Traveling
around the world may seem like your living awake and taking every opportunity
but the reality of traveling is this.
All the places start to look the same after a few days of arriving, it
looses its luster. The only way to live
awake is to be truly alive to the Spirit and listening to His voice everyday
and taking actions where you are at. The
will of the Lord is to glorify Himself and we glorify Him when we share His
gospel, the story of Him redeeming us from our sinful selves.
We live
awake by sharing the gospel and that can take many different forms. But the idea is that we are aware of what the
Spirit is telling us. Perhaps He is
telling us to just start a conversation and hear someones story or perhaps it’s
even sharing your testimony of what the Lord has done for you. He even uses the physical to work miracles to
bring glory to Himself, so even if your walk is far away from Him, perhaps He
speaks loud and clear to you one day and performs a miracle through you and it
not only brings the other person into a right relationship with God but also
corrects the steps and path you were heading down.
I have
found myself at times so worried that I might say the wrong thing or do
something that might offend someone and in turn, I end up doing nothing. This is the sin of omission. We all have special giftings and when we don’t
use those giftings, I believe we not only turn our ear away from the Spirit but
we are also sinning by not doing something that we out to. We are to be united in one spirit but with
different giftings. I can not be all
things, so I need my brothers and sisters who are completely different than me
to be the very best son or daughter they can be because they can reach people
that I can never reach because of who they are.
So when we are not doing our part in the body, the body suffers. Lord give us mercy and grace but more so
bring conviction into action so that the empowerment that you already gave the
Church, your beautiful bride, may be realized and come to completion. Amen.
