This was posted on one of our Plexus team pages …. It is the essence of the day!
Love people. All people including yourself.
Close your eyes for a moment and imagine…
Imagine what it would look like to be Un-Offendable…
– What would your countenance look like?
– Your eyes?
– Your smile?
– What would be the tone of your voice?
– How would you interact with the world around you?
Imagine this life unoffendable. Imagine your marriage, your friendships, your relationships with your children. Imagine this business if completely led and consumed by unoffendable love. If every word, action and decision was birthed from radical, unoffended love.
Acts 7 recounts the story of the stoning of Stephen. And there you’ll read that as he was being stoned to an undeserved death, he cried out, “Lord! Do not hold this sin against them!” He was being STONED! A wrong-doing far greater than anything you and I have encountered! Yet! What came from his mouth?! LOVE!!!! He was unoffendable!!!
Team, I declare tonight that we are a team marked by this kind of love. That we are a team known for our capacity to love and love well. That we are INCAPABLE of offense! UNOFFENDABLE in every way.
Can you imagine what that looks like? Can you feel it? Do you sense it? He is calling us higher! Do you desire this?
If someone doesn’t respond to you- LOVE!
If someone says “no” – LOVE!
If someone quits – LOVE!
If someone tells you this won’t work – LOVE!
If someone joins another team – LOVE!
JUST LOVE!
This kind of life. This kind of business. This existence. This relationship with others. Is ATTRACTIVE! This draws others in. This empowers others. This brings freedom. This changes lives. This Is Freedom!
Where you once felt fear… it’s erased. Why?! Because perfect love casts out all fear. A person driven by love doesn’t experience fear. They are compelled by love. And friends, THIS is a blessable existence when operating this way. This is a life that can be trusted with leadership and impacting others. This is an empowering way of living! It’s a life lived with receiving hands open to the gifts of a loving Father! Not clenched fists full of anger, offense, resentment and bitterness… stifling the flow of love… both the ability to give it OR receive it.
This Is Freedom!
Unashamed. Unoffendable. Radical Love! Can you imagine it? Let’s live it!
