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Me: \u00a0Are you playing basketball?<\/p>\n

Prodigal: \u00a0Yes, I am playing with my friend.<\/p>\n

Me: \u00a0How are you doing?<\/p>\n

Prodigal: \u00a0He’s so fast he can blow out the candle and jump into bed before it gets dark.<\/p>\n

Me: \u00a0That must be a tough game then.<\/p>\n

Prodigal: \u00a0It sure is.<\/p>\n

Me: \u00a0Well let me share while you are resting.<\/p>\n

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This is from the book You Can Change by Tim Chester<\/p>\n

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God is using the different people, the contrasting personalities, in your church to change your heart. \u00a0He’s using the difficult people, the annoying people, the sinful people. \u00a0He’s placed you together so you can rub off each other’s rough edges. \u00a0It’s as if God has put us, like rocks, into a bag and is shaking us about so that we collide with one another. \u00a0Sometimes sparks fly, but gradually we become beautiful, smooth gemstones. \u00a0Remember the next time someone is rubbing you the wrong way that God is smoothing you down! \u00a0God has give you the person in his love as a gift to make you holy. \u00a0Sinclair Ferguson comments, “The church is a community in which we receive spiritual help, but also one in which deep-seated problems will come to the surface and will require treatment….We often discover things about our own hearts which we never anticipated.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Guess what I am one of those annoying sinful people. \u00a0I know sparks are flying but lets focus on Christ so that we become beautiful smooth gemstones.<\/p>\n

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Proverbs 21:21<\/p>\n

Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n

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