God is in us!!

One day, while a guy was out driving his car, he upsets a bunch of bikers that were also out riding. The bikers surrounded his car and make him pull over into a parking lot and get out of the car. The lead biker took a piece of chalk and drew a circle on the pavement. He tells him to stand in the middle and not leave the circle. Furious, the biker and his gang went over to his car and slashed the tires. The guy started laughing. This made the men angrier so they smashed his windshield. This time the guy laughed even harder. Livid, the bikers broke all his windows and keyed his car. The guy is now laughing hysterically, so the biker asks him what's so funny. The guy giggles and replies, "When you weren't looking, I stepped out of the circle three times!"

I think sometimes we act like that guy in the circle. We let Satan draw the circle around us and we don't venture out except to just step out and step back in again while the world is being destroyed. This morning I was in my circle and I went off the freeway exit and saw a man that is there consistently. I even know his name is Jesse. I was upset myself that I forget that he would be there so I went and got him some food. I did not want to justify my inaction by saying, "Oh, I will try to remember next time."

1 John 4:4 (NIV) "You, dear children, are from God and have overcome (the world), because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world."

Acts 17:27-29 (NIV) "God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 'For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.' "Therefore since we are God's offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by man's design and skill."

Since God is in us, I challenge you to find one thing today that will bless someone else and go ahead and do it, not putting it off until tomorrow.