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If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet. Matthew 10: 14
When I read this scripture, I think about all the people I try to talk to about Jesus.
Some are open to hear everything I’m trying to say.
Some are ever so patient smiling but not interested.
Some are totally not willing to hear, brushing it aside.
I realized I first need to find the way in.
That I could communicate that they are open to hearing.
Through offering prayer.
Through making some kind of human connection.
Through loving them.
Because the whole reason I want them to know this truth, is out of love.
That they live not die.
That they get filled with the peace that surpasses all understanding.
That they get filled with a hope that never runs dry.
That they get the friend that sticks closer than a brother.
That they get eternal life in a good good place.
I noticed in this scripture, Jesus says when in a home, or town.
Meaning we have made ways to try to reach them.
Meaning we have ways to try to seek them.
Meaning we have made ways to try to get into their space, to be close to them, to connect, that they would hear.
Finding the way in,
Then if the don’t hear.
Then if the don’t listen.
They if they don’t receive this truth.
Only then do we release them.
But this scripture is showing that we had the opportunity to speak something.
That we would have had the opportunity that they knew where we stood and what we were proclaiming.
That they all would get an opportunity to hear.
May we know that we know that we know we will have opportunities to speak truth, to communicate Jesus’s life giving truth to others.
May we know that we know that we know Jesus will help us find ways in, into the town, into the home—the grocery store, the nail salon, the car maintenance shop, the restaurant, the where ever—where we can speak truth to them.
May we know that we know that we know if we have done this, Jesus is releasing us to shake the guilt off, the dust of their ashes off, the death choice off us, from those who don’t receive our words—at least at first— and knowing we did what Jesus called us to do, plant the seeds, while we trust that He who loves them more we than we do, will grow the plant, the fruit, the faith inside-for His word does not return void.
love kathlynn