The Latest Rage, Fad or Phase

What will it take to mobilize Christians into action to do their work of the gospel?  Will it be ever increasing cataclysmic events of global significance?  Perhaps what will do it will be a true financial meltdown or something that even Hollywood hasn’t invented yet.

Stop a moment and think about individual roles.  First think of your own role in the church.  Are you a student or a teacher?  We cannot all be the latter, but we are all the former.  Remember that no matter the role, no matter the age, we all are students who through the working of the Holy Spirit within us, should be growing in our resemblance to Christ.

Since Christ was a servant at His core, then we should all be ever growing in our servant attitude.  This need to serve our brothers and sisters both in Christ and those that might be, should be growing ever stronger within us.

Very few will read this, but I am encouraged that you are, but I ask, are you convicted in your heart to do more?  Do you ache that more be done in the fulfillment of the work of the gospel?

What does it take to convict people now days?  What does it take to get people’s attention and keep it, to motivate them into action?

Today, some see those that suffer after a natural disaster and they follow the events religiously for a few days or even several and they give of their resources.  Others follow with anticipation the ranting of a mad celebrity throughout days perhaps weeks of reporting by the media. 

Many take up and grasp onto the latest rage, fad or phase and then discard it days or weeks later.  Perhaps you are one of these people.  Such people are clearly demonstrating to me their need for THE work in their life.  That is the working of the Holy Spirit and the outward manifestation of that through the work that they are to be about in doing the work of the Holy Spirit.  Without it they are empty and they will continue to search about aimlessly and for a time pick up the latest greatest thing.

I pray daily that I could convict you of your need for this work, a work whose desire for it does not fade like a passing fad.  I am happy for your visit here just as I am for those who visit my weekly commentary: http://theadultsundayschool.blogspot.com/  I am grateful for all who study God’s word and grateful for any opportunity to serve, but what I want more than anything is to convict one of them, again, to convict you (and truthfully many, many more) to want to do the same and have a fire lit amongst us to share the gospel.

As we see Easter approaching and after it has passed, how many will go through the motions, and how many will feel Christ’s Spirit grow within them and burn to have others glorify Him?  To borrow the words of Paul from 1 Corinthians 15, the grace of God’s gift to me was not without effect and I have so much I need to do, but how about you?  What effect is showing in you from God’s gift of grace to you?