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JET Wellness, Jasper, IN (2025)

07/30/2018

Friends,

Have you ever had a misunderstanding that ended in a fractured relationship or a fight you never intended to start? Have you ever thought you communicated something in one way, but it was perceived in another? Communication is much more complex than we think or give it credit for. Different facets of communication, like the spoken word, vocal intonations, body language, intended meanings, implied meanings and not the least, perceived meanings, among others, build the construct our minds depend on to decode and understand what another person is saying. Somewhere along the line, some conversations become derailed and end in a place that leaves the participants in a state of wonder.

We've talked about words more than once in previous letters. What I want to do today is to encourage you to be choosy when it comes to the words you use in your every-day deliberation. Here's the reason why. Words build our concept of reality. The accuracy of our view is greatly dependent on the words we use to describe said reality. In the foundation of this argument is the idea that intent predicates description. We can be relentless in our drive to be honest about what we see, or willfully engender lies, using words to construct what we prefer reality to look like as opposed to what it really does look like.

Truth is beautiful to those who have made it their friend, and an enemy to those who live in the shadows. For those truth is a friend to, it is like a warm blanket on a cold night, or a cool breeze on a hot summers day. It's a relief. The opposite is true for those who willfully oppose the truth, being forever restless, worried, and exhausted at trying to maintain the lie. There is no safe space. John 1:1-5 says, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." I love this verse. God ties the creative medium He used to create the universe to life itself. It seems to follow that words that are true are words that give life, even if words that are true hurt, and provoke change. In the end the words we use to construct reality are largely based on our love or hate for the truth.

Questions for you:
Do you love the truth over what you feel?
Do you believe that the power of life and death are in the tongue?
What are some areas that you have willingly believed lies in order to accommodate your desires?

Additional Reading:
John 1
James 3
Proverbs 18:21

Your Chaplain,

Jonathan Bond
JASPER ENGINES & TRANSMISSIONS

07/10/2018

Friends,

Have you ever been confronted by someone who has no wisdom? Most people have encountered someone like this, and maybe even have been that person at one point. Our normal response goes something like, “what in the world did they just say to me, and why?”, or “what makes this person think I care what they have to say”, or “if this guy says one more thing to me…”, you can fill in the blank. It’s a serious test of patience when someone tries to tell you something that they haven’t earned the right to say, either through relationship or by obvious achievement in life. There’s a prerequisite to constructive relationship which demands respect be earned, not simply given because you can speak legible words. The framework in our mind is set, knowing that respect is an integral part of the trust process, and if the person doing the leading isn’t worthy of respect they are neither worthy of trust.

This idea of earned respect opens up a bigger issue. Mainly the question of how to be someone that is worthy of that respect. I’m not sure if you sometimes wonder what happened to concepts like this? I know I do. The idea that we all have something greater to aspire to, something to look up to, something to emulate and use as a guidepost for our lives. I wonder if part of the reason this idea seems more estranged now is a general sense of pride and arrogance, regarding ourselves able to figure it out on our own, refusing to stand on the shoulders and lessons of our fathers? Another part of me wonders if the remnants of this structure have been washed away with the tides of moral relativism and existential nihilism. The aim of a society tells you lots about what it believes, and if the aim of a society is nothing more than self-realization and experience then it’s not surprising when moral structure and nourishing relationships seem archaic.

Proverbs 24:3 says, “Through wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established.” We’ve talked about wisdom before; it starts only with the fear of God. Denying God and denying Him the gratitude we are due Him will make us foolish. So think for a minute that your life is the house Proverbs is talking about. Through wisdom we are able to build our house. This is a good thing. It’s like building on the solid rock instead of sand, like the parable in Matthew 7:24. ‘And through understanding it is established’. Establishment is a word used to represent something that was meant to last or has lasted. So if we want the house of our life to be established we must first build it on the fear of God, then continue to add understanding to that foundation. I recently heard someone say, “If you don’t have your house in order, how dare you try to run the city”. Strong words, but necessary if we are to build a life and a culture that lasts. This always starts at an individual level. Everything we see on the outside in our society is the result of individuals having first made decisions in their personal life, whether desirable or not, which have manifested themselves in the public sphere. Both moral and deviant behavior become normalized, making the differentiation difficult at times. Either way it starts in the home of the heart. How well do we tend that garden? How often do we take the easy way out instead of letting discipline be our teacher? How quick are we to complain about what is going on around us, without first addressing what goes on within us? This is where our battle starts, and where the war is won. If we endeavor to deal with the evil in the world, lets first deal with the evil within.

