The Persistent Weirdo

About five years ago after I had moved to White House, Brandi Taylor told me that she had just taught my daughter’s Bible class about the Parable of the Persistent Widow. Abby, my daughter misunderstood her and thought Brandi said “Parable of the Persistent Weirdo”. We had a good laugh over that; not only because it sounded funny, but also because we all know people who are persistently weird. As you know I am trying to sell my house; which is not easy to do in this market. The other day we had a showing for our house, so we had to leave in order for the perspective buyers to be able to look all round it. We were gone for a while and figured that they would have been gone by the time we got back; so it was interesting when we got back to the house and saw that they were just leaving. We didn’t want to appear weird by pulling in right after they pulled out; so Stacy said “let’s keep driving, that way we won’t look so weird”. So we drove right past our house. Jackson then said “why are not stopping at home, what are we doing?” To which Abby replied, “we are trying not to look weird.” For me it is too late, I am weird, but I am not alone, most of you are too. The apostle Paul said …


“5 For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. 6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.” 2 Corinthians 4:5-6 NIV

Thankfully our message is not just about us; what a short and weird message that would be. Our message is Jesus, His perfection shines over our imperfection to give us lives filled with God’s glory. Therefore before you talk about yourself, talk about Jesus, His message is so much better than ours alone.