(Post by: Lilly Hobbs)
As I sit here asking the Lord what He has for me, and for each of us today, I must admit that my mind keeps wandering off to the question looming over most of our heads right now…
“How did we, as a Church and as a country, end up here?”
My mind cannot fully comprehend the state we are currently in, so I’m afraid I am unable to give you a simple answer to this question. All I can be certain of is that collectively, as a Church and as a country, we have chosen to take many steps in the wrong direction.
C. S. Lewis once said, “We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.”
We shouldn’t be here, and we wouldn’t be here if we would willingly let our knees hit the altar in repentance instead of continuing to walk in the wrong direction while calling it progress.
We are less than two weeks away from Election Day, and the most frightening concern is that much of the American Church is silent. She is cowering in a corner playing hide and seek with the world, never allowing herself to be found.
Perhaps one of her main struggles is that she has always had a difficult time just observing instead of absorbing.
For so long the Church has looked longingly at the world, wanting so desperately to look like it does and to entertain the sin that it entertains, and slowly she began to absorb the culture she was meant to observe.
This generation of the Church is not the first to experience this struggle. All we must do is look back and remind ourselves of the Corinthian church.
There was gross immorality in the Corinthian church, as well as division, false teachers, and disunity, and it was being tolerated. Paul wrote 1 and 2 Corinthians in order to address their multitude of issues and concerns.
In 2 Corinthians 6:14, Paul asks the Corinthian church a thought-provoking question… “What fellowship has light with darkness?”
I confidently believe the Lord intended for Christians to be world watchers, with the sole purpose of being better witnesses to the generation which we find ourselves in.
My challenge for us, as true Believers, is to cultivate the art of observation. Let us intently study our world and the people within it. Let us educate ourselves about worldviews and religions. Let us understand how the enemy is presently deceiving lost souls regarding policies and politics.
Let us observe without absorbing, so that we may have a mighty Kingdom influence on our little corners of the world.
Always remember, you can change the atmosphere without letting it change you.
1 John 2:15-17 says, “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.”
SO, WHAT IS YOUR RESPONSE?
= How can you observe your world more intentionally this week?
= What are you going to do differently?
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