I have been trying to be cute, smart, adept, convincing and often overwhelming in my suggestive fortitude to get people to answer God’s Call for their lives.  The Lord has admonished me for maybe being a bit more like John the Baptist than the gentle pastor down the street, but I have been struggling with His direction to keep going.  You see when you are at the end of a mission, a business endeavor or project there comes a time when the commitment, the point or objective must either be met or forfeit.  Everyone I speak with sees the signs of the times in which we find ourselves and agree that this is that denouement after the climax of man kind that we are counting down to Christ’s return for the Church.  That means this is the time of the ripe fields that were planted by those who came before us.  It is now time for the workers of the harvest (US) to take to the fields and bring the crops into the storehouse.  Is it any coincidence that the United States is abbreviated US?

I don’t wish to offend, but I will if your upset at me will get you to respond to the Holy Spirit.  I want to be a kind, gentle, long suffering man to represent those characteristics within me that are Spirit fruitful.  However,  I am also supposed to be filled with the Spirit of Power.  When people went to see John the Baptist you think they told him to slow his roll, customize the message for their sensibilities or to perhaps “be gentle and pipe down a bit”.  Make straight your path for the Kingdom of God is at hand!  That ends with exclamation because we can imagine him saying that in his most forceful persona.  Why then if he was heralding the coming Lamb of God should I be any less forceful in pronouncing the return of the Lion.

I can’t be what people would have me be and fulfill God’s Plan for my life, because he is asking me for an entire new level of commitment then we have been disinclined to accept.  I truly love you and wish to make you happy but if so doing requires that I quench the Holy Spirit and displease God who do you think should lose out in that comparison?  I will heed God’s direction and share His message of Love, Kindness, Goodness and the Gospel of Peace.  That is always and has always been my guiding principle, but when the room is on fire or perhaps many souls will spend eternity in a lake of fire if I don’t shout, “Get Back”, then don’t you think it is time to stand up and shout with all my strength.

Don’t be sold out to the world because it will incessantly call you, be souled out to God for those yet to be saved.  In Jesus’ Name.