Daily Wisodm

1 Thess 1:3 “Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father.”

Don’t fall prey to being popular with man over being purposeful for God, sameness over strangeness. Christians are called to be a peculiar people (Tit 2:14). You can’t be more focused on fitting in with the world, than following Jesus. Following the rules for popularity will cut you off from Christ-likeness, popular and purposeful are often an oxymoron. Popularity is self-obsessiveness, you become more concerned about building up your personal brand than building up those you enter act with. You start using people for jolts of personal self-esteem instead of loving them as Jesus loves you. And just because something is popular does not mean it’s truth, wrong can be done in popular ways (Isa 5:20). It’s not about what’s publicly popular, personally profitable or politically correct. Paul shows us that our works are to be motivated in Faith, Hope and Love towards others. It’s not about your ability to appear popular, Jesus doesn’t need you to be popular to be eternally productive. But, He does ask you to produce Faith, Hope and Love in others.  You may not be trendy to the world, but you’ll be treasured in Heaven!

Don’t let trendy contradict truth, don’t fold to foolishness.

HSAY… Todd