Spring training started last week at
FredWes!
I put on the old ball glove and went
over the ground rules for the Home Run life and we used a Hall-of-Famer,
Joseph, to illustrate how it plays out.
When
you play the game according to God’s pattern you have no idea how good it can
get!
That’s what Paul tells the believers
at Ephesus.
“For
this reason I kneel before
the Father, from
whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I
pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through
his Spirit in your inner being, so
that Christ may dwell in your hearts through
faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and
established in love, may
have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to
grasp how wide and long and high and deep is
the love of Christ, and
to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to
the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is
able to
do immeasurably more than all we ask or
imagine, according to his power that
is at work within us, to
him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for
ever and ever! Amen.” Ephesians 3:14-20
God
loves you more than you will ever know!
Until
you submit to God’s pattern you will never know His love. Even then you will
need to stay connected and touch all the bases. You will never find this love
if you are running the bases backward.
Home
plate is where you connect with God! That connection allows you to know His
love. Until you make that connection you will never know the joy of His love.
Once
you have a meaningful faith connection with God you can move to first base. First base is where His love grows in you and
shapes your personal character.
Second
base is where knowing God’s love and growing in His love allows you to show His
love to others. I was introduced to God’s love through people who were second
base people and knew how to show God’s love. Perhaps you were, too.
Third
base is results base where you begin to see the harvest from sowing the seeds
of His love.
When
you play according to His pattern you will know His love in increasing measure.
Connect
at Home Plate and know His love.
First
base is where you can grow in His love.
Second
base is where you show the love you know.
Third
base is where you growing in love and you showing His love results in others
knowing His love.
Then
you head back home to connect to His love at deeper level!
The
goal of the Home Run life is to live your life according to His pattern so you
can experience the fullness of His great love, the fellowship of His great love and the fruit resulting from His great love!
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