Help I’m Stuck in a Jar!

Posted on 05. Mar, 2010 by admin in God Stuff

Do you ever look at your life and wonder “how did I get here?” And after you ask that question, do you ever wish you would be somewhere else by now; or your life would be different?

I think so many of us ask that question and wish our lives were different but in our hearts feel like “this is the way it is…”

So much of our American life is tied to our man-made responsibilities- long hours of work that eat up most of the day (or our life even), the mortgage, the bills, the car payments, keeping food on the table, etc.

The world puts so many demands on us, but we need to remember that we may be in the world but we are not of the world. We belong to God.

In light of that- I want to do what I was designed to do. I want to fulfill the purposes and plans that God has set out for me before the beginning of time.

When I stop and take a good hard look at the world around me, I think it is safe to say in many regards, things are a mess…

25,000 children around the world are dying every day from preventable causes…

1 Billion people live without access to clean water…

Children are being sold into the sex-trade where they are made into child prostitutes…

Churches seem to be more caught up in being relevant and competing with the world than trusting in the Holy Spirit to lead men to salvation- all the while our brothers and sisters are suffering beyond our comprehension.

I feel like we are missing it…

I read my Bible and try to envision what the early Church looked like, their priorities, their focus, their vision and dreams. What fueled them? How did they live?

They lived like they had discovered the meaning of life! They lived like their lives didn’t matter because it was all about sacrificial love for our brothers and sisters. They put each other’s needs ahead of their own and as a result, no one went without.

They sold all that they had and relied on God to be their Provider. They took God at His Word and lived it.

They boldly proclaimed the Gospel of Christ and as a results witnessed the power of God.

When I read how they lived and I am challenged by it. I want it. I want to be a part of that.

We read the accounts of the disciples in the New Testament and are in awe of what they saw and how God used them.

I believe God wants to do those things and more today! I believe God is stirring people up in their Spirits to stop living by the world standards and start living as children in His Kingdom.

I want to reiterate- God says that we are in the world but we are not of the world. We are supposed to be different! People are supposed to look at our lives and say “I want that!” “ I want that PEACE. I want that FREEDOM. I want to feel like MY life has a PURPOSE.”

The Kingdom of Heaven is supposed to be like a pearl, the greatest treasure….

We should WANT to give up everything that we have and all that we are in light of coming into a relationship with our Heavenly Father.

Do you look at your life and feel like you are missing it? You are not alone.

In John 15:4-5 it reads “Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me, and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from Me you can do nothing”

This is powerful. When I prayed about how do I start living in God’s Kingdom and not as a prisoner of the world, this is the verse that the Lord impressed upon me.

We need to press in to the Father. We need to abide in Him. God does not want us to just start doing- he wants us to be an extension of Himself that He can use.

We don’t need to strive. We need to let God work through us.

He promises that if we abide in Him than we will produce much fruit!

2 Chronicles 16:9 The eyes of the Lord search the whole earth in order to strengthen those hearts who are fully committed to Him.

I want the eyes of the Lord to be upon me.

I am pressing in. I am drawing closer to Him. I want to live and abide in Him. I want to be set apart from this world so that nothing will hinder me from living out what God created me to do.

That is my prayer.

As you read this today, I pray that you would feel a stirring in your Spirit that would cause you to draw closer to Him and that you would ask Him the plans and purposes that He created you for!

It is never too late.

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