I’m finding it more and more difficult to not be ‘deep’ about everything lately. I think I’m just realising how the consequences of our actions, no matter how small, are huge. I was chatting to some classmates in a lecture recently and the subject of ‘religion’ came up. I mentally rolled my eyes, if that makes sense, as the very mention of the word irritates me. The word religion has come to mean some section of your life that you devote to a god or cult or something similar. What I believe is so much more than that.
I know the one and only God. How awesome is that? But how do you tell somebody everything they understand is wrong? I know only God can save somebody but what do you do in that situation, and God’s giving you nothing? You don’t want to move on because this is exactly what life is about. You either live it with God or without him, that’s it. That decision will build that person’s life starting immediately.
Some people just don’t get it. Once you’ve done what God has told you your hands are clean of responsibility for that person’s life, that’s what the Bible says. But these are my friends; I don’t want to see them go to hell. If I could, I would literally hit them with a Bible if I knew it would help them wake up and see the truth! Unfortunately for me God doesn’t work like that.
Tonight I went to home cell, that’s basically a meeting of people from the church who get together in their homes to talk about God. One of the guys had just gotten back from a trip to Mozambique and he was telling us some amazing stories he had heard. As I listened I felt so disconnected, like I was living such a different life. I wanted to jump into the next car and go wherever and tell people about God. Yet, in my own lectures there are people who are so dead inside. They have the world but no soul.
Now I’m not discrediting anything churches are doing in other countries, God is running the attack plan here, not us, so wherever he tells you to go, GO! It does make you think though. What am I ignoring that’s happening right in front of me? If these guys can talk about the rubbish they get up to why don’t I tell them what I got up too?
These are totally different worlds, poverty where God is substituted for witchcraft and ‘traditional’ nonsense, and then wealth were money, drugs and other idols are controlling people. We are called to be a light to the world, from our backyard to the middle of nowhere. It’s a hectic command. And as scared as I may be, with God on my side I want to get out there and see his miracles, not hear about them.
The rain poured down the glass as James sat reading in his chair. He was reading his favourite book, the only book he had ever read and he had read it more than twenty seven times. His parents were out shopping for groceries and he had opted to stay.
Bobby Brown finished his English exam and came out. His friends asked him how he did in his exam, for that he replied “The exam was okay, but for the past tense of THINK, I thought, thought, thought and at last I wrote THUNK!!!”
