Ministry is not something you
spend a great deal of time talking about. It is service - something you do. The fields are always ripe for
harvest, but can God find us doing the
work of bringing men to Christ, instead of just talking about it?
I was walking to the supermarket
not long ago, when I noticed three or four shopping carts that had been
abandoned on the nearby sidewalks. The Lord began to speak to my heart as I
approached the carts. He explained to me
that these carts were useless setting there on the sidewalk, because they were
misplaced and out of the element for which they were created. He told me to gather them and take them back
to the supermarket where they would once again be useful and appreciated.
This a picture of evangelism - gathering precious people
who are standing around, going nowhere, and doing nothing useful in God's
sight. We are to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with them and lovingly usher
them to the House of God where they will be put to work as soldiers in the Army
of the Living God. They get their lives
back and help bring many others - who are spiritually dead like they were - to
eternal life in Christ.
If this generation is to be
saved, we must be trained to gather the wayward, bring them to the House of
God, and show them the blessed Kingdom life that's ours in the Spirit! Pray
this prayer with me:
"Lord, now
that I am gathered to You, teach me to gather others, who will gather others,
that
Your house and Your joy might be filled! In the name of Jesus, Amen."
Love,
Pastor Eric
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