Day 12
What great things is God calling you to do? What is it that burns with passion in your soul. God will give us the strength we need to match the passion that He has placed within each of us as we stretch out and trust in Him!
“They go from strength to strength
till each appears before God in Zion.”
Psalms 84:7
The unspoken American motto, “Bigger, Better, Faster, More” can be either a blessing or a curse. The way of life that has led to that phrase has helped contribute to both the unprecedented advances and unbearable stresses of life in Western culture. In science, technology, and education (not to mention world missions) the United States of America has contributed the lion’s share to global progress. Yet America is also among the most stressed and fatigued of all nations.
Americans are seldom content. This discontentment drives us to constantly look for ways to upgrade our standard of living, education, status, and our influence in society. It also drives us to seek solutions to problems such as world hunger, cancer, and AIDS. The great Americans who have harnessed this drive and put it to godly purposes have gone down in history as world changers.
There is always more. There are always greater heights of glory to be attained. The path of the righteous is ever onward and upward, “brighter and brighter until the full light of day,” as Solomon wrote. If the success of the harvest is judged not by how much was brought in but by how much is left in the field, then we still have much work to do. The believer may likewise look on his own spiritual growth in the same light: How much growth remains until perfectly conformed to the glory of Christ? This realization should not burden us, but inspire us to a greater walk with God, a deeper intimacy, an increasing faith, a deepening love, and an ever-growing fruitfulness as His children.
The Lord is calling our church to things bigger and better than ever before. The believers of River Oaks Community Church have already done far beyond all reasonable expectations, yet the Lord is calling us to higher. And He asks us to embrace this servant’s fire, this driven passion not with anxiety or stress, but in the tranquility of His peace.
Prayer focus: Ask God to give you wisdom and zeal together. Pray that both would be vast, active, and powerful in your life. Pray that the fire of God would grow among us to earth-shaking proportions. Pray for those who are under great stress to know God’s peace.
“Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways you can in all the places you can to all the people you can as long as you ever can.” John Wesley
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