"Jesus wants all of our lives all of the time. He wants to fill every place with His presence through his people. Every person in every place doing everything to glorify God. Just as when Jesus called his first disciples to follow him, when he calls people to be his disciples today, he intends it to be an all-of-life kind of thing that affects everything."
Saturate, Jeff Vanderstelt
I think we take these things to lightly. You somehow cheapened words like all, every, and everything and don't take them in for all that it really is. They are such powerful words! You want all of me from the moment I wake to the moment I go to sleep, EVERY SINGLE DAY. Not just on missions trips, not just on Sundays, not just what he's doing exciting things in my life, but in moment of every day. In the normal, in the mundane, in the routine and the small stuff. Jesus wants our soul, our mind, our spirit, our attitude, our entire being to be about Him!
People will say, "You still have to be rational, you have to be realistic. Don't be stupid, you still have to be smart."
But being "smart" is being careful, being safe. They want you to have a back-up plan. But this means that there is fear that God will not work everything together. Fear is the absence of trusting God. We can't be careful, realistic, or rational. We need to be completely abandoned. Crazy in the eyes of the world.
“If we are “out of our mind,” as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.” (2 Corinthians 5:13)
Being smart is being prayerful and constantly in touch with God. When God asks us to follow him, it's gonna look crazy in the eyes of the world. It's not going to make sense, it's not going to be practical, but when he calls us to make that step all we need to do is go. Wherever he calls, even if it seems irrational, it's where He is. And where He leads, He provides!
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