Find Your Peeps – Monday

Week 2 |IN – Loving People More

Listen instead of reading

Take a Moment

Ask God what He wants to show you before reading today

Read The Daily

A little farther up the shore he saw two other brothers, James and John, sitting in a boat with their father, Zebedee, repairing their nets. And he called them to come, too. 22 They immediately followed him, leaving the boat and their father behind. (Matthew 4:21-22)

Chuck, Bob, Todd, Matt, Jimmy, Kevin, Chris, Katie, Mel, Cassie, Emmett, Travis, Alisha, Eric and Aaron.  Those names might not mean much to you, but they do to me.  Why?  Because they are people that I consistently do life with each week outside of my family.  They are some of my closest friends and guess what?  We all need to find our people.  

When Jesus steps on the scene, He’s clear about what He came to do: He came to find what was lost, repair what was broken, and rescue what was stolen. He came to bring you back to God and remind you how relationship with others was always meant to be.  So, when He started His ministry, Jesus started by finding friends.  Don’t miss this. The Son of God and Savior of the world wasn’t a one-man show.

If we really believe He came to show us what it means to be human, we can’t ignore the fact that Jesus had community. He had friends He did life with, ate with, asked things of, and fought for. How did He go about finding these guys? Let’s dive in together and, in the process, bust some myths about making friends. Starting with …

Myth #1: Making friends takes too much time.

Something to notice in the reading is that community wasn’t meant to be this thing you add to your life if you have time. It was meant to be how life happens. James and John were doing their normal day job together. This is just how it was in Jesus’ culture.  The idea that making friends takes too much time is a result of living in a culture where we operate solo. Here’s some easy advice.  Think of all the things you do and try to do as many of them as possible with some other people.  That’s all I try to do each and ever week.  

Prayer for the Day

God what are you  showing me?  What am I going to do about it? 

God help me to see one person that I can serve through a kind word, random act of kindness, or simple gift today?

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