Crawling

WoW! We have just gotten back from an amazing week of leading worship.

We were leading worship for a FCA camp in St Simons, GA and God showed up! There is nothing like hundreds of people shouting praises to GOD together with hands raised. To say the least, I had chills nonstop!  I want to thank everyone who was there for making our experience so wonderful. Glory to God!

As most of you know, David and I have a little girl who is nine months old, and is the joy of our lives. She started crawling this past week at camp, and has a peculiar way of doing it.  Her right leg is in the correct form for crawling, but her left leg is in a straight position. In other words, it looks like she is half crawling and half ready to stand up and take off walking.

We have laughed at this “creative” way of crawling, but really we can be the same way in the way we live for Christ. Half up, but still down.  We go to things, like camps, conferences,etc. and get fired up, ready to take on Hell with a water pistol.

We are strengthened by the brothers and sisters around us, and in the process move from “sitting up” to “crawling”. We make a million promises to God that we are ready to “STAND for HIM” the second we get home.

Then we get home and we get back into the swing of everyday things and we are stuck crawling. Stuck half up, but still down. We have been equipped and challenged with the truth, but we get busy and do not follow through on our promise to God. Church, I challenge you, ARISE, ARISE! If God is for us, what can stand against us?( Romans 8:31b).

Let’s not be ok in a half up state, let’s rise up and walk in the power of Jesus Christ! After all Jesus said himself in Matthew 12:30,”He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.”  We have to be good stewards of the truth God gives us so that we can stand up, and be a light to our dying world.

God please help us to stand up, and grow in Your truth.

If we are honest with ourselves, a lot of us are stuck “crawling”. We have made commitments to God, but have not followed through on them. We are stuck in the middle of the process of growing as a Christian. What are some ways that you remind yourself to follow through on your commitments to God?

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