"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. What do workers gain from their toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. {He has made everything beautiful in its time.} He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it."
-Ecclesiastes 3:1-14

Monday, January 9, 2012

I Live Like Denmark, When There is a War Raging Around Me!

In a wartime lifestyle you always ask yourself, How can my life count to advance the cause of Christ?

I feel like lately the Lord has thrown me clear passes for evangelism opportunities...and I might have looked at the ball, I might even have caught it, but I have not run with it.

[Apathy]. [Fear of man]. [Timidity].

Lately, I have seen these sinful attitudes cropping up in my life. Which is all the more humbling after coming off of a semester in Israel...with my brain fuller and my heart more stirred then ever before.

I too often err on the side of, "Now isn't the right time," or "I don't have the right words to say," or "I am lifestyle evangelizing!" but this is a cop-out (lifestyle evangelism doesn't save anyone, God's Word does!) and it is relying on my own strength instead of the Lord's.

I was really thankful for Andrew Curry's sermon in Exodus this past Sunday in Crossroads about how the Lord uses ordinary, weak, broken vessels to accomplish His purposes...it's just about [stepping out in faith and trusting in Him.]

I have realized that a lot of times, my lack of evangelizing is directly related to my peace-time mentality.

I forget that I am at war..."No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier." -2 Timothy 2:4

I forget that people are perishing all around me. "What is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away." -James 4:14

I forget that I posses the only Remedy that can save the wounded and dying: Jesus Christ. "For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life. And who is equal to such a task?" -2 Corinthians 2:15-16

[I am complacent. Comfortable. Distracted.]



I too often live like Denmark, when there is a war raging all around me...and a war with bigger stakes then World War II.

Praying that the Lord will help this Christian soldier to awaken to the realities of heaven and hell, the Gospel, and our dying world's need for Him...and that I would then live with a wartime mentality and seize every opportunity He sends my way!

"But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have..." -1 Peter 3:15

"I'm going to keep my life as wartime as I can in order to maximize my effect for showing Jesus as valuable..." -John Piper
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  1. projector22January 10, 2012 at 11:56 AM

    I'm really enjoying your very gospel centered writing Mollie. Keep it up:)

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