The Question is…What Are You Going to Do About It?
As Christians we are supposed to be God’s builders here are earth. The problem is that most of us don’t bother to look at the Blueprint and we don’t build according to the Architect’s plan.
We all have our idea of what we expect it to look like.
This plan has never worked very well. In John 18:33-37 Jesus went before Pilot because the people were expecting something else…they missed Him. Pilot expected something else…he missed Him.
Pastor Lee shared the poem And So They Missed Him that explains this pretty well.
They were looking for an adult, but He came as a little infant Babe,
and so they missed Him.
They were looking for a lion, but He came as a Lamb,
and so they missed Him.
They were looking for a warrior, but He came as a Peacemaker,
and so they missed Him.
They were looking for a king, but He came as a Servant,
and so they missed Him.
They were looking for liberation from Rome, but He submitted to the Roman State,
and so they missed Him.
They were looking for their temporal needs to be met, but He came to meet their spiritual and eternal needs, and so they missed Him.
Good intentions don’t make a difference…it takes action.
God has given us everything we need to build His Kingdom, but it’s up to us to do something.
Robert Pierce was a Baptist minister that found himself working with the Youth for Christ in China. On one trip, he met Tena Hoelkeboer, a missionary teacher, who presented him with a battered and abandoned child. Unable to care for the child herself, Tena asked Pierce, “What are you going to do about her?” Pierce gave the woman his last five dollars and agreed to send the same amount each month to help the woman care for the child.
He was deeply affected by the wartime poverty and human suffering that he witnessed in both China and Korea and in 1950 he founded World Vision International.
World Vision International is a service organization that meets the emergency needs of missionaries. It is active in more than 90 countries with a total revenue including grants, products and foreign donations of USD 2.90 billion (2019).
When Robert gave the five dollars to Tena, he didn’t know what this would become. He just followed God’s Blueprint and started building.
Don’t miss His plan for you.
Study the Blueprint and start building!
Exclusive makes us feel special. We want to be somebody, to be valuable, to stand out from the crowd. We think exclusive clubs will do this for us. If there’s only room for a few and I get in, then I’m important.
There’s a different kind of club out there called the Kingdom Club. It’s inclusive and easy to join. All that’s required is accepting the invitation and willingness to follow a few simple rules.