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.
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?
