I was listening to the church sermon today. It was excellent and a challenge. It just confirms that focusing inward is what needs to happen for the next two years and beyond. Mark Anderson, YWAM, spoke today. He was talking about how we're coming to the point where all the nations and peoples of the earth are going to be reached. Thus the great commission will be fulfilled.
Anderson talked about how we're seeing Hinduism and Buddhism are diminishing. Islam is still there but taking on another route, Humanism. It's in America! He says this is the Babylon that is sneaking up behind us and we don't even know. It's taking over America. Humanism is defined as, "Philosophy. a variety of ethical theory and practice that emphasizes reason, scientific inquiry, and human fulfillment in the natural world and often rejects the importance of belief in God."
This is scary. I have fallen into this belief. I have fallen away from laying down my life and taking up my cross every day. It's all about me. I'm done with this, "All about me," stuff. Whatever happened to, "It's all about Christ?" Has it slipped through our fingers unnoticed? I mean, I thought that's what I was focusing on but it wasn't. I was focusing on how I can fit Jesus into my plans and my future not how do I fit into Jesus' plans and Jesus' future.
What ever happened to Matthew 16:25, "For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it."? I don't find this anywhere in my life. It's time for a change in perspective. It's time for me to stop working through the five senses and starting working through the inner man who is in touch with God. My inner man has become numb.
Inward is the new word for the next two years. It's gonna be hard but worth it.
