Day 7- From Worst To Best

Mark 1:9 says: "At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan." I looked into the town of Nazareth and it was a trader town and not thought of well. When you thought of Nazareth you thought of a town where there was a lot of people passing through and it was kind of a slum kind of town. I found it interesting that Jesus was born here and that God's son was from Nazareth. Who would have thought that somebody like the person of Christ could ever come out of a town like Nazareth? I wonder how many times in our life that we look at our current situation and wonder how God will ever be able to work in the midst of it? I look at my life and wonder how in the world is God going to use me? I mean I didn't graduate college, I lived a hard life, I have a past and am over weight(there are may more negatives, but I don't have time to write them all). I mean how in the world is God going to use something like that? The fact of the matter is that no matter how bad we are, how bad the situation is, how bad of a life we have lived or how dirty our past may be He will use it. I know this first hand, I have gone from being drunk and high to preaching His word. I have left the past that used to haunt me behind and got so focused on Him that nothing else matters anymore. The key element that we must remember is that we are "New Creations" in Christ!! When we accept Him and have Him living inside of us so that we literally have two people in one body then and only then does He wash away all that filth that we have accumulated. We have to take the excuses that we have "I have a past, I had a hard childhood, I didn't have a father/mother, I'm not smart." or anything else that we can come up with, and quit using them to keep us away from Him. He doesn't care what we have been through, or what we have done, how we grew up or who are parents are He just wants us to be in a deep relationship with Him. That is the key to Christianity!! Not what we're doing, or how we're doing it, but a deep, intimate relationship with Jesus Christ, so that He knows every thought we have, every moment we experience, every step we take He wants to be a part of it. I want that in my life, I want to grow deeper and deeper in love with Jesus. I don't want to use the excuses of my Worst, but I want to live in the promise of His Best. I know that this earthly life doesn't always promise to be easy or easier when we become a Christian, in all actuality it will become harder, but I do know that He loves me and that I don't have to worry about doing the right thing all the time. I just sit back and let Him take over control of my life. Now please understand that it's not a situation of where I sit on my butt and expect Him to do my homework, or cook dinner or do things that I hate doing. But my motivation for doing the things I do will change so that I no longer have a selfish attitude towards doing them but a selfless attitude. I want that more and more in my life so I become less and He becomes more. I'm leaving behind my Worst and embracing His Best!