The Hardest thing in the world to do is to find someone who believes in you

You know how sometimes you go somewhere and there’s a guy speaking but your mind is somewhere totally different? Well, i do that alot. Sometimes, i think that’s a good thing.

Some of you may know that one of my heroes is Chuck Swindoll. Today he came to chapel and spoke  about the conflict between Paul and Barnabus in Acts 15:36-41.

A couple of nuggets from what he actually said:

Disagreements are inevitable, even with the ungodly.

Two ingredients:

Issues that arise from principles.

Perspectives that can come from personalities.

Each side may have valid point which are hard to value from our perspective. Here, the issue is, “what do you do with someone who has defected? Paul adheres to the principle while Barnabus looks at the man and chooses to give him a second chance.”

The thing is, both can be right. Paul is acting as prophet and Barnabus as priest. Maybe the dual effect of Paul’s prophetic rejection and Barnabus’ priestly compassion led Mark to make some changes that led to Paul saying in 2 Timothy 4:11, “Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is very useful to me for ministry.”

And what i got out of it which he didnt actually say:

I desire to be discipled. I think it would be huge in my season of life for an older man, further down a similar road, to guide me and teach me some of the things he has learned. So pray for that. I’ve already asked one guy and my friend John just told me to ask Chuck. So im going to wander around campus for a short while to see if i can find him. Why not, right?

Ive prayed for someone to reach out to me but that just hasnt happened. Oh well. moving forward. Please pray that the Lord would lead me in this pursuit.

i leave you with my favorite Chuck quote of today:

“If someone is gossiping to me, I ask them if i can quote them on that. Then, they immediately find the spiritual gift of back peddling.”

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