Questions for you:
Do you feel like your ‘house’ is in order?
What are some of the things you do as preventative maintenance for your ‘house’?
Are you honest with yourself about what is going on inside of you?

Additional reading:
Proverbs 24:3
Matthew 7:24
Matthew 12:38-45

Be blessed,

Jonathan Bond
Chaplain, JASPER ENGINES & TRANSMISSIONS

06/19/2018

Friends,

Fatherhood is among the most important roles a man can play. It stands among the other traditional, necessary, and good responsibilities of men, that help knit the fabric of family and society together. Do you remember “The Andy Griffith Show”, and other shows like it? There were solid fatherly figures in some of these TV shows during this era. They were surrounded by goofy characters, and the craze of life, but the norm was a man that was gentle, kind, and understanding; but also a man that took responsibility, upheld and taught truth and integrity, and lead by example. These mores are imperative if we desire a healthy and lasting society.

Over the years something has changed when it comes to our cultures representation of fathers. Where we used to have dignified examples of fathers it seems we now overwhelmingly have examples erring to the infantile, slobby, and irresponsible side, rather than the father that people trust, value, esteem, and look to for guidance. So what changed? Why are men in general looked at in such a different way? Fatherlessness has become endemic in our time, and despite all our claims of cultural liberation, and freedom of the individual, statistics show the startling effects that the ‘selfishness of the individual’ has brought on our culture. Children living in homes with single mothers have significantly higher poverty rates than those who do not, mortality rates of infants are significantly higher when a father isn’t present, suicidal ideation and intent goes up when a father isn’t in the home, likelihood of carrying guns and dealing drugs dramatically increases in the absence of a father, and the list goes on.

There are still some fantastic examples of fathers today in spite of the current mood. Anyone that has come into contact with a father that genuinely loves, wisely directs, or lovingly rebukes knows that what was said was done for their benefit and their good. This is the call sign of great men and women, they make the world a better place around them in spite of their circumstance. Fathers are an integral part of life. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve spoken with people where this relationship specifically has made or broke significant parts of their life. Good fathers have the enormous capacity to speak life and set their children on a course that will lead to a good life. God is the ultimate example of a good father, and I just want to encourage all the fathers out there trying to be like Him to keep it up. You’re awesome. You’re valuable, you’re needed, and you an integral part of what your sons and daughters need. Your sacrifices haven’t gone unnoticed, even when you thought they were.

Questions for you:
Has your life ever been positively or negatively affected by a father figure?
What do fathers have to offer that is unique to a family or society?
How does your relationship with God the Father change because of your relationship with your dad?

Additional Reading:
2 Corinthians 6
Galatians 4
Pew Research Article
NCF

Be blessed,

Jonathan Bond
Chaplain, JASPER ENGINES & TRANSMISSIONS

06/12/2018

Friends,

Do you remember the parable of the widow’s mite in Luke 21:1-4? It says, “As he looked up, Jesus saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. ‘I tell you the truth,’ he said, ‘this poor widow has put in more than all the others. All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.’” What is it about this tiny story that makes such a deep impression?

There’s something so beautiful about the actions of this widow giving the entirety of the little she had. I think that this woman may have been more free than many will ever have the opportunity to feel. There’s something intrinsically attached to giving, not out of abundance, but out of scarcity, that is liberating and freeing in a way that is unparalleled. Money can make slaves of us in a few different ways, in one way by being a hoarder, unable spend what you have, and in another way by being unable to save and apply wisdom to your spending. Being on either end of the spectrum tends to put you in the category of money controlling you, not you controlling your money.

