Clinging to Christ

I am blessed to be able to be on a team where friendships are being created. We encourage each other, we laugh with each other, we challenge each other, and we listen to each other. That, I believe is a good start to a wonderful friendship. I know there will be times when there will be disagreements, but when we have Christ in the middle of our relationship, it is hard to stay upset at another person.

Today’s devotion was about clinging to God with all our might. Just like Jacob clung to the angle on the plains and insisted that the angle bless him, Jacob clung because he had the hope and the desire to be blessed. God doesn’t bless us because we insist that he blesses us, he blesses us because we are in his presence on a consistent basis. Like Jacob, I want to be blessed and the only way I know to be blessed is to be in the presence of Christ, so I’m clinging to him every chance I get.

We are so blessed to be here in Cortez, the people are so gracious and welcoming. We went to two churches yesterday, both Assembly of God churches. They were very different than what I remember other AG churches to be like. Pastor Don talked about Romans 5:12-17, emphasizing grace that goes before and continuing to sanctification and being made perfect in the image of Christ. I came to realize that we are not all that different, that denominations are really that far apart. We all love to share the good news of Jesus Christ with those around us and though we may have different ideas about how we share the love of Christ it is still the love of Christ.