Remember Willy Wonka and the Golden Ticket?
I think it is crazy how sometimes we can treat our faith like a golden ticket...
We can be so wrapped up in ourselves and that we are doing "good" and making sure that we are "covered" that we live in way of I don't do this and I don't do that and I can't go there and blah blah blah blah BLAH
That's called being SELFISH AND ITS NOT CUTE
My heart is a little bit heavy because my friend is hopeless right now, she just lost the only person she could view as a father to a sudden death... SUDDEN
This may seem like two different topics but when I think of how she feels hopeless and questioning her journey this far I think of how many Christians are worried about themselves and making sure they get the golden ticket to go to heaven. Our journey is NOT about getting into heaven but rather being his hands and feet his mouth and heart while we are here on earth.
We have to decide that our lives are merely nothing NOTHING in comparison to what Jesus has mandated us to be. The word says
“Take up your cross and follow Me” (Matthew 16:24; Mark 8:34; Luke 9:23)"
Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Eph 5:1-2
We are to IMITATE Jesus, FOLLOW him.... Jesus fasted and prayed for OTHERS... He went to the dark alleys to help the hopeless, he went and became friends with people who were outcasted..
We have to get our own heads and plans out of our butts and seek Jesus and what he has for us to do. EVERYONE HAS A PURPOSE TO BUILD THE KINGDOM UP....ask God what it is and He will show you.
I am so passionate about this because even though we may not live a wild life, we flee from sexual immorality even though we don't gossip even though we go to church on Sunday's even though we are being straigh line Christians..... so what.... be RADICAL ask God what is it that you can do to be radical in your life so that you can pick up your cross and follow Him. We are called to make disciples not just get a golden ticket...
Let God consume you because it is truly then that you will not care about the do's and dont's but rather are you reaching God's people.... are you touching the hopeless, helpless, hurt, abandoned, mislead, decieved children that the Devil has major play with?! There is so much more SO MUCH MORE to what being a Christian is... forget the label of Christian... be a disciple.. be radical...
last verse
Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. John 14:12
We are to do more... Because we are one body moving in one spirit operating in 9 gifts of the spirit showing the fruit of the spirit... Stand up and do it... Forget about the dumb ticket... be a disciple and be freakin radical... don't be scared to bend some rules or push the limits... to have a revolution we need some rebels with a cause titled disciples
