A world of this order, where news flashes and time seems to travel rapidly, requires an element that can handle the load. God had that in mind for us as He instigated a thing called faith.
Faith is not just ahead of the game. Faith is ahead of the game before the game is invented. If we are to be a people of faith, then we must become aware that our role is to be far ahead of our ever-changing world. Believing isn't just a step in the plan of salvation. It is our way of life; a new way of life.
As believers in our active Lord, we are not to live as if we are caught by surprise. It was the brave apostle Peter who advised that we not be surprised at the fiery ordeals among us as if some strange thing were happening to us.
Erwin McManus' words lend support as well. The way to not be overwhelmed by the radical changes and speed in our world is to know where you're going, to know why you are going there, and to do it with urgency....My goal is not to keep up with the changing world, but to be standing there waiting for it when it arrives.
The world does not happen to us. We happen to it.
How to keep up with a changing world is to be standing there waiting when it arrives.
How do we do that?
For one, we are to be found more enamored with God than with the creations of the flesh. This is major. To continually be chasing after the latest and the greatest of earth will leave us following change. We will develop a faith system that follows about twenty years behind the advances of the flesh system.
Seeking God through prayer and vision, we want to know what He is thinking for us now and futuristically. This is why the Restoration Movement struggles. It has shifted from restoring visionary faith to restoring the way we did church in the past. One breathes life. The other breeds death.
May we grow to be a people who find greater security in the unknown of God than in the known of man. By this the changing world will find that we have been waiting for it to get here.
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