Just been thinking a lot lately about the mission field out there. I am a Pastor over the College and Career Group at Freedom Fellowship Church and they are a wonderful bunch. What I want to say is, after talking with many many young adults in the area and with the input I get from my group, I've noticed alot of gung ho attitudes for missions. I am tore up from the floor up that this generation is excited to do things for the cause of Christ. I only have one problem with this situation. Too many of the older generation out there are keeping these young people down when they are at a prime place in life to do these things and it is slowly desintegrating them. It's bad enough we have colleges telling them they've got to have their future planned out, parents kicking them out, that now we've got stone throwers bashing when one of them wants to do something that might be a little out of the ordinary or too uncomfortable for us to deal with. My Bible tells me that God wants to approach each and every day with us as a new day. Bible thumping with the idea that a seed was planted and let God work it out, is not what works. It might have had a small affect back in the day, But now times are different just like the Bible said they would be. You have to do what it says and let the Holy Spirit be your guide to making a difference in peoples lives along with the passion for sharing the love of Jesus Christ. The messege never changes, people and time change. And I have never seen anything in the Bible about badgering someone until they give in.
I'm so sick and tired of seeing these young ones thrown to the wolves and left high and dry without any mentoring at all. I have prayed my share through many issues of abondonement and no self esteem. We need to TEACH them how to recognize the Holy Spirits guidance and let that be what speaks to the lost and hurting. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5: 11-21 that we are to be so much out of our minds for Christ because He came to be reconciliation (to reconcile is to bring together) for us to God, that when we see others, We need to see them how God sees them and not how the world sees them anymore. We should be so shaken by the love of God that we can't hold it in anymore. That we HAVE to let it out. He gave us the mission to reconcile others to him after Jesus was died. It was Jesus' mission before he died then ours afterwards. Also, God created each and every one of us with a distinctive personality and it's with that personality under the leadership of the Holy Spirit that we talk to others with the compassionate love of Jesus Christ, Not by yelling and force them in. We are not robots. That's what Satan wants, people that are controlable . Sounds a little like a government plan huh? Satan will do what ever he can to keep you away from having a stable relationship with Christ.
For those of you out there that have big dreams and goals of being difference makers, martyrs or world changers, You have got to submit to authority and let God use you how he sees fit. Learn how to hear from God and interact with Him. He has enough for you to do without your plans getting in the way. I promise you whatever He decides to do with you, you will be a huge part in reconciling people to Him. Share your heart with Him in prayer and He will respond to you. He will magnify that in your life or change your heart to a new mission. We are ALL called to the Jesus mission whether we like it or not. Read 2 Corinthians 5. Accept the mission for yourself and enjoy the blessings of God. Listen, God created this world for you and me to enjoy living life to the max. But our sole prupose here is to express His Love so much that people can't turn it away. We have a saying in my family, "Love them to death". No matter what, how, when or where "Love them to death".
May God Bless You This Day.
Love, David
