"But Peter said, 'NOT SO, LORD! For I have never eaten anything common or unclean.' And a voice spoke to him again the second time 'What God has cleansed you must not call common.'" Acts 10:14-15
We often times hold onto traditions we have. It may be something that's through your family, or culturally, or even something you just do for no particular reason. The fact of the matter is we all have some sort of a routine. In this piece of Scripture we see God asking Peter to break that routine he was used to. I think God was calling Peter to step out of his comfort zone and go to minister to a completely new people group. Peter was not necessarily a smart man.. Yet God wanted to use him(as we see later in chapter 10) to preach the Gospel to a man who was of a higher status than Peter and probably, as far as the world saw him, smarter.
God wanted to use a seemingly dumb guy to bring the message of His equal Grace!
So there's hope for people like me! God loves to use us stupid people! But we need to be willing to let go of our routines and traditions in life.. Get over your ways and be ready for His ways. God doesn't ask us to go around and teach people about our traditions and to give them a daily schedule of how to live like us. We need to give them the Bible and show them how to live like Christ. Be very weary of anyone, aside from Christ, who tells you how to live like them... or says 'Just follow these 5 steps from my life and yours will be perfect' IT'S Bogus..
OK so the point is everyone needs to come to know God, cause without Him..well, life stinks and is meaningless and only gets worse when you die...way worse, and yes i am referring to hell, cause simply said.. that's where ya go if you don't know the Lord. So anyway, if we are holding on to our traditions and routines in life too tightly we may miss an opportunity to share Christ's Love with someone. Tattooed gangsters need to know God loves um, just as much as pasty white kids playing halo do. Don't get so stuck into your old traditions or routines that you neglect someone who may have grown up differently than you.. Yet at the same time remember you can influence the world without partaking with it! We aren't of this world. So what it all boils down to is that: in Heaven, the way you open presents, the football team you cheer for, or the neighborhood you grew up in won't matter whether or not you have a complete love for Jesus is all that will matter.
Live for Jesus and nothing else. Jesus Christ is the only way to go to Heaven and apart from Jesus there is no meaning in life. Dont live for anything else but to please God! Have a great day and God Bless!
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