Get Out Of The Way As Leaders & Take On Our Role As Servants

Hebrews 10:28

Jesus is coming to earth a second time to those who are looking for Him and eagerly awaiting Him.  That was the description of the folks who received Him the first time.  Those who aren’t looking and waiting will probably miss Him, just like most folks did the first time; those who did not understand or weren’t even concerned about His coming.  How sad, with all the prep time allowed and all the encouragement to know who He is and what He has done.  Those who miss Him have no excuse.  That makes me sad because I know what they are missing.  But God in His faithfulness and steadfastness has tried over and over again to love all He created; but He will never force Himself.  His love will never fail, but time is getting short.

I am looking for Christ’s return.  I am eagerly looking forward to seeing Him face to face and being taken to the room He has been preparing for me in His Father’s house.  But I have to wonder once in awhile if my life reflects that looking and eager anticipation.  It is easy for me to get distracted with other things like the affairs of the world.  I also find myself getting entangled in the affairs of people around me, especially in the people who are apart of the church and claim to know God, people who are to be reflecting God and His character in their lives, inviting others to know and love God.  Having spent a lot of years working in the church, I fear that we haven’t done a very good job. This is a pattern that has been followed since the beginning of time.  We miss the mark so we look around for fig leaves.  We should really know better by now.

The Bible is a history of God’s people failing in the Covenant He made with them and then trying to figure out how to fix things.  To this day we are still failing the one thing we are to do…obey God.  We are continually back in the garden listening to Satan asking, “Did God say?”  We are still back in the garden chewing on the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil deciding for ourselves what is good and what is not.  We still choose to ignore God’s voice and listen to ourselves, to others, to our culture, or to the world’s new and improved enlightened movement.  By now one would think that we would be beyond that.

Before Jesus came they may have had an excuse.  But now, we live under the new Covenant that Jesus initiated.  Through Him we have direct access to God.  God has put His laws in our hearts and written them on our minds.  Deep inside we have His Spirit convicting and convincing us of the difference between right and wrong, good and evil.  Our problem is obeying God.  We’d much rather do what we want to do and what works best for us.  So we keep on committing the two evils we always have.  We abandon God, the source of living waters and dig our own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

I love God’s creation; I love my life in Him; I love people.  I have spent much of my life’s time and energy on trying to fix thins and people who were broken, beginning with myself.  But what I realize more and more is that only God can fix what is truly broken and is the root for all the other brokenness;  a vital and whole relationship with Him.  Once that central thing is accomplished all the other “stuff” will fall into place, if we humans get out of the way as leaders and take on our roles as servants.  God did His part through Jesus.  Now it’s time to do our part by believing and receiving all that was finished on the cross.  Once we know our role it will free up time to look and eagerly wait the return of the One who made that relationship with God possible.  Maranatha!  Come Lord Jesus, Come!