Journey through John 9:8-12
Good Morning Church Family – Journey Through John
Read John 9:8-12
Devo Thought: While Julie and I lived in Starkville, we attended First Baptist Church. We were active and involved in the life of our small group (a young married class) and in the life of the church as a whole. About halfway through my master's program, I felt a call to ministry. We left a year later, and I began attending seminary in North Carolina. The Lord grew me and Julie tremendously in that first year or, so we were in North Carolina. I decided that it was time for me to be ordained as a gospel minister, and we returned to First Baptist Starkville. As a part of the ordination process, I had to be examined by a group of ordained men from FBC Starkville (the pastor and a few others). I remember having a conversation with them about my personal testimony and calling into ministry. That Sunday I preached, and in the evening, I was ordained. After everything was over, I recall having a conversation with one of the men who was a part of the ordination council and who I had interacted with regularly while we had been members there. He looked at me and said that I was a different person than I had been before leaving. What had changed was that I had really started spending time with Jesus and people had really started to disciple me. When you spend time with Jesus, your life will be different. This is what the man born blind experienced, and people immediately noticed. They see him and begin to question whether it is really him or not. Jesus had changed the man’s life forever, and people noticed. Does your life look like that? Has spending time with Jesus made you look different?
Let us ask God to help us to allow Jesus to change our lives as we spend time with him.
Read John 9:8-12
Devo Thought: While Julie and I lived in Starkville, we attended First Baptist Church. We were active and involved in the life of our small group (a young married class) and in the life of the church as a whole. About halfway through my master's program, I felt a call to ministry. We left a year later, and I began attending seminary in North Carolina. The Lord grew me and Julie tremendously in that first year or, so we were in North Carolina. I decided that it was time for me to be ordained as a gospel minister, and we returned to First Baptist Starkville. As a part of the ordination process, I had to be examined by a group of ordained men from FBC Starkville (the pastor and a few others). I remember having a conversation with them about my personal testimony and calling into ministry. That Sunday I preached, and in the evening, I was ordained. After everything was over, I recall having a conversation with one of the men who was a part of the ordination council and who I had interacted with regularly while we had been members there. He looked at me and said that I was a different person than I had been before leaving. What had changed was that I had really started spending time with Jesus and people had really started to disciple me. When you spend time with Jesus, your life will be different. This is what the man born blind experienced, and people immediately noticed. They see him and begin to question whether it is really him or not. Jesus had changed the man’s life forever, and people noticed. Does your life look like that? Has spending time with Jesus made you look different?
Let us ask God to help us to allow Jesus to change our lives as we spend time with him.
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