Be a
risk taker. Be authentic. Be in the world and bring transformation. Don’t do the
“safe” thing.
You
cannot avoid risk. Living is risky. Loving is a risky. Life is risky, life is terminal. Death is the
ultimate statistic. One out of one, we all die.
There should be nothing risk averse to a Christian life. We have nothing
to fear. It is for freedom that Christ set us free. We don’t get through life
safely just to fall into death safely. We beg God for signs and miracles. There’s
no need in our safe little world where God needs to do a miracle. Let’s walk
across the street to the place where God is allowed to perform miracles. There
is a world of people around us who are enslaved. On our watch, as we sit in our
safe little Churches with walls built up to keep us safe, there are over 27
million slaves struggling to survive. ON OUR WATCH. What are we doing? Where is
the salt? Where is the light? Where is the justice?
Are we
afraid of those people on the outside interrupting our little safe worlds. What
do we have to fear? What can man do to us? Church has confused compassion with
emotion. I don’t care if you can cry
during the motivational story. Get out, roll your sleeves up and lets get to
work.
We have
not been created a product of time but of eternity. The life we are living right now is not
practice. It’s the real thing. It’s the only life you have to live on this
earth. How are you making a difference?
How are you effecting the eternity? Are you planting seeds? Are you willing to
put your life on the line for one more person to find Christ? Are you willing
to give it all? HE did. He gave it all.
We
separate ourselves from the world under the “Be in the world but not of it.”
How do you translate that? We view ourselves as “holy” “set apart” because we
don’t slap our bodies with tattoos and piercings. (well, maybe you don’t J) But our gossip track and
rumor mill is running full throttle. We
are hurting people left and right but somehow we have found an excuse for our
actions. We have flip this scripture
upside down and become apart of the world but its “ok” because we aren’t living
in it. Oooops. That’s no good.
I don’t
want to be apart of this world. But I know that I have been sent into this
world to be a life witness of the Holy Father.
I have been set apart and I have been created to proclaim the name of Jesus
Christ. I have been redeemed and created
brand new and I am being sent to bring this freedom and redemption to others.
Through
Christ Jesus, the law of the spirit of life set us free from the law of sin and
death! Romans 8:2 BAM.
