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The Sermon Sunday morning was very good.  “Thou Shalt Not Steal” Exodus 20:15 was revealed to me yesterday in a new way.  Many times we think of stealing as taking a physical, literal object you can put your hands on.  But Roger stated several things that I had to say “guilty” about.

*Taking credit for something I didn’t do.

*Illegal downloads

A new sense of what this could mean, just again helped me scream out emotionally “Oh God I need you so much!! Thank you God that you love me and forgive me!”

Last night was the children’s musical and it was so good!  There were a few little mic malfunctions, and briefly forgetting line, and some kids that were really jamming out to the music, but for me-that’s what makes it.  When I was Chloe’s age, anytime I was in a musical or recital, I always wanted to put on make-up.  So, last night I asked Chloe if she wanted to put a little make-up on.  She looked at me like I was crazy and said “Why in the world would I want to do that?!” 

Today at work the exterminating man came in.  I asked him how I could eliminate the existence of ants, and he told me that wasn’t possible.  He said that even if a product or person tells you they can completely eliminate ants, they aren’t telling the truth.  I explained to him that as a child in Tx. I’d laid down in a bed of fire ants and now have an extreme phobia.  We started talking about a few other phobias and such.  He told me that he used to be a volunteer firefighter and that he had a phobia of moving from the fire ladder onto the house.  He then told me about a lady that he exterminates for that has a phobia of leaving her house-so she doesn’t.  As in she doesn’t even go outside.  He told me that if she needs to see a physician that he either comes to her home or that an ambulance comes and that she must be sedated and then she goes to the Dr.  My goodness.  I teared up. He said that his daughter has helped her clean her house, and that sometimes he’ll take vegetables over there.  Last time he did, she said “Well, I hope you can eat with me.”  He told her, “Of course, that’s why I brought this.”  You know on the outside looking in at this woman, most of us would say “Just come out.  It’s ok.  Get over it.”  In her mind though, she just can’t.  It’s too much.  It’s so hard to “help” the kind of person that looks like they don’t want help.  But I believe even though this lady looks like she doesn’t want help-she does.  The exterminator told me that when he goes to her house that the only part of her body you will see outside is her hand slipping out the door just enough to unlock it. 

That’s it in a nutshell.  We look at people illogically locked inside their house of sin and say “leave!!”  This is correct.  They do need to leave.  But people need to know that you care about them first.  Jesus did this.  He cared for people openly. 

A person may unlock their heart in the most unassuming way and then go back inside to see what’s gonna happen.  If that exterminator wasn’t looking for her to unlock that door so he could come in, she’d miss it.  If you and I aren’t looking for that moment that God wants you to impact a person in whatever way is best for Him-we’ll miss it. 

Our M-fuge camp pastor Moses said this “Others don’t want to only hear ‘I love you.’ They want to see it.”   I believe he’s right.

The Way of Love

 1 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. 2If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing. 3-7If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.

   Love never gives up.
   Love cares more for others than for self.
   Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
   Love doesn't strut,
   Doesn't have a swelled head,
   Doesn't force itself on others,
   Isn't always "me first,"
   Doesn't fly off the handle,
   Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
   Doesn't revel when others grovel,
   Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
   Puts up with anything,
   Trusts God always,
   Always looks for the best,
   Never looks back,
   But keeps going to the end.

 8-10Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.

 11When I was an infant at my mother's breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.

 12We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!

 13But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.

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