Righteously Redeemed

Follower of Christ Friday  November 11, 2020 Ever been looking for a specific themed video on YouTube, instead find something totally unrelated but something you still needed to see? That was me a few years ago when I stumbled upon Author and Speaker, Christine Caine telling some of her testimony.  (warning this may be a lot of parphrase)  She was talking about when she was in seminary how one of her preaching professors pretty much told her that she did terrible, and that she should never teach / preach to an audience again!!  I expected to next hear how it made her mad, and how she vowed to him that she would "show him."   I mean she is Christine Caine, this great motivating woman who currently speaks internationally to thousands of people.  She overcame it somehow.  However, what I wasn't expecting was to to hear what really happened.  She said it absolutely DEFEATED her.  She felt shame!  She questioned her worth! She didn't want to ...

The other day I walked into a restaurant and this picture caught my eye. The title quickly grabbed my attention and the quote drew me in. I snapped a picture so I could share it with you.  I love this definition of success.  I feel like we get the wrong idea of success way too often. We think and view success as 1. A productive day 2. A prosperous job 3. A picture- perfect family 4. Popularity But what is success really and how does God view success? I think Matthew 5:16 gives us a  beautiful definition of a successful Christian...  "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." A successful Christian is one who let's her light shine and allows God to have the glory. This should be our entire goal...to let our lights shine for Him.  Let our light shine in the good times. Let our lights shine in the bad times. Let our lights shine during our struggles.  Let our lights  in our marriage...