Now is the time!

Now is the time.  It’s the week believers especially remember Jesus’ death and resurrection.  Now is the time to soberly evaluate our lives.  Am I living for eternity? Am I engaged in gratitude for all God has done for me? Am I conscious of the love of God and the purchase price of my redemption? Now is the time.  This week the highest court in the land is considering a decision as huge in magnitude as Roe v Wade in 1973 - some say the biggest political threat to religious freedom in the short history of these United States of America.  Now is the time. I believe with all my heart that God is calling us to pray.  When Jesus saw the masses he felt compassion in the pit of his stomach. Then he healed and taught them. He didn’t place his hope in religious or political leaders but in God. We shouldn’t either! Here is how Matthew records it:

“Jesus was going through all the cities & villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease & every kind of sickness. Seeing the crowds, he felt compassion for them because they were distressed & dispirited like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore beg the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.’” Matt9:35-38

Share Christ’s compassion.  Speak truth and share the hope of the gospel & of God’s kingdom. Plead with God for more kingdom workers. Jesus did not see people through the eyes of politics. He saw them as worn out by the cares of this world needing a Savior! He calls for ambassadors of hope.

Now is the time to pray:

1.         Like the tax collector:  ‘God be merciful to me a sinner.’ Meditate on John 6
2.      That the Supreme Court will support marriage between 1 man and 1 woman to honor  
       creation’s God and for the good of our country.
3.      That the Lord of the harvest will draw hearts: (a) to turn to Jesus. (b) to be kingdom
      workers praying, watching and sharing the message of grace.

Happy Easter!