A lot of my messages have a WAKE UP theme.\u00a0 I am finding I am more in need of a wake up call than anyone.<\/p>\n
The Bible describes the state of the church today with a lot of verses.\u00a0 I can summarize it with one word, ASLEEP!!!!\u00a0 In Revelation God calls us “rich, blind, and naked,\u00a0and in need of nothing.” Meaning we are not only blind to how fruitless we are, we are also satisfied in our fruitless condition as well. In the gospels Jesus uses the parable of the sower to describe one type as bearing no fruit because the crop was choked by weeds.\u00a0 This is the cares and affairs of this life that make a lot of us unfruitful.\u00a0 In 2nd Timothy, God describes the last day church as having a mere form of godliness, with men being covetous, proud, and lovers of pleasures vs. lovers of God.<\/p>\n
There seems to be a sad division right now.\u00a0 Most Christians fit into either a “that’s not me” camp of denial, or a “woe is me” camp of hopelessness.\u00a0\u00a0 I heard a Preacher contrast the days of the book of Acts with today’s Christianity.\u00a0 Back then he said the message was Jesus is coming back, “better get busy!” and now we say Jesus is coming back, “better not bother.”<\/p>\n
The cults are growing.\u00a0 Sin in America is growing faster than you can say Jerry Springer.\u00a0 Most of us have thrown in the towel, and we got weary in the battle.\u00a0\u00a0 We went out with our guns loaded, we ran straight into the front line and fired until we ran out of ammo, and\u00a0not knowing\u00a0what\u00a0to do next,\u00a0we got shot in the back, as we turned around in fear.\u00a0 Instead of simply reloading, we interpret that to say “Man, I was so foolish!\u00a0 I won’t ever\u00a0do that again!” so we instead spend the rest of our Christian lives in training mode and we refuse to fight again.<\/p>\n
And that is why the world is advancing.<\/p>\n
We care about what is going on.\u00a0 We can see the world getting worse.\u00a0 We just are paralyzed by our fears, failures, and fruitlessness.<\/p>\n
And we don’t know what to do.<\/p>\n
I am no spiritual giant.\u00a0 I just get excited when I can write about what the problem is and when I write I seem to be able to see some answers.\u00a0 And if I log off and then go act on the answers maybe there might be some hope left.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, I am waiting in the neutral zone of life.\u00a0 Waiting for the guests of my pity party to finally leave.\u00a0\u00a0 Waiting for\u00a0a thousand blog followers to beg me to come preach for their 12 week revival meeting.\u00a0 Waiting for a billionaire to rescue me from the mundane American Christianity so I can pay all my debts, get the green light to jump out into the ministry full force, and be able to let people see God really will provide for my dream.\u00a0 I have a dream, but the problem is I listen to everyone else tell me “no you don’t, go sit back down and don’t quit your day job!”<\/p>\n
The problem is this living in no-man’s land is killing me, so perhaps you can relate.\u00a0 Maybe others are living there too.\u00a0 I came out of addictions and a life of sin when I got saved.\u00a0\u00a0 I found an amazing freeing spiritual life where I went on mission trips and wrote tracts and preached on the streets and in the prisons.\u00a0 And I thought I was ready for full time ministry so I quit my\u00a0 job but soon fell flat on my face and have been scared to try again\u00a0ever since.\u00a0 But the idea of trying to just maintain my Christianity and not advance my Christianity makes me feel like I am dying inside and burying my talents in a napkin.<\/p>\n
It is my fault for not taking a bolder stand with my calling and for not trusting God during the trials I have gone through.\u00a0 But I also see the Church being double minded too.\u00a0 The Church (and I am not picking on my church, we all tend to do this.)\u00a0 says Jesus is the answer, yet in reality when the hard questions are asked, they send you to the wolves.\u00a0 I.E. the world.\u00a0\u00a0 Jesus is the prince of peace and calms the storms, but if you have serious mental problems, they send you to a psychiatrist for medication.\u00a0 I am a pharmacist, and have been one before I was saved.\u00a0 In my heart, this job is not right.\u00a0 I am giving out “cures” that conflict with what I know about the Bible.\u00a0 Jesus is the answer, but I am expected to say by my actions, “Yes, but Jesus isn’t enough for you.\u00a0 Have some Prozac”.<\/p>\n
I might be “whinier” than usual, but Jesus is the answer but they don’t like my questions.\u00a0 I am called to preach but I can’t do a thing about it because in all our minds, Jesus knows better than to call someone who can make $100,000 a year by his career.\u00a0 So what if he has to compromise everything he believes. So what if it kills him.\u00a0 So what if it doesn’t match what we believe.<\/p>\n
And in the meantime, God is closing my pharmacy door.\u00a0\u00a0 I lost my overnight position in October. I beat out 38 applicants for a new pharmacy opening in February also in October.\u00a0\u00a0 And now it is May and we are still not open.\u00a0 I am not a math guy, but I think I would have made more being a Preacher!\u00a0\u00a0Let’s\u00a0imagine a job you are paid thousands of dollars\u00a0an hour, but if you can’t get paid for even\u00a01 hour, your net pay is $0.<\/p>\n
If God wants me working pharmacy fine. But I am ready to sell out completely to Jesus and jump out if I can get the green light.<\/p>\n
Right now the “green” from a pharmacy career gives my calling the “red” light.<\/p>\n
I want to thank all of you for reading this post.\u00a0\u00a0 Especially you the billionaire.<\/p>\n
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A lot of my messages have a WAKE UP theme.\u00a0 I am finding I am more in need of a wake up call than anyone. The Bible describes the state of the church today with a lot of verses.\u00a0 I … Continue reading