I had a good chat with an old friend the other day, catching up on recent life events and opportunities. She's at a point where it appears that God may be asking a pretty huge step of her, and she is trying to weigh out what she wants, what God wants, and where the lines fall between faith and foolishness. It was a fun conversation, as we discussed heart issues, dreams, and how God interacts with us. The primary point, or 'message' as you will, was adventure.
Stirring somewhere down inside my heart & brain is an exciting adventure story. Whether it will be fiction, allegorical or motivational is yet to be seen, as is whether or not I will ever succeed in putting it in words! The primary theme of my unplotted tale, however, is of an elite team of specially trained agents bent on taking over the world... not with guns, bombs and tanks, or with lies, propaganda and coercion. Their mission, (should they choose to accept it?!) is to spy out the land, determine targets, take aim, and change a city... a region... a state... a nation... a continent... a hemisphere... a planet...
one life at time.
Their weapons? Prayer. Prophecy. Wisdom. Healing. Compassion. Truth. Submission. Obedience. Faith. Love. An unfightable combination of power that catches a soul off guard and changes them forever. A growing force that can not be stopped, and each conquest, instead of bringing exhaustion and a time of rest, inspires further heroics and a greater eagerness and burning need to do it again, to impact someone else. Each apparent defeat does not result in despair, but an opportunity to restrategize, employ patience, and leave the situation in peace, trusting that the Commander in Chief's master plan is unchanged and perfectly effective.
This tale should not be fiction. It should be a documentary, chronicling the adventures and deeds of the greatest army the world has ever imagined - an army who is successful beyond all measure, yet leaves no bloodshed in it's wake. An army that grows larger with each victory, because the defeated set aside their old ways and voluntarily join the victors, eager to joyfully impact the next life they encounter.
It should be the story of the Church. A nation, a family who simultaneously recognize and work to conquer their own weaknesses while sharing everything they know of the truth with starving people. We should be feeding the poor, protecting the widows, adopting the orphans, guiding the lost, healing the sick, and providing a light and a map to the blind and the confused.
We should be impacting the world around us in such a way that strangers want what we have, family members are lining up to be saved, and friends and coworkers are asking what this Jesus thing is all about.
Why did we lose it? Why did the God's children not maintain? How do we recover, and return to the place He desires us to be in?
Are you interested in being a part of a powerful, energetic team like that? Do you want to change the world?
Do I?
