Jonathots Daily Blog
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“What caused you to come to our little town?”
I hear this question everywhere I go.
I guess there’s some sort of assumption that I should be elsewhere or some place the inquirer deems to be more important. Yet I learned a long time ago–it’s not about where you go. It’s about what you do when you get there.
After all, we have a dual responsibility in life: to enter the doors that are open and to make sure when we finish, we leave behind blessing.
I have two reasons for coming and going in my life. They haven’t changed in forty years. Although they’re not always compatible with the inclinations society’s trend, I refuse to change them, because the quality they bring to my life and to those around me is undeniable.
1. I come so that people can have life and it abundantly.
Yes, I enjoy arriving in situations where people have given up on the excitement of just being alive and allowing a fresh stream of consciousness to re-baptize them with the joy of living.
“Abundant life” is when you’re no longer afraid of the change that certainly must come. You know you have the ability to love and be loved.
2. I come that your joy may be full.
Joy is underrated. It is a happiness we select because we know that temporary set-backs are always transformed by patience, perseverance and purpose.
God is in control. In other words, He has established a beautiful universe and a natural order, and if we learn it, it will feed us instead of attack us.
This is why I come–and you would think, with such a universal message of gentleness and encouragement, that I would be welcomed with open arms and a sense of anticipation everywhere I go.
But as long as there are individuals who gain strength by hurting others or limiting the capacity of their fellow-humans, I will have my enemies.
I know who they are, and I know where they are. But as Jesus requested, I love them too.
I have come to bring abundant life, with the aspiration that joy can be made full.
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