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How does a Christian navigate this crazy, mixed-up world? We are not the first generation of God’s people to ask such a question. The Psalmist posed the same question in different words in a different millenium. “When the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” (Psalm 11:3) So what can we do in this world that is changing daily, especially when we recognize that not all of these changes are for the good?

Sometimes God’s servants can find themselves choking spiritually. The demands of family, career, and ministry can cut off the spiritual oxygen that is needed to persevere in this world. Even the most seasoned saints can find themselves gasping for air, being overwhelmed by the trials of the Christian life.

Jesus provided the cure for spiritual choking in John 15 when he tells us to abide in Him.

It’s true…His ways are not our ways and that’s why He is God and we aren’t! Someday He’ll make it plain to us. Right now we just need to let our true colors show as a result of “swelling” that has entered our lives. The end result will be that others will see the beautiful colors of our God reflected through our distress. Are your true colors showing?

 

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Justin Hannekin, youth pastor of Taneytown Church, was still sleeping when he received a call from his dad very early one Saturday morning six years ago asking Justin to come baptize him. Gary Hannekin, a member of Faith Church, Glen Burnie, had been saved for years but hadn’t been baptized. Gary said that while working at the church that morning he heard the water in the baptismal bubbling. He asked God who the water was for and God told Gary it was for him.

Tracy Robison, director of New Song Bible Church’s Manna Ministries, coordinates a church-sponsored supplemental food program that gives 300 families a month a big boost to their food budget, offers church members a chance to do ministry and sews kingdom seeds.