Do Not Go Gently...

"Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you." - Matthew 20

How firm, how strong, how rooted is your faith? Some of you who read this blog have a faith that is strong, others a faith that is holding the line, and others a faith that is, well, dormant. A faith that is strong need only hold the line. A faith that is holding on need only persevere.  But a faith that is dormant is a faith in trouble. It is, by definition, alive at some level, but not growing.

A dormant faith is asleep. If this is your faith then know this: you must wake up. A faith that is asleep too long runs the very real risk of dying. Don't let that happen. Wake up. If not for yourself, then for those around you.

Right now in your community 1 out of 4 children is skipping lunch at school because their parents can't afford it. In the United States a rape is reported every 5 minutes. That's a scary number. Until you realize that only 16% of rapes are ever reported in the first place. Last night anywhere from 2-4 babies were born immaturely and are fighting this very moment for their little lives at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena. That's only one out of over 1300 NICU's in the country.

My point is this: there is hurting all around you and people you don't even know, whom you haven't even met yet, who need you. How can you be there for people you don't even know in circumstances you have no idea how to handle without faith? How? It simply isn't possible. Because those people need hope. They need love. They need you.

Do not go gently into that deep responsibility. Rush in. Respond. Reach out. Use the hurts the world has thrust upon you to help others overcome their hurts and realize that as you do God is pulling for your glory.