And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words shall be on your heart;
And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
(Deuteronomy 6)
Sometimes you just need a reminder.
Throughout the Bible we learn of various alters, monuments, mementos that are created to honor God, the providence of God. Deliverance from flood waters. Guidance into a Promised Land. A face-to-face encounter with God Himself.
Even today we wear jewelry and T-shirts, drive with bumper stickers and even smile at our currency as it all reminds us that “in God we trust”. Some of us even have tattoos symbolizing the Grace of God.
Is it enough?
While I discourage a lifestyle of in-your-face street corner preaching, I wonder if the world sometimes needs an occasional wake-up call. A type of spiritual vandalism.
And this is where I begin to make people uncomfortable, including myself. We already admitted to having ugly feet, and resolved to do something about it. Many of you already are. Many of you are creating or sustaining various relationships with a hope that Jesus will soon be introduced to the equation… I know this because I have already had discussions with several of you about it.
Today’s challenge is NOT that strategy.
Today’s challenge is another radical, sneaky challenge, designed to provide a quick reminder of Christ’s love for the world.
Challenge #22: Vandalize! Create a monument, a message, a piece of graffiti that expresses the love of God to a broken world. Try to use non-permanent materials. Use sidewalk-chalk or whiteboard markers on mirrors/glass (the objective is not to be obnoxious or to cast Christianity in a negative, overly-zealous way).
You can keep it simple: vandalize your own bathroom mirror with a Bible verse or a reminder of God’s love. Vandalize a piece of your sidewalk with sidewalk-chalk, or put a sticky note inside a library book, or on the dashboard of your parents car.
You can remind yourself or others that “God is good…all the time” or quote a Bible verse such as Romans 12:12 – “Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction…”
Remind yourself. Remind the world. The Lord our God is one God…
Friday’s Challenge #23: CONVERGE
Sounds Awesome BTW love the pic
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ReplyDeletei'm gonna vandalize... a lot of places.
my culdesac, and my room. and. hopefully more.
sounds cool
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i didn't do as much as i wanted yet.
ReplyDeletebut I did write Psalms 34:5 on mirrors.
"Those who look to Him are radiant."
This sounds amazing
ReplyDeleteBlake
i completely vandalized my driveway, it's crazy.
ReplyDelete-Victoria
i have Psalm 139 written on the mirror in my bedroom. i'd really like to do more though.
ReplyDeletei vandalized my mirror, our bathroom mirror, and my teacher's board. :) i'm glad i didn't get in trouble. :P
ReplyDeleteI went in with a couple other people to write Romans 8:38-39 (nothing can separate us from the love of God) on a bathroom mirror. I plan to do more...
ReplyDeleteMy dry erase marker and I took on white boards on my floor at work. "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind."
ReplyDeleteDeut. 6:5; "Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance?" Isaiah 40:12; "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16; and "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres" 1 Cor. 13:4-7 are now spread around our floor.
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Faith
I wrote on my windows at home. I wrote on my car window. I wrote on the mirror on the spring retreat to my girls. I enjoyed it. "God is good...all the time!"
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, I wrote on My whiteboard, and my grammas bathroom mirror.
ReplyDeleteThis is something i always do the is going to be awesome
ReplyDeleteBlake
I'm going to do my parent's bathroom, my bathroom, and the bathroom downstairs. All different verses. If the weather's good tomorrow, I'll also do my cul-de-sac. Wohoo! Vandalisim!! :D
ReplyDeleteyeah i totally vandalized the back of JDs house today with chalk.
ReplyDeleteI continue to use this method to leave messages on the bathroom mirror. I learned something new when I went to the Kennesaw Museum. They had a "Freedom Train" box car that was given to the US from France. On the back of it there was a drawing with the words: "Kilroy was here." It meant that American Soldiers were there. I drew this on the mirror and wrote the words. Luke didn't know what it meant either. He thought the drawing was creepy until I explained it. Then he said I was weird because there wasn't a soldier in our house. Oh well, we all learned something from it. I write a Proverb or some other positive scripture or words every now and then. This was a good one!
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