This widow didn’t have either of those problems. I’m sure if she had the opportunity to save, she would have, but at two mites she wasn’t getting anywhere fast. The modern measure of two mites is equivalent to 1/64th of a day’s labor at that particular point in history. So when the Bible says, “poor” here, it really means she was poor. I wonder sometimes at how the widow may have felt. I imagine her faith having been so gargantuan that she was able to drop the pittance she had without apparent care for her next meal. Maybe she, in her poverty, unlocked a place of freedom that was inspired by her faith, knowing that God was good, and that if He cares for the sparrows how much more would He care for her. It seems to me that she knew the mystery and the beauty of the statement that Jesus made, “It is more blessed to give than to receive”, and somehow lived a life consistent with that truth.

Questions for you:
Do you feel like you have freedom when it comes to your finances?
How often is giving a part of your life?
Do you feel the blessing it is when you give?

Additional Reading:
Acts 20:35
Luke 21
Matthew 6:4

Be blessed,

Jonathan Bond
Chaplain, JASPER ENGINES & TRANSMISSIONS

05/29/2018

Friends,

You would be hard pressed find a church that at some point didn’t preach a sermon about justice. This is a good thing. In both the secular and religious mind, justice is an issue that in many-a-way reigns supreme; so it’s no surprise when it hits home among the masses. It should be a topic that is opened up and explored from all angles. The whole idea of fairness permeates life starting in its earliest seasons. Tommy will always let you know that it’s not fair when Mike steals his toy. The emotions are raw when you feel like something isn’t just. We are told early on though that, “life isn’t fair”, and in many ways this is true.

In the Bible, God’s delineation of justice towards believers is always tempered with grace or unmerited favor. As repentance takes place that unmerited favor is always given, not earned. This is the process by which you and I are able to stand before God, clean, and remain in right relationship. Grace is not the antithesis of justice, grace is justice’ greatest counterpart. Justice is altogether impartial, so in the end true justice must be carried out by an impartial judge. Seems a far cry from many of the world systems we see in place today. Culturally justice ebbs and flows depending on a variety of variables. That’s not to say that every cultural expression of justice is correct, it’s simply the way governmental construct develops.

Grace has become maybe a little too cozy with justice in our minds today, in the way that we are losing much of what ‘healthy form’ around justice’ outworking was meant to look like. Much of this seems to be promulgated by the church. Because the nature of grace in the church is that someone that has sinned but hasn’t broken the law is free from punishment, the weight of the offense can be lost, and responsibility squandered. Where responsibility was meant to be the right and honor of the one taking it on, consequently bringing life, it is now something to be loathed and scorned, because it’s easier for someone else to pay the cost than it is to maintain the discipline and integrity that comes with responsibility. We all need the grace to move past the things we’ve done wrong, but don’t forget the responsibility we have to not take that grace in vain.

Questions for you:
Have you ever done something knowing it was wrong with the idea that, “it’s okay I’ll get cleaned up later”?
Do you correlate justice with grace and responsibility?
Does your idea of justice come from human construct or objective truth?

Additional Reading:
II Corinthians 6:1-2
Romans 6
Hebrews 12:11

Be blessed,

Jonathan Bond
Chaplain, JASPER ENGINES & TRANSMISSIONS

05/22/2018

Friends,

Do you ever find yourself feeling like you’re wandering in circles, or without the emotional and mental energy to accomplish the day to day tasks? I know, sounds like the beginning of a bad dietary supplement commercial. It’s a real thing though, and we find ourselves at times looking for the magical pill or supplement to help us meet the everyday demands of life. Some of this can certainly be remedied by healthy diet and exercise, but when the combination of the two doesn’t seem to be helping all that much, what do we do? I think there is a third component here that many times we forget or simply remain ignorant toward.

Engaging in prayer is one of the most revitalizing practices that you can build into your life. In the same way that the body gets thirsty throughout the day or while working out, the spirit also gets thirsty. Water and food is to the body, as truth and prayer is to the spirit. When you hear truth the spirit inside of you should jump! Praying does the same. As you thank God for all the good things that He has given you, and in faith, thank Him for all the things that you don’t necessarily like or aren’t satisfied with, something changes inside your heart. Mourning and anxiety turn into joy and hope. Conviction is the next step that will help you build life in spite of what your circumstances seem to be building in opposition.

