A Shot In The Dark.

You’d be hard pressed to find someone who isn’t going through some sort of adversity in their life right now. We all have stuff in our lives that is just hard to deal with sometimes. It’s unbearable and really rattles our faith more than we would like to admit.

People are going through real problems, real issues, real confusion and real weariness right now. People are also tired of a Gospel that claims to be good news when all they see and feel around them is bad news. People are tired of the cliches, the fridge magnets with scripture, and the counterfeit people. Who is this Jesus who claims wonderful things over our lives when all I feel is uncertainty and let down after let down?

Standing on the sideline is just not enough.

Will you be the hands and feet of Jesus? In this evidence based society we live in, people are looking for proof of Jesus and reasoning for His counter culture teachings. After all, the world doesn’t exactly teach us to “pray for our enemies,” but rather seek revenge.

As a culture, we try to negotiate with the ideas of self love, self care, and self pity when we face trials of various kinds. That maybe somehow if we get them right then maybe we can be happy. But, at the end of the day, the more we try to invest in these things, we always end up having to stop and refill over and over again. Never really ending up at a finish line. It’s exhausting! These motives only leave us feeling unfulfilled and never truly satisfied. After all, the human heart spends its entire life longing for a home and only that can be found in Christ. Only Jesus can fulfill and only His believers can demonstrate it here on Earth.

There are countless people walking among us who really tired, done and spent. They need a chance. They need a chance to experience the love of God.

So what will your choice be? Will you be the testimony someone needs to hear today? Will you take the shot in the dark?

And so, we leave you with this Word,

“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:20).