus calls the person we see in the mirror, for the person we are, and will become. Everything I was, and everything I am, God molds and uses every day! Thanks, Mike, for your wise perspectives!
What a wonderful and affirming article. At times I have fought against who God made me to be, wishing I was a different version. But when I am real/authentic, I make the biggest difference. Thank you.
OK. You've convinced me. I won't try to change me, the me that draws some and repels others, the me that I like . . . most of the time . . . except when I don't . . . the me that wants to be like Jesus, but keeps falling flat, the me that lets Him pick me up, dust me off, and send me out to try all over again. Thank you for the permission you've just given me . . . and may God have mercy on your soul, Pal, 'cause if you're wrong about this, I'm throwin' you under the bus should we both get busted for it . . . just so ya know. https://themjkxn.substack.com/p/ive-gotta-be-me
Thank you so much Mike
Very encouraging. Thank you.
This is so good!! I remember distinctly after I had my first church district and three months into preaching twice each Sabbath I was exhausted. I was trying to be someone I'm not. For the next 32 years I said; "I'll just be the best version of me and that will have to be good enough." I thoroughly loved and enjoyed ministry.
Thanks, Mike!
“You’ll find out you have many conversions…” yes! I have thought many times over my life, okay, NOW I’m a Christian. I wasn’t one before, not really. But that’s not true, it’s just that God keeps revealing Himself more and more, and I keep changing and being changed by Him. Each time I think I’m done, until I realize I’m not.
Yes! Jesus calls the person we see in the mirror, for the person we are, and will become. Everything I was, and everything I am, God molds and uses every day! Thanks, Mike, for your wise perspectives!
What a wonderful and affirming article. At times I have fought against who God made me to be, wishing I was a different version. But when I am real/authentic, I make the biggest difference. Thank you.