Dangerous

Hey all,

Have you ever felt lukewarm spiritually?  Not hot.............not cold.........but just lukewarm.  Middle of the road.  Vanilla.  Neutral.  Kind of like spiritual Switzerland.

Have you ever felt like you are too safe spiritually?  Secure. Conservative.  Everything is within your comfort zone. There is no risk.  All Cozy.  Comfortable.  Not playing offense........but not playing defense either.  On the sidelines. 

Sound familiar?  I think we all get there from time to time don't we?

But really................who wants to be be safe?  Who wants to be lukewarm?  

I believe all of us have a desire to fight for what is good.   We were made that way.  We were made to be "in" the game.........not on the sidelines.  We all have a role to play.  We know when we are "not" playing our role because eventually we get bored.  Bored spiritually.  We know it when it happens.  We feel bored.

But again.......who wants to be to be safe and lukewarm? 

Not me.  I want to be Dangerous.  I want to be Hot.  I want to be Dangerous for the Kingdom.  I want to be "in the fight".  I want to do things that are taking back "surrendered ground".  As my friend said recently, "I want to have scars in Heaven!".  Spiritual scars from being in the fight, not on the sidelines.  I want to be engaged. 

But we have to go out and make it happen.  It doesn't just happen naturally.  In fact, the enemy wants to do everything he can to keep it from happening.  He loves it when we are safe and lukewarm.  We are no threat.  We are not a danger to him at all.  So.....we have to get in the game.  The game doesn't come to us, we have to go to the game.  Play our role. 

What about you?  Are you feeling safe and lukewarm?

Maybe it's time to be Dangerous. 

For good.

Strength and Honor,

-S 

PS.....picture is from Golan Heights in Israel.  Old Israeli tank from the war.

Time Out!

Hey all,

Remember when you were a kid playing games and when you wanted it to stop.............you just yelled......."Time out!"  It was like the law.  The game stopped.  You got a chance to catch  your breath, or recover from an injury, or go to the bathroom, or whatever.  It just stopped.  The universal and understood statement of "Time Out!"............would stop time.  And almost every time.......it was honored.  If you called it...........it was so. Man that was great wasn't it?  

Don't you wish it was that way now?

Unfortunately, there is no "Time Out" in Life.  We cannot ever shut it off.  Some days wouldn't it be great to just yell...."Time Out!".....and have time stand still.  Time to catch our breath. Time to recover.  Time to just.....be still.  Find rest for our soul.

So what do we do then? 

Actually.......we can find the rest we long for.  It is available.  But we have to actually walk through life to get it.  We have to make the choice.  We have to ask for the right way.....the good way........and then walk in it.  Walk in it. Not call "Time Out".....but actually walk.  Move forward.

Check out Jeremiah 6:16.

"Thus says the LORD:
“Stand by the roads, and look,
   and ask for the ancient paths,
where the good way is; and walk in it,
   and find rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

The Lord calls us to first stand at the roads (Life) and look.  Stand still long enough to take life in.  Then to ask the right way (through HIM)...............and then to walk.  To seek the good way (through HIM).  Then walk in it.  And we will find "rest for our souls".  Our life version of "Time Out".  The rest we seek.  It is available.  Through HIM.  Through Jesus. 

But check out the last verse......."But they said...we will not walk in it".  There is the choice.  We have to choose to walk in it. If we don't walk with HIM......there will be no rest.  No "Time Out".  No life.

I don't know about you............ but I am gonna keep walking. 

Are you?

Strength and Honor,

-S