Thursday, May 22
Being Different Is the Difference
Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.
Joshua 1:9
Rosa Parks, a lifelong member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, refused to give up her seat for a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus in 1955. The bus driver ordered four African-American riders to give up their seats for white riders who were standing. Three did, but Rosa decided the day had come to be different. Her arrest, and the resulting Montgomery Bus Boycott, set in motion the modern Civil Rights movement.
In order to make a difference, one has to be different. Three young Hebrew men in Babylon made a difference by being different. They were the only ones in Babylon who refused to bow down before a ninety-foot tall image. As a result, they were thrown into a furnace of fire from which God miraculously delivered them. The difference they made by being different was that the king offered praise to "the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego" (Daniel 3:28) and established a nationwide ordinance against defiling their God.
If you want to make a difference for Christ in your home, at your job or school, or in your community, ask God to show you ways to be different for Him.
Make a difference by daring to be different.
Joe Stowell
Read-Thru-the-Bible
Job 6:1 - 9:35
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