When it comes
to our relationship with God and His church it is sometimes one sided. We have
great expectations of them, but find serving, obeying, and following an
inconvenience and a problem. We need to focus fully on God and seek His plan
and vision for our lives.
President John
F Kennedy, a man of vision, said in His inaugural address:
Now the
trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not
as a call to battle, though embattled we are - but a call to bear the burden of
a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope,
patient in tribulation" - a struggle against the common enemies of man:
tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the
role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from
this responsibility - I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would
exchange places with any other people or any other generation.
Listen carefully to these last words. The energy, the faith, the devotion
which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it --
and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. And so, my fellow
Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for
your country.
Energy, faith and devotion
will bring light into our country, and the glow can truly light the world! Are
you ready church to let the light of God shine? Then ask not what God or the
church can do for you, but what can you do, where can you serve, where can you
minister, to bring glory to the kingdom
of God ? It is time for
God’s church to rise up and “stimulate” the world in the Name of Jesus! Amen?