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?
