PRaP
1/7/08
“What’s
In Your Dash?”
What’s
in your dash? When you look at a
grave marker it has the date you were born and then the “dash” and then the
date in which you leave the earth. I
want to know what your dash was. Let’s
look at the dash of a car and look at the odometer.
Do you live from 0-20, or from 20-40, or from 40-60, or from 60-80, or
from 80-100? Most choose to hang
out in the middle at around 50. There
are not too many who are willing to take that chance of stepping out and head
towards 100. Like I heard this
morning on the radio coming in, life is a rollercoaster, it has many ups and
downs and most people choose to skip those and stay on the little coasters known
as the kiddie rides. They are slow
and safe and don’t move too fast. Most
people are content with warming the pew on Sunday mornings and singing out of
their hymnal which by now has their fingerprints embedded into it because they
hold it in the same way and the impregnation of their backside is in the pew
because they sit in the exact same place every time they go to church.
Come on Jesus wants us to live life not just be a part of it.
What are people going to remember about your dash?
Here
look at this dash:
36Now
one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, so he went to the
Pharisee's house and reclined at the table. 37When a woman who had lived a
sinful life in that town learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee's house,
she brought an alabaster jar of perfume, 38and as she stood behind him at his
feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with
her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them.
39When
the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man
were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she
is—that she is a sinner."
40Jesus
answered him, "Simon, I have something to tell you."
"Tell me, teacher," he said.
41"Two
men owed money to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii,[d]
and the other fifty. 42Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he
canceled the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?"
43Simon
replied, "I suppose the one who had the bigger debt canceled."
"You have judged correctly," Jesus
said.
44Then
he turned toward the woman and said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I
came into your house. You did not give me any water for my feet, but she wet my
feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. 45You did not give me a kiss,
but this woman, from the time I entered, has not stopped kissing my feet. 46You
did not put oil on my head, but she has poured perfume on my feet. 47Therefore,
I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven—for she loved much. But he who
has been forgiven little loves little."
48Then
Jesus said to her, "Your sins are forgiven."
49The
other guests began to say among themselves, "Who is this who even forgives
sins?"
50Jesus
said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you; go in peace."
Now
this woman knowing she was a sinner came to Jesus and anointed Him with a jar of
perfume. She stepped out of the box
in which she lived to make sure that her “dash” was remembered.
Not only remembered but written in God’s Word to be remembered forever.
Her sins were forgiven and she was able to truly begin to “dash”.
What are you waiting for? “Dash”
for the finish line! Put your
life’s odometer on 100 and see how it will change.
Use the Bible it really works!
Key
Verse:
Luke
7:37
When a woman who had lived a sinful life in that town learned that Jesus was
eating at the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster jar of perfume,
Luke
7:36-38 (in
Context) Luke
7 (Whole
Chapter)
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