Disclaimer: this will be an explosion of words and emotions.
I am sitting here in a coffee shop with the most spontaneous of emotions drumming in my heart.
I want to scream. I want to yell tantalizing words to the people here. I want to shake them out of their moment, their place. I want to shake them out of who they are. There’s a church office next door, my church actually, and I want to run in there throwing over chairs and tables and throwing papers. Because there’s something in me that is restless. I want to shake it all up.
I know what you’re thinking. I’m on the brink of something big. I just got back from training camp. I’m on the edge of a cliff about to jump off and the adrenaline is coursing through my veins. True. True. True and true. But don’t dismiss away what you're feeling too. That’s right. It’s burning inside of you, that deep pounding and the slowly fading but ever surfacing longing – it’s there and you’ve numbed it.
Wake up Sons and Daughters! Wake up! You were made for so much more!
I’m not diminishing your job. I’m not diminishing where He has you. I’m not diminishing the redemptive work in your life in Jesus. He is doing great things. Some things will never be realized until a couple generations later. I am a product of that through my grandparents.
But I want you to stop being complacent. I want you to jump out of your comfort zone. I want you to stop planning your life around TV shows. I want you to open your eyes, open your ears. I want you to feel and to hurt and to bleed. I want you to know that you’re alive. Not through the avenue of quaint moralism. Not through feeling good about things you've done. Not through laughter or happiness or entertainment. See through the lies of the enemy. You've been paralyzed far too long. You've grown intellectually, but you're just a body builder who doesn't know anything but to flex his muscles. It's just for show. It's just for looks.
I want you to empathize. I want you to cry and search and love and go beyond your sphere of understanding. I want you to step into the unknown. I want you to lean on the Spirit so that if He doesn't come through, your time on earth just may be up.
I want it for you. And I want it for me.
I’ve been reading World Race blogs, old and new. And for some reason I keep coming across Thailand. I keep reading the blogs of sex trafficking, women exploited. Before you continue, open your heart. Let yourself feel. The Father has given us these emotions for a reason. He has created you to be exactly who you are for a reason. And He has never called us to engage people with a numb heart.
Read about the Father’s heart.
Read about a Daughter's story.
Read about a Son's desire.
W A K E U P
There are women who are literally being born and dying in slavery. There are men and women who will search for Truth their whole lives and never discover it. There are children dying of curable diseases. This isn’t a guilt blog. This is a reality blog. WAKE UP.
I preach as much to myself as I do to you. I haven’t gone yet. The worst thing about the Race is how romanticized it has become. I know it won’t be as glorious as I envision it to be. But I know it will be worth it. I haven’t even stepped into the darkness of the world, but Papa has placed a longing to ‘serve the least of these’. Is your heart numb? Are you burning for fiery justice? Not just justice for the sake of ethics and moral rights. No, rather, justice for redeeming and restoring lost Sons and Daughters whose path has become wayward, those who have never had the chance to receive endless adoration from their Father. Does your heart yearn for earth to be like heaven? Let Him grow that in you.
Jesus is GOOD. He is the Slain Lamb. And He is worthy to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing.
How do YOU respond?
