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 YOUR CALLING

When the US Army first encountered a concentration camp during WW2, they had no idea what they were seeing. The walking dead coming out of the huts, the piles of decaying bodies, the stench and the horror, the emptied eyes of the prisoners; it was more than they could comprehend or cope with. They had to do something to alleviate the devastation they were witnessing.

What they saw with their eyes is today the working reality of those who do not know God and His salvation through Jesus Christ. Spiritually, people are walking around emaciated, lifeless, emptied eyed living cadavers without God and without hope in the world. They may look amazingly successful, educated, articulate. Influential, healthy, beautiful, admired and “on top of the world.” But without a living and life-transforming relationship with God through Jesus Christ, they are still prisoners of war, an unseen war being waged against all humanity; anyone who still bears the image of God as the crown of His creation.

So how are followers of Jesus Christ to relate to these inmates of a spiritual Chełmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek or Auschwitz? Should those who can see and hear because God has given them eyes to see His salvation and ears to hear His Word that has healed them curse those who are still deaf or mock those still blinded to the Truth? Should the spiritually lame be scorned because they get from “here to there”? Can the leper make himself feel again when sin has destroyed his spiritual sensitivity? Are those possessed by spiritual darkness overpower the very things that enslave them?

Only God can save, deliver, heal, restore and make alive again one who is spiritually dead. People who are spiritually dead, their deadness is their “normal” and they have been deceived into thinking they have no need for God, His forgiveness and grace. So, what are the followers of Jesus Christ called to be? You are the liberation army of God. You are ambassadors for the King of kings, sharing, declaring the reconciliation God, Himself, has made possible through the Life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. You are called on, commanded by the Lord, Himself, to intercede for, agonize in prayer over those in your sphere of influence who are still enslaved by sin and death. You must cry out for their salvation, for their repentance and faith knowing that salvation is of the Lord alone. You must remember that once, you, too, were once deaf, blind, lame, leprous, held captive, dead in your own sin. There is no room for arrogance or pride for all you have received in Jesus’ Name has been God’s gift by Hs grace through His gift of grace.

Pray that, by the Power of the Holy Spirit that the works pf darkness that still hold them enthralled will be disrupted, dismantled, discouraged, dislodged, destroyed, demolished, destabilized, dispersed and dispensed with. Pray for their salvation and BE that living witness to what God has done in Christ Jesus and what He continues to do, restoring you to full humanity by His Life being lived in you now. You have been strategically placed to engage the lives of those around you, to intentionally build relationships with those who do know the Lord. Your life is meant to become a bridge over which Jesus Christ walks into their lives and then, on the arm of a trusted friend, they are brought by God’s grace into the Kingdom of God.


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