Jesus didn't fit the mold

Luke 7:31"To what then shall I compare the men of this generation, and what are they like? 32"They are like children who sit in the market place and call to one another, and they say, 'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.' 33"For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, 'He has a demon!'…

John was the square peg that would not fix into the round hole of the religious.  His edges were too sharp.  He just didn't fix in.  He asked the religious: Who warned you to come?  He told the King you can't have your brother's wife!

We like everything easy.  We are a spoiled generation.  The Word said we are the "Lukewarms".  No sharp edged for us.  Give us a "smooth message", preacher.  Dont disturb my spiritual slumber.  Knock it off with those sharp edges and get with our program.  

I once heard an old saying that has stuck with me for a long time:  Determine which way the crowd is going and go the opposite direction.  I have often used that in life's decisions.  

We are to not be men pleasers.  The Word says we are to be salty.  We have a distinct flavor about us that keeps flesh from rotting.  If we have lost our saltiness we are good for nothing but to be thrown out.

The Word says we are to be lights that cannot be hid.  And the purpose of light is to show men their evil deeds.  Everything that does make manifest is light.  Because men's deeds are evil they hate the light.  We have become a square peg with sharp edges to them.

The Word say beware if all men speak good about you.  See the crowd and go the other way.  This word from Paul pretty much sums up on one sentence what I have been trying to say all morning!

"Obviously, I’m not trying to win the approval of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal, I would not be Christ’s servant." 
- Galatians 1:10 NLT

Be blessed, Billy and Jan

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