God bless!

           Have you ever seen people go out of their way for attention? Their conversations sound like pirates because every other word is “I”? These are the same people that tend to draw attention away from God in church simply to be able to bask in the spot light of the audience. They talk about their, schooling, degrees, job, cars, clothes, kids, etc. In their eyes they can do no wrong! Most of these people after some time stop drawing positive attention and end up drawing pity because everyone around them can tell that what they are trying to do is make up for a low self-esteem issue. This issue is not something new! As you can see in the verse below it has been predominant since the old times and has dragged until now. Why do I talk about it? In life we will be surrounded by these type of people and as Christians it’s important that we know how to approach them in a way where we don’t get frustrated and where we don’t hurt them either. What is the best approach? Love them past themselves. How? Show them testimony of how it is to be humble until eventually they can realize they are standing out, but not in a positive way. It’s like a room of people saying the word “red” and one person saying “green”. Eventually they will notice that they are not in sync with everyone else. Love conquers all and the truth is many of us fall into this category and many times don’t even realize it. Today I encourage you to take a look within and lets cast the pirate out! If there is no pirate then let’s love some of these pirates off their ship. Though as humans we may want people to “get theirs”, as Christians we should desire that people be saved instead!

Pastor Joell A. Perez

Matthew 6:5 “Also when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by people. Truly I tell you, they have their reward in full already.”