Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Fellowship Of The Whoevers

Are you intelligent, average, or a little slow to learn? Are you gifted, average, or do you struggle and work hard to do anything? Are you popular or more of a loner? Are you wealthy, middle class, or closer to the poverty line? You may be a citizen of the United States or from a third world country nobody has ever heard of. None of that matters.

You are part of the whoever. John 3:16 (ESV) 
16  “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Your status in life is irrelevant. You may have sinned or you may have SINNED. You may be a nobody from nowhere or a person of rich pedigree. None of it matters. You can be included in the whoever. We take that for granted. Children are  included in the whoever as well as teenagers and adults. It does not matter what you have or have not accomplished. You can still be part of the whoever because Jesus has wide open arms to embrace all kinds of people from all different walks of life. 

This struck me earlier today. Because of Jesus I am one of those whoever. And then I read this passage from Mark 11:22-24 (ESV) 
22  And Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.
23  Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.
24  Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Whoever. I am part of of the whoever. His promises are true for whoever believes. For the one who believes Jesus for eternal life as well as to the one who believes Jesus still moves mountains. It doesn't matter how successful we have been or how we have failed in life. It does not matter if we are well loved by many or well loved by a few. It does not matter if we are mighty prayer warriors or just people who pray average prayers the promises are true for you. I am thankful to b one of the whoevers. 

You are probably one of the whoever too or you would not even take the time to read this. God's family is big and filled with whoevers. We are different. But we all have this in common. We have been redeemed by the grace of God and the blood of Jesus. We are forgiven. We are loved. What a blessing to be a part of the fellowship of the whoevers. I bet you don't see that for a name of a church. The Fellowship of the Whoevers. Or Whoever Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, Church of God in Christ Church. No. We find other names for churches. Today I find myself in a blessed state of mind of mind because I am part of the Fellowship of the Whoevers. 

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