Am I Willing?
Over the last few weeks, I have been in and out of various veins of thought, study and observation. Maybe I have an unusually contemplative personality, I don’t know. Bear with me as I just share my heart on some things that have gone on inside of me.
It seems that everywhere I turn, my spirit is grieved over and over again. I walk down the bookstore and/or movie section of a major retailer and I find only about 5 or 10 percent of space is allotted for christian materials. The majority of very carefully thought out displays are devoted to subjects that are “best sellers”. Well that’s ok, I understand that the merchandising executives are arranging their merchandise based on supply and demand because they are responsible for making money for their company. It’s the supply that is being demanded that grieves my heart.
I turn on the television and spend most of my time trying to find something that is wholesome and entertaining. I usually end up frustrated and turning the TV back off. Producers, directors and film makers are also going the way of supply and popular demand.
I walk into a clothing store and find it more and more difficult to find anything but a low-cut garment hanging on a rack.
I listen to a political advertisement and end up more confused than I was before I heard an ear full of more mudslinging, criticism and sarcasm. I see a government that has not issued an invitation to Wisdom and have become the blind leading the blind. Our nation has become tolerant of evil and intolerant of truth. Prayer was thrown out of education many years ago and has produced for the most part a godless society. Man has become his own God.
How desperately we need a move of Spirit of an Almighty God in this nation and across the world. How critical it has become that we as the sons and daughters of God Wake Up to the Time we are living in. How we need to hear the call of repentance from those who have been entrusted with platforms of power. Oh, how we need to hear the Spirit reveal to us a loving – holy God that doesn’t excuse sin but took our sin upon Himself that we might be free. How desperately we need an awakening to God.
I read a newspaper or online article and the negativity and hopelessness is overwhelming. Opinion has become the truth of todays scholars and analysts.
The human mind is so bombarded with signage and neon lights that the simple beauty of life is becoming more and more obscure.
I watch young people living out each day in a technological frenzy of drama and strife, crying tears that no one has time to discuss or cares to explain. They end up chasing dreams that were never theirs just so they can be pleasing and acceptable to someone else that never really cared in the first place. I find teenagers living for the moment without any thought of consequence or how their actions may cloud and cause obscurity to the destination that God has for them.
Respect for a fellow human being is becoming a thing of the past and the value of a human life is diminishing as courts made up of people who don’t know Jesus, determine the laws of this land.
Being thankful is a fleeting thought that seems to die as soon as it was born. Selfishness is all too common and acceptable.
I find a lot of christians oblivious to the devices of satan and ignorant of the Word of God, thereby, becoming apathetic and religious, having a form of godliness and denying the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
It is fearful and sad to see the world I live in becoming a pagan society.
I thought on these things that are weighty and too great for me. I realized that I am only one person. I realized that the only real control I have is with ME. Will I commit to pray? Will I become hungry enough to spend more and more time in the presence of my Father. Will I yield myself to become sensitive to the voice and leading of the Holy Spirit. Am I willing to be corrected? Am I willing to be taught? Am I willing to lay down my life to pursue and complete the purpose God has for me? Am I 100% willing? Jesus was.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. John 3:16-17
