Lick it!

 

Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

TDAgiantslayer@gmail.com 

 

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July 9th - Saturday - A Father Daughter/Son conference called PROTECTOR! Speakers on how to protect your son and daughter Emotionally, physically, sexually, socially and spiritually. Ages 10 and up if you feel your student is mature enough. Price $100 per family. At HillSpring Church New prague south of the Twin Cities

Just landed a speaker who will challenge you how to keep your kids safe from human trafficking… you say well my kid will never fall into that… oh not so fast. You obviously don’t know what you are talking about… so get ready to sign up!

 

 

Steve Jobs of Apple once said that the definition of a superbly designed product is you want to lick it!… So my question to you today is… Your Christian walk… do people want to lick it?

 

 

Gross… Ok, the point of Jobs quote is that if something is really desirable you want more of it, You want to fully experience it. I love guitars… yes i play them, but I also love the design of them. A great car can be called sexy… and I have heard people say things like “it was so exciting… I would eat it”. 

 

Maybe you have something that you just love the design of it. I have a really cool knife… yes it is sharp,,, but the design of it is so radical. It is wood, gray steel, curved, with notches in it, and a cool dovetail, with a knurled back end… But Im not going to lick it… LOL, lose a tongue…. but it is so much more then a knife.

 

And I also love a great pair of cool looking boots… weird I know. But I have had some boots that have two layers of soles, with two layers of leather binding, with outside steel toes and killer stitching up the sides and back. A wicked thick still zipper on the sides and the eyelids are extra big and silver and the laces are super thick rugged nylon black and silver …. I could eat dessert out of it…

Don’t even get me started on motorcycles… My wife and I were looking at a custom bike and it was so flawless and beautiful I just calmly said “I would make love to you on that bike… weird right? Yea she thought so… but It just popped into my head and out of my mouth.

 

It begs me to ask myself what would make my Christian walk one that people look at and think… wow! That is amazing… or what would make people look at my life and say … I want that life…it seems so desirable.

 

Here’s a clue. It has very little with how much you know the bible, or how much you go to church… It has a lot to do with Fruit… Who doesn’t like fruit?

Back in the time of Christ fruit didn’t exactly come in huge bountiful quantities… the land was dry, most fruit was a dry date type. Really exotic fruits like bananas and berries and coconuts etc… were almost unavailable… So when God uses fruit as an example he is stating how desirable and how rare it is in todays world. 

 

Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

 

“Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs.” –Ephesians 4:29 (NIV)

 

When our lives are filled with the fruits of the spirit… we become so desirable… Ever see that popular person who just doesn’t get rattled by what people say or do… he just loves them anyway. They have an air about them that makes them desirable. 

We live in a world where it is ok to practice recreational hate and sarcasm and rage…. We don’t have to necessary preach the gospel every where we go if we just simple practice the fruits… We will stand out just by being loving… yes of course we share Jesus, but even outside of that we practice the fruits.

What makes my Christianity desirable? Its filled with fruit… rare exotic delicious fruit.

May the goal this week be that someone looks at our life and says… wow that life is designed so well… I want to lick it.