Have you met that kind of Christian that talks big smack about how his generation’s faith is gonna change the world for Jesus… but somehow can’t even show up for work on time?
News flash: the chances of you turning the world upside down when you can’t even start your day without hitting snooze twelve times are slim and none. And Slim’s out of town.
It’s not your energy, your enthusiasm, or your social media following that will make or break your usefulness to God building His Kingdom here onterra firma.
Nope. It’s something far more rare and hard to come by these days in the United States of Liberal Acrimony — character.
Too often, the average Christian these days barely meets the threshold of being trustworthy enough to water the neighbours plants, and maybe even feed his cat if you’re really top grade.
Hardly the kind of people like so many in the Early Church and Old Testament that people have been naming their kids after for millennia. So what happened? Better yet, how do we fix it?
To answer that question in a way that will BBQ every excuse we would throw at it, let’s look at some examples of early biblical believers in a far more wretched, godless and hostile culture than the one we find ourselves in.
We’re going all the way back to Daniel and his buddies.
Doug’s latest book is’Biblical Badasses: The Old Men‘
When God gets geared up to bring about a reformation, he green-lights the dream machine in us old farts. Yep, the prophet Joel says that when God‘s afoot flipping a nation from filth to faith, he doesn’t just use the young ‘uns, but he gives fresh dreams to the old dudes. Indeed, it is not just young peeps. It’s young and old. It’s a holy mashup of the green behind the ears and grey within the ears. That’s right, old man … God’s not finished with you yet. The ten men spotlighted in this spicy tome were probably way older than you when God lit their world of fire with fresh vision and purpose. If you’re hungry for more of God, then you should expect the Lord to do the same with you.
Source: Clash Daily
