Good day! I’m
Duane Matz and this is Today’s Living Word
Happy New Year! Last year I wanted to come up with one word
as a benchmark for the coming year and the word that the Lord gave me was
“engage.”
I sought to engage (connect) the culture of the world and the
culture of the church with God’s Word. …the Bible.
It turns out that the word I selected was even more personal
than I thought it would be. God reminded me (Oh look! A squirrel!) that I have
a bad habit of disengaging in one on one situations and conversations. I’m
often off in a different world even before I make eye contact with the person I
am conversing with.
It’s a character flaw that I am not proud of, and with the
help of the Lord, and the Holy Spirit I am determined to press on, reminding
myself that there will always be squirrels, and I would be better off engaging
the person who I am conversing with the way Jesus did!.
Checking out of a conversation puts me in Duane’s world, and
that is a small world indeed. It winds up being just me and the squirrels.
Lord, help me to engage with people around me, like Jesus
engaged people around Him. Remember his encounter with the rich young ruler?
Jesus did not say “this is what you must do to inherit eternal, O look a squirrel”
Is that what He did! No Mr 10:21 Then Jesus, looking at him,
loved him, That’s the target, that’s the
example Jesus gave us. Lord help us all as we seek to engage (connect) with
others!
I’m Duane Matz and that’s today’s Living Word