This spiritual reality is felt at its deepest when we neglect its demands. Psalm chapter 42:1-2 says, “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?” The psalmist gives voice to the truth that his heart is not only in desperate need of God, but also that he longs to be with Him. Each one of our lives can be looked at in terms of thirst or need. We try in many ways to satisfy that thirst, but not all solutions prove equal. We can pack our lives full of all the world has to offer and still remain thirsty. Reality is such that one drop of that living water that Jesus claimed He had access to will be the only thing that will satisfy that thirst at the core of every man and woman.

Questions for you:
How would you explain the longing that you have inside your heart?
Have you ever tried to satisfy longings of the heart with things that are temporal?
What does it feel like when your heart is satisfied by truth?

Additional Reading:
Psalm 42
John 4:27-38
Psalm 84

Be blessed,

Jonathan Bond
Chaplain, JASPER ENGINES & TRANSMISSIONS

05/14/2018

Friends,

For those that have been believers for a long time it’s almost an out of body experience to take a step back from the everyday fight and look at your faith from its starting point. The journey of faith is a long one. We encounter difficulties, heartaches, sins of our own, sins of others, deep existential questions, victories, disappointments, new directions from God, excitement, hope differed and longings fulfilled. The life of a believer is never without its ups and downs. Maybe some of you thought that becoming a believer was going to be a walk in the park, maybe some thought it was going to be more like a war. The reality is that we all experience seasons of both, but remembering why we came to Christ in the first place is not always fresh in our minds, even if we are living out true Christian repentance.

I’ve heard it said that the sinfulness of man is the most empirically verifiable, yet one of the most opposed, facts. We have a culture that will castigate anyone with the fortitude to point out the obvious when it comes to the sinfulness of man. History is replete with examples of the horrors perpetrated at the hands of men. Stopping there would be one sided, as there are also amazing examples of great kindness and generosity throughout the ages. It’s the horrors that typically cast the greatest shadow though. Our timelines are dominated and earmarked by events like WWI and WWII, by the conquerors of old struggling for dominion of the known world, and the great struggle of kingdom toppling kingdom. All for what? The pride of man? Jockeying for position? Dominance? Death and destruction in the name of building a name or empire that the sun will never set on.

Time has proved it all foolish. Every ascent to power has been paid in kind with a subsequent decline. A house built on the sand will not weather the storm. And conquering for the sake of personal or cultural glory will never result in a lasting proposition. Remembering why we came to Christ in the first place reminds us of the reality above. All have fallen short of the glory of God. We’ve all done things in our name, for our glory, and for our selfish ends. We’ve also done great things, encouraging others, loving selflessly, serving those around us, being kind to the poor and needy. But it was this truth that defined our need for a savior, we were prone to sin, and willingly participated. Even in the good we find ourselves building altars, in the name of charity, at the foot of pictures of our our-self. Just as the history of the world, our own history was earmarked by the sinful nature that we were once a slave to. Coming to Christ, accepting Him as Lord and Savior, living in repentance, learning to live and love according to God’s truth, and finding Him your most prized possession is where we started from. This is the most valuable revelation any believer can have, because without it, the rest has nothing to stand on. In this salvation, there is freedom.

Questions for you:
Do you remember when you first gave your heart to the Lord?
Do you remember what it felt like when you first realized that God breathed life into your heart?
Have you been surprised in the way life has gone sense that conversion?

Additional Reading:
Romans 3
Hebrews 4:12-13, 7:22-25
I Peter 2:9-10

Be blessed,

Jonathan Bond
Chaplain, JASPER ENGINES & TRANSMISSIONS

05/07/2018

Friends,

Fear is nothing more than lack of faith inherent in the response to a circumstance, and anxiety the emotional state resulting from continued fear based response. Everyone deals with fear, but not everyone learns to respond to it well. Those that do respond well to fearful situations, people look at in wonder, questioning how they were able to do such great or heroic things in spite of the adversity. What is it that ‘other’ people understand that they do not? Questions like this are the ones that begin the slide down the slippery slope of self-defeat, mentally reinforcing the idea of the fear being greater than you.

Fear cripples, stagnates, frustrates, and can end up claiming your future. It remains like a cloud on your mind that augments a clear view of reality. Grains of sand become mountains, small obstacles giants, light rain a violent storm. It will cause you to react irrationally, and sometimes keep you from acting at all. Fear in the end is an imposing liar, which gives nothing but heartache to those who succumb to its vice. Faith is fears greatest enemy though, because developing faith requires being convicted by something greater than yourself, and any fear that exists is constructed by self. Truth dictates that conviction is of greater worth than fear. Fear doesn’t disappear, but it is scorned when truth and conviction enter the scene.

