Good morning Zebras,
I believe God started Zebras not to encourage us to look
different than the world, but to look different than the majority of people who
go to church. At the time I just
couldn’t sit on the pew anymore and be lukewarm-the desire to get out of the
boat and walk on water was all consuming.
But I needed/wanted other water-walkers. I needed other people who wanted to be crazy
for Christ. Other people who saw what I saw-that the tiny faith displayed by
the average American Christian falls far short of the faith depicted in the
Bible.
Jesus Christ deserves everything we have and the love of God
should compel us to give it all to Him and “run with perseverance the race He
has marked out for us.”
Of course, each of us have a different race, each of us have
a different gift, but we all have the same God and the same responsibility to
work out our “salvation with fear and trembling” and to give Him everything we
got.
There are enough people in the world who will allow us to
sin, we don’t need any more. What we
need are people who are going to hold us accountable to the standard God laid
down in the New Testament.
God is able to do far more than we ever think or imagine and
He is able to ignite a fire in the heart of the lukewarm if they are
willing. But if they aren’t willing they
can easily become a stumbling block.
Those who want to “sit for Jesus” feel better when everyone else is
sitting too.
Having spent my whole life as a “fluffy” person I can tell
you it can be convicting to eat with a person who is passionate about their
body, even if they don’t say anything. What
they believe is obvious by how they look and they choices they make.
I think the same should be true of us. Our passion for Jesus Christ should be convicting
to those who are lukewarm because our life should speak volumes about what it
looks like to live all out for God.
A few weeks ago I shared a collage I made when I was still
teaching. I told you it was my “coming
out party” at work because what I had depicted, in cut out pictures, was my all-consuming
passion to be transformed into the living image of Christ.
And that is still true, but I think I’ve gone a step further,
it is no longer enough to be transformed into the image of Christ now I pray to
be filled with the fire of the Holy Spirit so that my passion for God, as
revealed through Jesus Christ, makes a difference.
Love,
Jill
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