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Friday's Challenge on Posted by Rebekah

Every Friday @ 12:30pm (CST), you can hear a weekly challenge from me on Faith Music Radio.  My podcast is called Posted by Rebekah. You can listen online HERE or download the free app for your smartphone.  I would love for you to join us, listen and take the challenge!
Tune in any time of the day to Faith Music Radio for uplifting Christian music and talk. 

Here is today's podcast in blog post form. :)

Hoarders.  I have mini size people hoarders who live in my house.  Yikes! They like to keep anything and everything!  LOL!  Two of my four girls are the creative type.  Therefore, they can look at a piece of trash – something that I render useless and want to throw away – right away! – and they will save it.  They will get out the tape, scissors, yarn, glue, colors – and turn that piece of garbage into something of value to them.  They see usefulness where others may not.  They see a different future where others may not.  They see a purpose where others may not.

What a great quality to have in life!  Are you the type of person that sees something in another person where others may not?  Do you judge others’ worth based on what you see on the outside?

My husband grew up in a home without God.  He didn’t go to church – in fact, when he went to a Baptist church for the first time, he couldn’t believe the man said Jesus Christ in church.  He just thought it was a curse word his whole life.  When a friend invited him to a youth activity, I am sure there wasn’t much value in my husband’s life at that time.  He probably just seemed like another punk off the streets – another poor kid in the ghetto – another teenager that was headed for the system.

But under that exterior was a heart that was turned toward God.  Value.  Worth.  Purpose of life.  Someone was willing to take a chance on that seemingly useless life.

And then God took over from there.  He worked on that life and molded it through hardship and unsavory circumstances – into a preacher of His gospel.  Into a life now reaching other useless lives in that same city of Reno, NV. 

The challenge is today – be the type of person to see what others potentially can be and not what they currently are.  Find the remnants of lives – the discarded ones of seemingly no value – love them – put time into them – until they are a vessel of beauty, worth and value.

Will you take the challenge?
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