And on the subject of big problems.. what convicts you?
What gets you out of bed in the morning to get on your knees? To run to the computer to type?
Does anything convict you?
Not so many generations ago my forefathers risked their lives and said goodbye to everything they knew to start a new life. They were convinced that it would be a better life. And I'm sure it was a worse one before it got better. But it got better. It got so good in fact, that just a few years later their great-grandkids didn't even realize that there was such a thing as a hard life.
It's really hard to be motivated sometimes, while I sit on my cushy bed with my matching pine bedroom furniture. But Christians are being killed in China and orphans in Africa and unborn babies in North America yet I go to sleep every night undeterred.
And that makes me sick. But tomorrow it will make me indifferent. So when do I raise my voice? What absolute disgrace would have to happen in front of my eyes for me to do away with complacency? And if I don't raise my voice, then who?
And truthfully I don't know where to begin and I get overwhelmed just thinking about it, but I guess that just means that the only place to begin is right beside my bed. Because whatever I do in life doesn't matter much if I don't hear "Well done, good and faithful servant.", at the end of it all.
So what am I going to do about that?
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