I firmly believe we no longer challenge our people enough.
In fact when someone gets up and says “have you done this this week or that this week?” we seem to think that it is shaming. It is not shaming, it is convicting, it is asking for some internal introspection and seeing if we, the people of God, are ready for the Lord to send Revival.
When we stand before the Bema seat what will we answer for? What we have and have not done for the Lord, so how is it shaming if the pulpit asks?
At the Bema seat are you going to question if God is shaming you?
Have we witnessed?
Have we prayed?
Have we set a Godly example for the lost to see?
Have we kept our eyes on Him?
Have we served?
Is it shaming to ask these questions? Is it shaming to ask the Christian if they have done what God asks of them?
If His people which are called by His name, shall humble themselves and pray, turn from their wicked ways and seek His face.
That’s our part in that equation. Have you or I humbled ourselves? Have we sought His face? Have we - His people - turned from our wicked ways? Have we prayed that He would revive, would Heal and would hear us?
Is it shaming to ask those questions or is it of a necessity that we ask?
After all the main job of the Christian on this earth is to make sure they have a good life here, comfortable and convenient right? Isn’t that what the average Christian thinks? Strives for?
I mean doesn’t God owe us something after all He only died for us, He only gave us His Word, and His Spirit. He owes me!
This is how most of us think. We make decisions, live our life for ourselves, worry about the stock market, the election, the insurance, the house, cars and all that. Don’t get me wrong pay your bills, worry about your family and the obligations you have created here.
Yet is this truly why we are here? If you look throughout history you will see the rich man’s riches, but not the rich man. You will see the poor man hovel’s but not the poor man. You will see the sick man’s bed but not the sick man. If you go to a museum you will see the dental tools of the Civil war, but not the Dentist, for we the mortal, humans we must pass on.
Are we here to amass material things?
Are we here to be comfortable?
No We are not for this is a temporal setting. Yes 70 – 80 yrs is a long time to you or I, but to the 90 yr old? Not really.
The timeless God did not put us here that we might live for us. I know that is a foreign concept that many of us have a hard time getting our brains wrapped around, but it is true nonetheless.
What’s the old cliché? You do not have to believe it, for it to be true. A fact is a fact whether you like it or not.
