I am continually blown away by the way God orchestrates things in life. We did a water giveaway yesterday to our community and it was awesome. We had so many stories of people who were blown away by us giving them a bottle of water. We got to show people Jesus in a practical way, pray for them, have conversations and even have some pull back around to find out more about Coastal Community Church.
One couple that came around at the end as we were all walking back to the church office said that they were on their way to Home Depot and saw us passing out water and just had to come talk to us. They continued on to say that they have been hearing about this church that is going to be starting up in Monarch High School that loves God, people and serves the community. In fact they had been searching us on the web and were so excited when we were out when they were on the road. God is up to something big in our community and I can’t wait to see what He does in and through us for His glory.
The thing that I am realizing in life is that if I want to be blown away by God, I have to do something. He doesn’t really show up if I am just dormant in life. When I step out into action God shows up.
I want to encourage you to step up and out and see what kinds of things God wants to do in and through you in life.
In America today we are in an identity crisis. We are looking to be identified by a lot of different things. We want to be identified by our jobs, homes, clothes, friends, families, trends and bank accounts. Jesus speaking here doesn’t talk about any of those things but he talks about our fruit. He is talking about what is our life producing or even better reproducing. Are we just going through life focusing on ourselves or growing fruit for the benefit for others. I don’t know about you but I want to be identified as someone who did not just live for myself but lived for God so I could serve others. I love the fact that in the book of Acts that Paul and Barnabas were living for others out in the community and because of this, they were identified as Christians because of the fact they looked like Christ. 
God is the all supreme being that we can’t physically see but see his attributes and goodness all the time. God’s love is the most incredible thing in the world. He gives and just continually gives to anyone and everyone. I love the part of this verse that says “His love is brought to FULL EXPRESSION in us.” I cannot even fathom what that would look like. I have been trying to imagine his love being in full expression but just can’t seem to get there. I bet that if I ever arrive at that point it would be the most amazing experience that I would ever have in my life. I guess that I haven’t gotten to the point of realizing this because I haven’t “Loved each other.” I don’t know about you but this is an area that I have continually struggled with in life. Don’t get me wrong I love people but not like how God loves people and would be willing to give up his son’s life for people that don’t even like him. That is a pretty intense love for others.