One of the most frequently used stories when it comes to fear is the story of David and Goliath. A young man, David, was running an errand to his brothers who were camped at the front lines of a clash between Israel and the Philistines. While he was there he heard Goliath come out and challenge the armies of Israel, and as he barked out his threats, David’s response was, “Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that stands in defiance of the armies of the living God?” David was a young man, not trained in battle, but tested as a shepherd, fighting and killing a lion and a bear that sought to make a lunch of his sheep. David learned from those experiences how to trust God, and he didn’t need to know anything else about Goliath except that he set his hand against God’s chosen. David was fearless, when all the nation of Israel cowered. His faith was great, and his immediate response says it all. The conviction that God was both Israel and David’s defender was so much greater than any fear David had of the giant. That perspective is what exposed the truth about Goliath’s size.

Questions for you:
Are there things in life that you are currently living in fear of?
What is your faith response to these fears?
How do you break the pattern of habitual fear?

Additional Reading:
1 Samuel 17
2 Timothy 1:3-7 (specifically in reference to sharing the Gospel)
I John 4:7-21

Be blessed,

Jonathan Bond
Chaplain, JASPER ENGINES & TRANSMISSIONS

05/01/2018

Friends,

"Once upon a time a man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves; and the thorns grew up and choked the man. And he went on and met the Queen of Sheba, and she gave that man, Sir, a thousand talents of silver, and a hundred changes of raiment. And he got in his chariot and drove furiously, and as he was driving along under a big tree, his hair got caught in a limb and left him hanging there! And he hung there many days and many nights. The ravens brought him food to eat and water to drink, and he ate five thousand loaves and fishes. And one night while he was hanging there asleep, his wife Delilah came along and cut off his hair, and he fell on stony ground. And it begin to rain, and rained forty days and forty nights. And he hid himself in a cave. Later he went on and met a man who said, "Come in and take supper with me." But he said, "I can't come in, for I have married a wife." And the man went out into the highways and hedges and compelled him to come in! He then came to Jerusalem, and saw Queen Jezebel sitting high and lifted up in a window of the wall. When she saw him she laughed, and he said, "Throw her down out of there," and they threw her down. And he said "Throw her down again," and they threw her down seventy-times-seven. And the fragments which they picked up filled twelve baskets full! NOW, whose wife will she be in the day of the Judgment?" -Unknown

Was anyone wondering, ‘what in the world is going on here?’, fairly quickly after beginning to read this? Beyond the shock of knowing ‘this isn’t right’, it’s humorous because it’s so horribly wrong! As in most humorous exchanges, there tends to be a fair degree of truth exposed. The truth that gets exposed here is that it is far too easy to copy and paste different parts of the Bible to create a convoluted understanding about what it is really saying. Context is one of the most important pursuits when we read the Bible, so when we read this is one of the first things we have to look for.

Many times we read the Bible to see what it has to say about us. This isn’t necessarily bad, but the Bible wasn’t written for that reason, it was written to show Gods unfailing love and the purposes and plans that He has set forth. Often we take these huge concepts and whittle them down to tiny maxims. A simple example of this is Philippians 3:13 saying, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”. This is a common verse used for encouragement in all sorts of manners, but the context is Paul speaking about his suffering for the Gospel of Christ, having little and much, having no food and having an abundance of food. It changes the way we think of these verses when context is added. Again, it’s not wrong to use these verses for encouragement, but it is important to make sure your primary intent is to understand what God is trying to say, and from that point allow it to change your life.

Questions for you:
How do you normally read the Bible?
Have you ever used a verse as a prayer or encouragement without knowing its context?
What does the Bible say about Gods plan?

Additional Reading:
Philippians 3
Psalm 23

Be blessed,

Jonathan Bond
Chaplain, JASPER ENGINES & TRANSMISSIONS

05/01/2018

Friends,

Can freedom be maintained without the price of upkeep? A question, that can be looked at from both the personal perspective and from the perspective of a society, that needs answering if freedom is to endure. Freedom once bought at a great price is often allowed to slide into an apathetic frame where the assumption becomes ‘since freedom was bought, freedom will always be’. This isn’t true though. Just because the great price of freedom was once paid, fought for and achieved in an extraordinary way doesn’t mean maintaining that freedom is free from cost. There is always a cost, though it may be levied in more obscure ways.

