Christians who’ve been wading in luke-warm water:
Stop waiting for God to come to you and save you. Newsflash! : He already did. You know it already — He died for you, He loves you with an unconditional love, He is the source of our strength. Now my question is this: what have you been doing with the life God gave you?
Think its just words and motivation to give you the guts to do what you’ve always wanted to do? Think again. Come on guys, its time to grow up and embrace the Christian life. Its not going to be comfortable, its not going to be easy, and its not always going to be a party, but I do know one thing, its that God is in it. You might have been looking for Him in other places whether it be your new social circles, pubs, clubs, doing crazy things you’ve never done before, a new personality, a boyfriend/girlfriend.
I think God is calling us out, and asking, what have you done with all of the words I’ve put in your ear? Have you put any of them in your heart? I want you to experience life with me and you haven’t really listened to a word I’ve said.
Pastor John, a couple weeks back, was talking about how people tend to get old. They get boring. Nothing is new to them. As their childhood dreams don’t become fulfilled, they just settle with the comfortable, not really challenging themselves and fulfilling the dreams God had for them. The Bible says, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” -Matthew 18:3
Isn’t that so true? That as children, we say, “I want to be an astronaut!” Others, “I want to be a doctor!” It seems that the world is ours to conquer and we can do whatever we could imagine ourselves to be. Then as we age, we see the negativity in the world. Often we react to circumstance, focusing on what we don’t have, what we don’t know, as opposed to taking steps to getting to wherever “there” is. I think that this verse just reminds us that we need to be like children again, actually believing for amazing things.
I believe God has great plans for your life. I believe God has put dreams in your heart. I believe that God is who He says He is, and that His strength is made perfect in my weakness. Hear that? God’s strength is made perfect in my weakness. I cannot even imagine doing the things God has put in my heart, on my own. But there’s a reason for that, it’s because God doesn’t expect me to do them myself, He wants us to acknowledge that, that we need Him every step of the way, that walking with Him makes all the difference. He wants this daily relationship with you.
I can’t say I have it all figured out. Every day is different, every day I learn that I am wrong about something or someone. I don’t know exactly, at this point, what God has planned, I just know I need to walk with Him daily in committing to reading the Word, keep learning, keep moving forward and not put aside the things I think are impossible.
So, this is something that’s just been on my mind lately and needed to get it out. Its kind of a rant, on my part, I guess.
Later days.
