Let's Get Busy

Have you noticed that no matter how fast you work you don't get everything done until its time to start all over again?

While you and I are busy with our own lives, everything is progressing around us. Christianity is in a violent and aggressive war with our anti-Christian culture. The battle is raging. So what are you and I to do?

Jesus covered that a long time ago when He said, "But seek for (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom, and His righteousness [His way of doing and being right], and then all these things taken together will be given you besides" (Matthew 6:33 AMP). 

Then He says, because He knows our thoughts, "So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble" (vs. 34).

Okay, so you and I need to care, we need to "aim at and strive after" the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. We need to consciously and aggressively take back the ground the enemy has stolen from us. We need to have as our goal the Kingdom of God on earth . . . His will, His way of doing things. We need to be concerned about what He is concerned about.

First we must start with the Instruction Book . . . His Word (doesn't that make sense?) That's where we learn what to do and get the proper perspective we need. That's where we find out what's wrong with our lives and how to get "fixed"so we can care about God's Kingdom.

If we truly believe in, and rely upon the Lord Jesus Christ we already have the supernatural faith we need to submit to Christ's word and work. In other words, we have what we need to do His Kingdom work, no matter how busy we are.

Being interested in God's Kingdom involves the concentration of our energies in reaching God's goals in our lives. It means we need to be eager to believe, obey and experience God's promises, as well as being concerned that God's righteousness be established and expanded in the whole world (Acts 1:8).  In short, our faith should produce diligence, NOT laziness, unconcern, selfishness, and complacency. 

PERSONALLY SPEAKING . . . HOW DO MY HUSBAND AND I GO ABOUT DOING OUR PART IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD? 

First, it begins with a hunger and thirst for God's word and His way of doing things. Then it reaches out to others. There are many people who need God's word. Many people are hurting and don't know where to turn for help. Some Christian's who know God's word, have decided that the Bible is not enough to sufficiently take care of their problems, which makes their situations more desperate. They need encouragement to get back on the right track of trusting again.

Besides sharing God's word, Harrison and I have couples over to our home for meals and times of fellowship. [You might say you aren't good at it or you can't cook, or any number of things . . . that is no excuse!!!! We aren't good at it either, but we do it].

We give books and Christian tapes to friends and people we meet. We pray for those God brings into our lives. We take their burdens to God as if they were our own. We listen and spend time with others. We contact those who are hurting. We look for ways to minister and wait upon God to show us the needs of other people.

This website is an outreach for the Kingdom of God. In 2009 God brought over 5,348 visitors to this site. My book, FINDING HOPE, is another outreach for God's Kingdom.

What about you? God has given you gifts and abilities that He has not given me. He brings you in contact with people all the time who are hurting and need the good news of the gospel. All of us are not meant to do the same things. Where ever you are, God's plan for you is that you be concerned for His Kingdom. He wants you to seek His Kingdom FIRST and be obedient to what He has for you to do. THEN HE WILL TAKE CARE OF ALL THE OTHER THINGS.

You probably already know this about the Kingdom of God, but here's a quick review:

Leaven (yeast) transforms, it spreads. It goes everywhere. Once leaven has been put into dough, its leavening process goes on inevitably until the whole dough is completely leavened. The leaven, depicting God's word and His Kingdom, starts small in our lives but constantly, victoriously and completely permeates everything, not only our lives, but our culture as well.

Whether you and I even care about or seek God's Kingdom or not, God causes this leavening process to still go on all over the world. The Bible teaches that nothing can stop the HUGE outward and inward victorious growth of God's Kingdom here and now in calendar time. God's Kingdom is constantly marching on in the power of the Holy Spirit, gradually bringing about a triumph of true Christianity, before the return of the Lord Jesus. 

This is being done through the power of the Holy Spirit in the lives of Christians and in the work of the church in the preaching of the gospel. It will continue until the whole world is evangelized. One day the knowledge of God will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea (Isaiah 11:9).

The leaven of the Kingdom is bringing us, and this world, from a small mustard seed size to a perfectly huge and blossoming Kingdom.  It is overtaking our anti-Christian culture a little at a time.

So, while we're busy with this and that and things are looking bad now, the overall, ultimate effect is that light is constantly overcoming and permeating the darkness. (It only looks like evil is prevailing).

God is sovereign over all His and our affairs. He HAS NOT and IS NOT going to turn this world over to the devil or to wicked men to carry out their evil devices and fulfill their selfish ambitions. God is still in charge here!

Right before Jesus ascended into heaven He said, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations . . . and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age" (Matthew 28:18-20). His leaven is working in all of us and in all situations bringing everything to a glorious future.

So Christian, let's you and me get busy being a part of the great expansion of God's Kingdom. Let's get busy aiming at and striving after advancing the Kingdom of God. Let's concentrate on what God wants, and I believe if we'll do that, we will get more accomplished and be happier too! What do you think?

And as you are going about your day, remember that the Kingdom of God is triumphing every minute over all opposition. God is triumphing in that He is bringing His judgment upon the world in a way that pleases and honors Him. He is having the last and final word. 

At this same time, we children of God who have a personal relationship with Him, as opposed to only a relationship of familiarity, are being DEARLY cared for by our Savior. Christ is always with His church, revealing to us, by His word and Spirit, the will of God for our salvation; making continual intercession for us; and subduing us to Himself, ruling and defending us, and restraining and conquering all His and our enemies (Shorter Catechism Q&A 24-26).

This truth excites us and gives us hope! There is no reason for you to feel depressed or pessimistic when you think about the Kingdom of God.