Day 1: Heart Check
Have you ever had a medical check-up to see if you were healthy? It’s time to determine the health of your heart. But it’s not a physical you need; it’s a spiritual.
Day 2: Power Play
When engaging others in conversations about Christ, we need boldness. But where does that boldness come from? Is it an attitude we can generate ourselves?
Day 3: Exploring Outside
Stop and think of a situation where you were an outsider. How did you feel? What was going through your head? The idea of being an outsider can be uncomfortable, so to think of people as outsiders feels harsh and uninviting.
Day 4: Divine Appointments
There are people at the threshold of faith, ready to believe in Jesus if someone will simply explain how. Why do we fail to recognize this? It might be that we’ve gotten used to looking at people based on external appearances rather than internal realities.
Day 5: Hide and Seek
“Where are you?” That was God’s first question to Adam and Eve when they turned away in sin. It is not that they were physically lost, though he and his wife were attempting to hide from God (Genesis 3:8). But God cannot be tricked.
Day 6: Bad Company
The most common criticism of Jesus was also the truth. He was a “friend of sinners.” After all, they were the ones he came to save. Rather than withdrawing from those whose sin made him uncomfortable, Jesus spent time with them.
Day 7: Surprisingly Close
Of all the people who gave Jesus trouble during his time on earth, no group was harder on him than the teachers of the law. You may not have imagined this man to be as teachable and open as he was as he was to Jesus’s teaching about the Great Commandment.
