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God Needs You

When Australia was a new nation, its leaders selected a crest to represent the country.  Two animals stood, one on each side of the crest – the kangaroo and the emu.

The two animals were chosen because of a unique common characteristic – while each turns their head to glance backward in order to get their bearing, they always move forward.

Though each animal is very swift afoot (30 mph) neither is able to walk backwards.

The founders of Australia wanted their country represented by what moved forward, never backward.  Kangaroos and emus look back and leap forward.

There are two times when individuals and organizations have a tendency to stop – after a defeat and after a victory.  Such lack of progress greatly affects momentum.

Persistent people begin their success when most others quit.

One person with commitment, persistence and endurance will accomplish more than 1,000 people with interest alone.

The past is for remembering, not living.  Life is understood backwards, but lived forward.

Most of us have dreams, plans for how we desire our lives to be lived.  And most of us will die without achieving many of them.

Have you ever wondered what God has dreamed, planned for you?

When He created you, who did He mean?  Plato said, “You did not come into the world by accident, but at the very moment God had need of you.”

Whatever God has dreamed, planned for your life is something the world greatly needs.

God is my Cup of Tea!

Life is often made more interesting by the questions it prompts.

Questions like –           

• What is my purpose?
  
• Why am I here?
  
• What is my place?
  
• Where do I belong?
  
• What should I be doing?

Then there is the ultimate question of – Is there a God?  And if there is, what does He expect of me?

Since we are created for a specific purpose, we cannot adopt an attitude of neutrality toward the God who made us without being morally irresponsible.

God is not optional – He is an imperative.  Only by the Spirit of God acting on our human spirit can we ever be enabled to behave as God intended us to behave. Our behavior is intended by God to be a pure expression of His divine nature.

The moment you come to realize that only God can make a man whole, you are left with no option but to find God, to know God, and to let God be God in you and through you.

It takes God to be a man, and wholeness is the consequence of God’s capacity to reproduce Himself in you.

When you act in strict obedience to the “truth” of God’s Word, the “truth” behaves, and the end effect is wholeness.

The Christian life is not so much what we do to please God but the yielding of our lives to Him so that He can, through the indwelling Christ, do through us His will.

All of Him is in me – all of Him in me is available to me and through me to the world around me.

Think about this through the analogy of a cup of hot water and a tea bag. The water is not the tea and the tea is not the water.  They are two separate items.

When the tea bag is placed in the water, a remarkable thing takes place – the water changes color and nature.  It becomes indwelt by a new and dominant nature.

The nature of the tea saturates the water until it becomes tea – not water.  For the water to exist now is for tea to exist.

The water could say – it is no longer I that exist, but tea that lives in me.

As a Christian, I am just a cup of water, which, when heated by the Holy Spirit and mixed with faith and indwelt by the Savior, becomes a new creation.