Thoughts of a Servant

“Aw man, God, it didn’t quite work out”

“Im sorry God, maybe I wasn’t supposed to talk to that person”

“Well I will be okay God, I can still make it”

These are all very common statements that we say after something doesn’t go as we planned…  But why do we do that?  God’s plan is perfect, it happens exactly as it should.  Francis Chan puts it perfectly when he states that we always trust God enough to where we will be able to maintain ourselves if “God doesn’t come through.”

We are obeying a living Christ.  He is alive and well, and he is transforming lives.  Why must we say that we must accept everyone?!?!  We should be saying that, we should be saying “You should accept Christ!”  And in that we will come to accept each other.

I was recently told about a man who heard me preach on 1 Corinthians 15:19-20, where Paul writes, “If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men.  But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead.”  This man was convicted that since Christ is indeed alive, he needed to live like it.  So he quit his well-paying job and became a pastor– Something he had felt called to do for a while. … The world needs Christians who don’t tolerate the complacency of their own lives. (Chan, 172)

A question he asks in his book, Crazy Love, is: Is this what I want to be doing when Christ comes back?

Let me repeat…

Is this what I want to be doing when Christ comes back?

Your job, your friends, your free time, your life– Is that what you want Christ to see when he returns?

We are going to be judged in front of the Almighty God.  If all we can say to Him are quotes from a movie or how many levels you won in a game or how many parties you went to, why would He have any reason to give you Eternal salvation when he clearly states, “The King will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.” (Matthew 25:40 NIV)  So if we spend our time saving souls for the name of Jesus, you will be welcomed and Jesus will smile as you walk into his arms and He embraces you.

For we must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil. (2 Cor. 5:10)