This New Years I have a great opportunity to experience something great. If it all turns out in my favor, I will be going to Atlanta for three days to attend the Passion Conference where I will be blessed to listen to great preaching and teaching from some of America's most influential church leaders and worship the One, True God with thousands of Christians gathered in the Philip's Arena. In light of all that may happen in my near future, I cannot help but to ask myself what is it going to take?
All my life I have been blessed to be in the presence of great men and women of God. I have been taught, mentored, and discipled by people that love the Lord and that want to see me love God more and more. I have been on many mission trips and I have been to many camps where God moved in an extraordinary way in the lives of many. I have listened to great preaching, worshipped God corporately with like-minded people, and have been to prayer meetings that I wished would never end. In light of all this, I cannot help to ask myself what is it going to take?
See, right now I am learning a lot about God and what His Word says, but I am not sure if you would be able to notice. And the reason you might not be able to notice is because I am not practicing what I am learning. I may not be practicing beligerent sin, but living a life worthy of the calling of Christ is not about what you do not do. Living a light worthy of the calling of Christ is about what you do for His glory. In light of all this, I cannot help but to ask myself, what is it going to take? What is it going to take to move me in such a way that I cannot help but to serve God by serving others? How many conferences do I have to attend, how many miracles do I have to see, how many church services and programs must I go through before the only thing I want to do is tell people about the God that saved my soul? How many?
There is nothing wrong with attending conferences or church camps. Actually, they can be a great tool to refocus on the prize that is Jesus Christ. For many, these events are life changing in that it was at a conference or church camp where they were saved or surrendered into full time ministry. But if we allow these events to be the backbone of our faith, then our faith will have no backbone. The truth is until we learn to practice the presence of God, as Brother Lawrence put it, we will never be consistent in our walk with Christ.
What is it going to take?
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