What’s God doing?
A recent Evangelical Alliance campaign asked ‘What’s God doing in your area?’.
Almost daily I hear people saying ‘God is on the move!’, or ‘God is really doing something around here!’ or ‘God is up to something big!’ Day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year it’s the same story – ‘God is about to do something big!’ But no-one seems to stop and wonder why He hasn’t done it yet.
Well here’s a suggestion as to why He hasn’t done it yet – He’s waiting for us to get off our backsides and do something first! Yes, God is undoubtedly on the verge of doing something about the catastrophic mess we have made of things, but He will remain on the verge of doing it until we haul ourselves off our fat backsides and get with the story. Never mind asking what God is doing where we live, let’s bring it back a step – what are we doing where we live?
The Kingdom of God is not a spectator venue or a passive activity, it is a full on participatory experience – it is a living, breathing, dynamic environment that requires us to engage with it, not watch from a distance. There are people where I live who have been saying for decades that God is about to do something, and still they wait. They wait, they wait and they wait. And still they say that God is about to do something.
How long do we wait before we actually wake up and realise that something is missing? To these perpetual waiters I say this – ask yourself why He hasn’t done it yet. He is waiting for us to catch up with Him and then start moving forward. He is waiting for us to start working together; pursuing the real presence of the Kingdom instead of growing our own little Empires. And He will out-wait us all if He has to.
To pass the time while they wait, people talk of the days that were – around here they talk of the days when Richard Baxter took Kidderminster by the scruff of the neck and opened it’s gates to the presence of the Kingdom; the days when Kidderminster was called a little colony of Heaven. Well here is a news-flash – Baxter dreamed of what could be, and he knew what should be, and he did something about it. He stepped up to the crease, bat in hand, and faced the ball. And as he stood there waiting for the delivery, God stepped up and played the shot, hitting the ball out of the stadium, taking Baxter’s willingness to chase down what should be and turning it into reality.
What’s God doing where you live? But, what are you doing where you live? You can’t play a shot from in the pavillion, so if you want to see the world changed, if you believe God is going to do something big, you better get your pads on, pick up your bat and get ready to take the field, because if He is going to change your bit of the world, He is going to want you to take the field first. He wants you standing there right next to Him. Don’t leave it to others, because it may just be that God is actually waiting for you to step up to the crease and face the ball. Don’t miss your chance, don’t be a spectator, rise to the challenge and step into the life that awaits you.
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2 Responses to “What’s God doing?”
HERE HERE, or is it HEAR HEAR!!! I am a yank ya know. The term God is about to do something is a constant truth as long as we don’t so anything at all. Since we are his hands and feet he will always be ABOUT to do something while we wonder what we should do, and not DO IT!!
Oh yes!
Steve