Called to Serve

By the title of this, you're probably thinking about something church related, and we'll get there, but actually I had federal jury duty yesterday and this is the title of their orientation video. The video talked about what a honor and a duty we have as citizens of the United States, to be able to serve our country within the judicial system. I had 19 other people that were involved in the process with me "and boy did we have variety". I only related to them in terms of the court system, but through some of the jury selection process and through body language, you could tell who wanted nothing to do with being a juror, who was indifferent, and who was willing to be involved in the process. The thought that I had was, you will know them by their fruit and though it was only a short time period, I could see the fruit of over half the people there just by their body language and their answers to the judges questions. It's so interesting how biblical principals apply to all of life, whether you believe in the Bible or not.

The same is true with our relationship to Christ, Matt. 22:8-14 reminds us that many are called, but few make the choice to truly serve God and go after Him no matter what is going on around them. The difference between the jury and God is, the judge and the lawyers make the decision whether or not you're going to be chosen, with Christ, you make the choice whether you will be chosen. Will you follow Him Christ? Will you follow Him just enough to get by, or will you envelope your life with service to Him?

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Your's, Mine, or God's

Have you ever thought about the idea of who's ministry are we involved in? Is it "Your" ministry, "My" ministry or "God's" ministry? For those of you that were here on Sunday Night we watched the movie "Flywheel" from teh makers of "Facing the Giants". One of the thoughts that movie presented was, what if we're looking at "money" wrong (you can switch "life" for money too). Instead of looking at the money we make as ours, what if we looked at it as God's money that he's allowing us to manage. I thought that was a great point, but it brought me to another thought that I thought I'd present to you. "Who's ministry are we involved with?", both in a general sense and a specific sense.

Expectations

I was just talking with some people the other day about how we expect people that are in church to have been walking with the Lord for a long time. I think we view them in relation to there physical maturity rather then their spiritual maturity. These two mindsets are exteremly different. Because we are "reborn" through Christ, that rebirth could have happened at any time. I think this plays a key role in how we relate to others and why we sometimes get offended or frustrated with church people, along with the reality that although we go to church and hopefully and prayerfully are believers, we are still human and at some times within our journey, walk in the natural man and not the spirit man.