Making Adjustments

I received the below devotional in my email this morning.  I highly recommend this brother's devotionals, regardless of your vocation in life we need good solid information to guide and encourage us in our walk.  Please take special note of the last paragraph.

Blessings & Peace

~Robert

TGIF Today God Is First Volume 1 by Os Hillman
Sunday, March 25 2012

..."Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some." - John 21:6

A former client of mine was the marketing director of a large food brokerage company and told me a story about one of their client grocery stores located in the upper Midwest. It seems that the store could not understand why at a certain time every winter sales plummeted. They studied their product line and interviewed customers. They did everything possible to uncover the mystery. Finally, someone made a remarkable discovery that changed everything.

It seemed that whenever it was really cold outside, the manager raised the temperature in the store. When customers came into the store it was too warm for them, so they removed their coats and placed them in their shopping carts. This meant less room for food and resulted in reduced sales overall. They lowered the temperature of the store, and as a result, the sales climbed back to the levels they were accustomed to. Their adjustment resulted in restoring sales levels.

Jesus stood on the shoreline and watched Peter and a few of the disciples fish. Jesus yelled from the shoreline asking if they had caught anything. They had not. He then suggested they cast their line on the other side of the boat. Without knowing the person who was addressing them, they took His advice. They began catching so many fish they could not bring them in.

Adjusting our lives to God is the first thing that has to happen in order to begin experiencing Him in our daily lives. For some, it is simply following the advice of those above us. For others, it may require a major change in our job situation. Still, for others it could mean making changes in relationships. Whatever the case, you can be sure that until we adjust our lives to God we will not receive His full blessing. Ask Him today where you need to adjust to Him. 

Forgiveness

@CSLewisDaily: To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you - #CSLewis

Blessings & Peace

Robert
robt.wallace@gmail.com

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The Lost

Luke 15:1 ESV - YouVersion.com: Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him.2�And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, "This man receives sinners and eats with them."

From the beginning of mankind's fall until the end of this age, our Father's business has been and will always remain the same; the redemption of mankind to Himself. In another verse on the same issue Jesus made the statement, "But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick." ~Matthew 9:12 We who are saved by God's grace, were the very one's Christ was speaking of in this verse.

We all share the same root of sin and sickness! Our Father sent Jesus to show us His love made perfect. To show us how HE loves us and cares for us. Yes, Christ received sinners and ate meals with them. How else could HE show them the depth of God's love. Now, Jesus lives in us and by our Father's grace and the indwelling of His Holy Spirit, we are able to share this same love and grace.

We are called to do nothing less than love each other and spread God's Good News throughout our place in this world. Join me in asking our Father for the fullness of His love to fill us to overflowing.

Blessings & Peace

~Robert