This whole week has been full of drama. Feels like an understatement depending on how you want to see it.
Sometimes, when issues crop up they somehow make you ruffled, distressed and worried. I can honestly say that I've allowed those issues bane me for a major part of the week. However, after clearing my mind of the clutter, the truth stood out quite clearly.
God is in charge no matter what.
So be it if man, management, establishment, circumstances, rumours, gossip, lies, greed, competition, backstabbing, disappointments, screw ups, anger, laziness or whatever; I know that MY God is mighty.
He is mighty to save.
We have to be the change. Change comes from within, not from the outside. If we don't stick together, then who will? If you believe in something so badly, and you want the best to come out of it, would you pay the price for it?
This is the year for the first time in my 7 years of being Christian that I see this new form of evangelism - "Christian evangelism". Honestly, to see you stoop that low to try to win people into your club, it's just shameful. You're actually spending time making sure you have all the "right people" with you while thousands out there die without knowing the gospel? And you wonder why you are losing the respect of the people around you. The army of God is selfless, sacrificial and serving; not competitive, judgemental and calculative.
I've already had countless conversations, had a worship retreat, spoken enough to know, that God is asking for action now. In fact, He deserves our highest praise. If you've been feeling restless, and its just not enough when you sing to Him and you desire more.
If that is you, and you want to use your life to serve God, then lets come together as a different kind of fellowship. A fellowship that isn't about getting others to serve us first. Let's not be a generation that is so comfortable with the things already prepared for us.
1 Chronicles 21 in the following verses:
18Then the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to David that David should go up and set up an altar to the Lord in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
19So David went up at Gad's word, which he spoke in the name of the Lord.
20Now Ornan was threshing wheat, and he turned back and saw the angel; and his four sons hid themselves.
21And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw him, and went out from the threshing floor and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
22Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the site of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar on it to the Lord. You shall charge me the full price for it, that the plague may be averted from the people.
23Ornan said to David, Take it; and let my lord the king do what is good in his eyes. I give you the oxen also for burnt offerings and the threshing sledges for wood and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all.
24And King David said to Ornan, No, but I will pay the full price. I will not take what is yours for the Lord, nor offer burnt offerings which cost me nothing.
25So David gave to Ornan for the site 600 shekels of gold by weight.
26And David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings and called upon the Lord; and He answered him by fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering.
27Then the Lord commanded the [avenging] angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
28When David saw that the Lord had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.
David would not offer an offering which he had not paid for by himself. A sacrifice isn't really called a sacrifice if you don't pay for it, is it?
Have we been serving God out of convenience? Just because "we have to"? A formality? Because you were asked to serve? Your parents wanted you to do it?
If my decisions for God don't cost me something, then it is not a real sacrifice. It just isn't.
it's time to go deeper
Will you take action? Will you make your stand?
Will you stand up and be counted?
Will you choose God or choose the ways of the world?
Will you seek His face?
Do you want to make a difference starting from where you are? If you do, and you know I'm talking about you and you know, that you know, it's Y-O-U. Let's stop the talking and start doing something for God's glory to be spread to the ends of the earth!
i'll put You in front of me
so everybody can see my love
this is my love
i know that I'll be all right
as long as You're by my side my love
this is my love
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