Today I was thinking. What is going to make this summer different from every other summer?
Every summer has been filled with big plans to do this and do that. We've always had huge ideas. We've always talked a big game. Always. Every summer. Whether it's been bible studies to camping trips to hanging out all the time and being best friends. Every year, they've failed. People stopped coming to the bible studies, we never got the time to get a trip around.
This summer, it's going to be different. Truthfully, it's already different for me. The reason, you ask? We're DOING. Not just talking. I'm tired, so tired, of sitting around and talking. Don't get me wrong, people's lives can be changed through the words we share with them. But our actions, they do so much more. The wheels are already set into motion to establish something bigger than me for God to use as He chooses this summer. Today, I challenge you to be a DOER. Be proactive. I know God has laid something on your heart. Even if it's just something you want to do. DO it. You never know when you'll get the opportunity to change someone's life. Big things are happening this summer. And they are actually going to make it because those involved are DOING. I pray for a determination to do whatever it is God has laid on your heart to do with your time, even against the odds. Keep in mind that the enemy does NOT like doers. Sometimes he'll let the talkers do whatever it is they want. But the doers, he attacks them. Hard. That said. Be prepared for a battle. But it's a victorious one.
P.S. If you see me around, feel free to hold me accountable to this.
Desiring Deeper.
Jeremy
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This kind of goes along with the book I've been reading. Talks about how we, as Christians, have become domesticated. That we've fallen into the routine of religion. But that there are some of us who are "barbarians." Like, John the Baptist. He was so set apart from the domesticated world he lived in. He didn't dress like them, talk like them or about the same things, or even eat like them. ha. But we are called to live a life of risk. A life of completely sold out faith. God says jump, you say how high? I guess it all boils down to: are you willing to take the risk? are you willing to be an outcast? are you willing to not have friends, be judged, live a life set apart? Are you willing to trust God to lead you only for His glory? Hard to know until you actually get there. But, I believe this is what we should aim for. We're all called to be ministers. Not in the sense of preacher, etc. But we're told to go out and make disciples.
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