We live in such a comfortable lifestyle that we don’t want to get out of. ”Why would anyone think about leaving this comfortable life, and go to places where people are suffering? Those jobs are for the missionaries, we’re called to do something else, to gain influence in the eyes of the world so that we can glorify God. I’m going to passively help those who are suffering by supporting the missionaries. Then God will be glorified.”
By thinking this, you have spat in God’s face.
God’s called EVERY single one of us to be His disciples. He calls us to go out and to make disciples of all nations. What makes you think that God needs your riches and fame to bring HIS glory to HIS people? You are belittling God’s powers and you know what I don’t think you’re serving the God that I serve. My God used Moses, a stuttering coward to lead an entire people out of slavery. My God used Gideon, a coward who doubted God’s powers to defeat millions of Midianites with 300 Israelites. My God sent 3 boys into a fiery furnace, not to burn, but to show the king the awesome powers of God. My God sent His ONLY BEGOTTEN SON to die for the entire human race and to face the heavenly wrath for ALL our sins.
My God, who can do ALL of that doesn’t need your riches and your fame.
Luke 9:57 - 62 shows what Jesus requires of His followers. He requires that you don’t look back, that you leave all that is from the world with the world, that you only look forward, to what’s ahead and where God is going.
Matthew 10 calls us to devote all we have and to put all the trust we have in God. God will lead us and God alone will save us, and God alone will bring glory to His name.
So I challenge you, walk down that narrow path of righteousness. Ask God for desperation. Don’t settle for the goals that the world has put down for you. All the riches of this world cannot save a soul. I hope you don’t take this as a discouragement. It’s a challenge for you to live a life that Jesus really called you to live. My only fear in life is this:
Matthew 7:21-23
“21 ”Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demonsin your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me,you workers of lawlessness.’
