EXILES: HERE COMES RUSTY 1 Peter 1:13-21
"Here comes RUSTY!" I was at a dog race with my college roommates, a number of years ago. Every time they started a new race, they would announce, "Here comes Rusty!" Around the track would be this stuffed bunny that all the dogs chased. If the bunny would have run onto I-25 into oncoming traffic, the dogs would have all followed it. I think we could all agree, if it were a cat race we would have wanted that to happen. Just kidding!! They followed this bunny. Right around the track, the dogs are chasing it! I started to think about that this week, because I don't know that we're all that different. All of us have a "Rusty." We all have something that we follow. I think from the time our feet hit the ground in the morning.....we could just lie in our bed and whatever you do before you actually have your feet hit the ground, I think you could whisper in your mind, "Here comes Rusty!" And you're off and running for the day chasing your Rusty. Not only do you have something that you're chasing---something that determines the course, the shape, the direction of your life---but for every single person in this room, our Rusty's the same. For every single person. The thing that we follow---the thing that determines the course of our life, the direction of our life, the action of our life, the behaviors of our life---it's the thoughts that we have rattling around in our head and the things that we believe in our heart. Those are the things that shape the direction and the course of our life. What you THINK and what you BELIEVE determines how you live. It's your "Rusty."
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