Think of the fight for freedom in terms of everyday transactions. Every day we have the opportunity to make good decisions, ones that are in line with our Judeo Christian belief system. As we choose to stay true to that belief system, take action when action is needed, and continue to uphold those ethics, freedom will endure. The currency of today’s freedoms come at the cost of discipline, duty, responsibility, selflessness, sacrifice and love. You must guard freedom, painstakingly, or you will lose it as the slow decay of time and indifference erodes its foundations. Indifference and the loss of a moral is freedoms worst enemy. Again this is true on the societal level as well as the personal.

Benjamin Franklin once said, “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” In effect what this argument comes down to is either you pay the consistent price of upkeep in order to ensure freedom or you let it slide and replace that freedom with chains. I think today we have a culture that is on the fence in preferring chains over freedom, which is evidenced by the severe neglect in taking personal responsibility. We see it happen every day where another freedom or liberty is in question or another regulation put in place. It’s like watching a game of whack-a-mole where the playing field grows exponentially larger every day. What is seen on the outside is always secondary though. Galatians 5:1 says, “It is for freedom that He has set us free.” This is true, and the way has been made. Now only those everyday choices remain. Once we realize the cost in our individual lives the lighter the load will eventually seem, and the outward change will soon follow.

Questions for you:
Are there areas you have not paid the cost of maintenance in order to stay free in your heart?
Who’s job is it to ensure that your heart remains free?
Are you willing to take responsibility for you and what is in your immediate sphere of influence?

Additional Reading:
Galatians 5
Genesis 4:7
2 Corinthians 3:17

Be blessed,

Jonathan Bond
Chaplain, JASPER ENGINES & TRANSMISSIONS

04/17/2018

Friends,

In any given day we interact with a slew of people. There’s a continuous buzz created by the friction associated with the give and take of these exchanges. We experience good outcomes, bad outcomes, encouragement, inspiration, frustration, anger, joy, friendship, new beginnings, etc., all in the course of a day. Some interactions seem commonplace, while others tend to carry more weight. In the end, the only part of the interactions that we have any control over is how we initiate and how we respond. How we think, in a general sense, bleeds into these everyday interactions.

Our approach to these exchanges often determine which one of the impressions we end up leaving on an individual. So why is this important? Mainly because as a believer, we are called to be representatives of Christ. II Corinthians 5:20 says, “Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God.” In this verse we catch a glimpse of a piece of the plan that God has for us. Just before this verse, we are called new creations in Christ, and having been reconciled to God through Christ we have become ministers of reconciliation! That literally becomes part of the believers job description. It’s clear that this isn’t just some sort of command that we are to obey, it’s part of who we are because we understand what we have been set free from.

In this, humility becomes something entirely different from a do or don’t. It becomes a natural outworking of the new man or woman you have become because of Christ making you a new creation. A level of understanding is implicit with this change from the old to new, one that causes you to realize that a heart of love is forever a greater tool in reaching lost hearts than a heart of judgment. After all that heart of love is what changed you. Humility is a byproduct of your becoming a new creation because the realization of what you have been saved from is greater than any need to self-righteously prop yourself up in the judgment of another. God makes hearts alive, and He has invited you and I to join in that process. It’s amazing what can happen, when we focus on God’s goal of regenerating hearts instead of keeping people firmly where they are. One offers a hand up, the other stiff-arms out of fear, anger, and religion. The life the believer has been called to live is truly a splendid thing, one in which true life is found, one where that true life becomes contagious to the people around you. It’s a life that brings life, just as Jesus intended.

Questions for you:
Which thought above is more central to the way you think about life?
What is your definition of humility? Is it the definition that God uses?
Does this paradigm set you free in any way?

Additional Reading:
II Corinthians 5:11-21
Romans 6:1-11
I John 3:14

Be blessed,

Jonathan Bond
Chaplain, JASPER ENGINES & TRANSMISSIONS

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