die to self.

"equip with me with Your boldness to share the good news"

that even a meal with a newcomer, talking about light topics, the handshake, the love of Christ will just flow through and touch him.

sometimes some things aren't nice to see with our own eyes.
going by the normal conventions
some people might seem a lil weird.
but it's not our flesh loving these people anyway.
it's Christ in us who loves them and accepts them the way they are.

that whoever who feels a lil weird to you, whether in character, mannerisms or appearance.
rejoice knowing that God so loves everyone that He's working in all our lives to transform us from Glory to Glory.
He did not say from a lowly position to a glorious position.
from Glory to Glory
ultimately it's God's glory in the person's life.
what may be glorious to the flesh and our own eyes, they are just temporal and things of the world.

28 Then they asked him, "What must we DO to DO the WORKS God requires?"

29 Jesus answered,"The WORK of God is this: to believe in the one He has sent."

what must we do? what must we do to be a 'good' Christian?
what must we avoid? what must we avoid to be a 'good' Christian?

where the answer is said by the Author himself.
Just believe in the Son whom the Father has sent.
to just believe.

Matthew 11:28-30