CIRCLE OF LIGHT MINISTRIES

Hebrews 10: 24,25 "And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching"

There is a frightening trend among believers today; so many have become disillusioned with 'the church' that they have increasingly turned back into the 'world', and as a result the enemy is merrily reclaiming some of our brothers and sisters when their lives instead should be devoted to our Savior.

 The trouble, I think, is the remaining devotion most people still have to the 'church building'. We get up a couple few times a week and go to 'church' where we sing a few songs, share a few 'testimonies', listen to one or maybe two people explain part of a few scriptures and in some cases spend another half-hour dancing around before they pray for us, collect our contributions, tell us to return next time and send us home. It is the rare one that you find which will leave you feeling truly 'Fed', and if you are not seeking God for yourself to go along with that you end up truly unsatisfied when all is said and done.

Many people do this all their lives, and never really get to Experience God

This is because is has become harder for some to realize that the Body of Christ Jesus is by no means a mere structure that can be walked into for a few hours before returning to the seclusion of one's home or neighborhood. This is not what God is about, and it is certainly not what Jesus taught. We have become so caught up in form and fashion, right and wrong, rite and ritual, and 'other people', other factions, other churches, other 'religions' and other faiths within our own...that we have set aside both Jesus and our fellow man. Christianity as it stands today -- an 'Institution' -- with rules and means and methods, has done more to turn people off than is possible for it to account for. This is not vague speculation. One need look no further than the neighborhoods full of Sunday Morning 'TV Worshippers', to gain an idea of numbers. And you need look no further than the news and web to see that the balance is slowly shifting. 

Yes, the Word of God certainly forecast that this would be the very situation as the end-times approached. And yet it does not lesson ourcommission - followers, believers, and lovers of Jesus - to get up and get out there and help as many get ready for His return as possible, not drive them further into the wilderness of the Lost!

 So what is the solution?  

Getting one's own eyesight straight first.

The Lord's oft-quoted direction about the splinter and the beam. First we must realize and admit that walking with Jesus is a personal mission. We must pray. We must study - research, meditate, fast, and strive for obedience. For only when we - that's you and I - are come completely under the direction and guidance of the Holy Spirit of God, which is granted us through grace because of Christ's loving sacrifice, can we begin to understand what it truly means to love other. Only when we have received that Spirit are we able to See in the Spirit, and so then recognize that Spirit in every other soul God has Created.

 When this is our goal, we do not become frustrated or impatient with others who do not, and perhaps can not live up to 'our' expectation. We realize we are utterly unable to send any one single person to heaven or hell, and so can not set goals for others. We realize that our singular goal in fellow-shipping with and ministering to others is to help them find their own attaching point to the Father, who will take it from there. He guides our words of encouragement, to assure they are what another needs at the time. He guides our acts of givng, to assure that we are doing so out of a need to share HIM, and not a wish for personal attention or validation of ourselves.

 When our acts are done in the Light - the Spirit of Jesus - there is no pride and therefore no pushing. There is not a 'want' for another to do as we 'want' and so we can want the best for them. There is patience, for the memory of where we have come from remains our reason for never wanting to see another go through those things. There is peace in oour own hearts, and so calm and gentleness in coaxing another, for we are able to keep in mind how God has shown us such great forbearance.

And above all, there is an inability to keep Jesus to oneself, for the joy and freedom of the soul simply fills you up, leaving no room for sadness or doubt or worry about what you'll wear next Sunday or who'll notice You'll be able to focus on God and receiving all that you can of His wisdom and grace and mercy and love.

James 4:10 "Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up."

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