Pastor’s Thoughts

 

            Most of us are familiar with the presidential quote, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” Our society seems to be more interested in what Jesus can do for them than what they can do for the Lord.

 

            The needs within a 10 mile radius of our congregation are overwhelming. We have a jail with men and women who have made bad choices because they do not know how to get direction from the Lord. There are many broken homes and broken hearts crying for spiritual, emotional and physical healing. We have abused children, people who are hungry and families that are out of work. So many have made choices that have left them empty and searching for something. We know that something is really someone… the one called Jesus.

 

            Every Christian knows the great physician is capable of healing broken lives. Jesus does so much more than remove sins. He restores the soul; he removes guilt and emotion scars, as well as offering hope and a new beginning. Those who have not yet experienced His saving and sustaining grace wonder in darkness; depending on a unstable, unfair, and uncaring world to help them find a way out of their despair. Believer I hope you know the world does not hold the answer, I pray you understand that there is only one way, one truth, and one life that offers the lost a way out of the mire, His name is Jesus!

           

            Matt 9:37-38 reminds us of the words of our Savior, “Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; 38 Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.”

 

            Who can God send? Who is willing to live a faithful, godly life that the Lord can depend on to share His way, truth and life? Who will move outside of their comfort zone to engage a community with the message that they so desperately need to embrace?

 

            I know the Lord is all powerful, but His word makes it clear that he has chosen to trust the fate of world into the hand of His church. Consider the confidence he has in us and the power of His word. Surely he wouldn’t leave a sinful would in which he died, in the hands of the church if he had not planned to provide the means for them to carry out His mission. He simply needs willing hearts that will trust in His power and provision to making themselves available to carry out his will. Will you be one of those who will ask Lord what would you have me to do?

 

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