Guest SOAP Post from Crystal.
The reading for Friday is Luke Chapter 16.
Today our guest SOAP post is by Crystal, who will be serving as a mentor for the next session of Blogging Through the Bible in 90 Days here on MomsToolbox! Thanks, Crystal, for stepping up to both challenges!
Here is what Crystal heard:
Striving for creative survival
Scripture: Luke 16:9
I want you to be smart in the same way-but for what is right-using every adversity to stimulate you to creative survival, to concentrate your attention on the bare essentials, so you’ll live, really live, and not complacently just get by on good behavior.”-– The Message
Observation:
After reading this passage, I thought about how scared that manager must have been about possibly losing his job. But did he throw a pity party? No way! He immediately checked his surroundings and devised a way to survive no matter what. By reducing the debts the community owed to his master, he was sure to have a place to go if and when he was thrown out into the street. But did that happen? No! His master was impressed with how he turned adversity to his advantage!
Application:
When you fall on hard times, what is the first thing you do? Do you summon your own pity party, complete with hats and balloons? Or do you look at your situation and figure out how you can turn it to your advantage? Jesus wants us to always be thinking on our feet, always ready to move if need be. He wants us to be street smart, but for GOOD, using adversity as a stepstool to something better.
Prayer:
Father I thank You for Your word, and I thank You for allowing me to learn from the ‘crooked’ manager. Help me to be like him, but for good. Help me to always be thinking of how I can change adversity to advantage, and help me to never fall into self-pity. Instead, help me to be creative with my survival, thankful to be given this life!
Crystal Senter Brown is a mama, wife, author, poet and Justice of the Peace. She blogs at ShesJustASmallTownGirl.
What about you? What did you see and hear in your reading of Luke 16?
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