There has ever been a time in which I have felt more pressed to do more for the Kingdom of God. I feel as if I am standing on the brink an incredibly massive landmine. If I will just take that first step forward I know I will step into an entirely new dimension that will cause my entire world to explode around me.
For years I have been watching as an increasing number of people lose focus of the mission that lies ahead of us. There are some who would ask “what mission?” The mission is to reach the whole world with the gospel.
Unfortunately, I have allowed life to sweep in and distract me. I’ve allowed the good parts and the bad parts distract me from God’s true purpose for my life. How is it that I didn’t push myself to bring the important things back into focus? How is it that I allowed myself to wander so aimlessly?
I may not have all the answers to the questions filling my heart, but what I know is that I feel so incredibly broken inside and coupled with that feeling of brokenness I feel a sense of deep sorrow. I cannot escape from an overwhelming sense of grief.
However, I don’t want to escape from this heaviness that I feel. I can’t afford to allow myself to lose sight of this moment in time. I sense that the sands of time are quickly passing through the final earthly hourglass.
There is one word that keeps reverberating inside of my mind and it is tucked down deep inside my heart. I hear it echoing over and over again. I cannot escape from it. The word that I keep hearing is a simple word but a powerful word. “People”.
When the final grain of sand falls from the eternal hourglass of time and the clouds roll back and our Savior returns for his bride where is it that “people” will go?
How is it that I have lost sight of the fact that hell enlarges daily? How is it that I have lost sight of the fact that God, my Savior is not willing that any should perish? How is it that my generation has become satisfied with NOT being His hands and feet? How is it that I have allowed myself to become lukewarm? How is it that I’ve allowed myself to come to the very edge of hell completely satisfied with playing with the world and ignoring the flames licking at my own feet?
What would happen if we were able to see our loved ones standing on the verge of entering hell? What would happen if the blindness in our spirit lifted and we watched as hell enlarged itself and our loved ones were swept into a world of eternal flames and torment?
What if at that very moment his or her eyes met yours and you saw them mouth the words “Why didn’t you…?”
That simple phrase would haunt each of us because it would be easy for us to finish the sentence with any number of reasons or excuses. We understand that we our loved ones may be on their way to hell but we somehow find the time to remain complacent and sometimes even fall asleep.
I must awaken from my slumber and I must allow myself to be moved with compassion. I must allow myself to look at my family, look at my friends, look across my city, and across my nation and weep for them.
I cannot escape from the fact that maybe I’ve been called for such a time as this. Perhaps you’ve been called for such a time as this as well. Perhaps you’ve been called to step forward and to become part of a generation of people that becomes Satan’s worst nightmare.
Do you hear God calling you to awaken from your slumber? Do you hear Him calling you to step forward and fight? We are on the brink of one of the greatest wars known to man and it isn’t a war that will be fought by bombs and guns. It will be a war fought in prayer and by fasting.
Now is the time to step forward and launch an attack on the enemy because we know who wears the Victor’s crown!