If I were to reverse engineer your last year, could I effectively determine your desired destination?  Are you preparing for rapture, being sanctified to spend eternity with a holy and righteous God?  Are you moving to Arkansas, buying lands, saving funds and making contacts to set up your compound?  Have you set your heart upon becoming a star, using the money and prestige to honor God through demonstration of your greatest gifts?  Have you begun to study French, Vietnamese or Tagalog in advance of a mission trip led by God?  Have you got your passport?

If God asked you today to go and testify to Nineveh, present day Mosul, would you be ready to leave or would you have to give bundle of excuses, deny the calling or maybe jump a ship, tell God No and head off to Spain?  What do your actions indicate?  I am not going to create general fear in your brain housing group and ask you about the evidence of your salvation, but I am asking straight up for proof that you are living your life in God’s Will and not pursuing your own destination, outcomes or glory.  After all your testimony is one of your most powerful tools for discipleship, how would it be diminished if an unbeliever were to inquire of your commitment to the Lord’s Will?  Because they will ask and if they haven’t asked you yet, I am willing to bet that you are not out there evangelizing for fear of them asking just that question.

I am not perfect, nor do I need to be.  I am not smart nor is that a requirement for someone who has access to the mind of Christ.  I am not rich, in fact I found this a potential barrier to my effective dissemination of the Word.  I am not young and full of energy, but I am filled with a source of power way beyond that of my youth.  I have no worldly credentials but I am anointed by the Lord Jesus Christ to be the cup bearer of His Everlasting Gift of Life.  I am not handsome, though I do possess the loving charms that are inescapable to them who need unconditional care and a great big hug. I do not possess great chunks of land or material goods, but my Father owns this world and every other world making me the heir to creation.  What I have is free will, free will to choose a short life spent chasing my own ideals, desires or plans or the glorious gift of having Christ live this one so that I may spend eternity in my true form, fulfilled, powerful and sanctified to God’s liking.  It is truly a logical and transparent decision, but most will do everything in their power to silence it, avoid it, excuse it away or dismiss the clarity that we all say we seek.  God has been calling, have you been listening and more yet, responding through committed action?

I pray that since we all agree the time and the season is upon us, that you hear and obey, immediately, to that which God has called you into action.  Glory to God in the highest and may you be found, READY for his return for the Church.  Look forward to sharing a meal with you at the marriage supper of the Lamb.  Be awake, filled with His Powerful Spirit and committed to faithfully stand and let him complete the work he once began in you.  In Jesus’ Mighty Name.