It’s a great question everyone will have to answer, no exceptions and no excuses. Today, I’m simply suggesting you answer the question honestly within yourself while you still have time to change your answer and go for it! You see, the only correct answer is that you are here (on this earth) to “Make a Difference” for the kingdom or the cause of Jesus Christ! This leads naturally to another great question. Have you or are you making a difference? God of the universe has called YOU, to be a part of something that’s bigger than your self, family, job, career, home, hobbies, and interests… bigger than just your little neck of the woods! He is a BIG GOD and He expects you to be serving Him and His purposes and living each and every day for His Glory. It is the only way you can “Make a Difference” in this life, in this world; and, as if I have to remind you, you are running out of time!
As I write to you, I believe, as I am sure you are well aware, our church has just been “marking time” or standing still for too long. I am convinced that most, if not all, the reasoning behind our current state of affairs is because we have, all, to some extent or another, lost focus on why we are here and why the church of Jesus exists. Would you please commit to pray right now before reading any further? Pray that as we read together the following truth from our Great God’s Holy Word, that it will pierce our hearts. What does God want to say to you and our church through this passage? Ezekiel 37:1-14
The hand of the Lord was upon ME, and he brought ME out by the Spirit of the Lord and set ME in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led ME back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. He asked ME, "Can these bones live?"
I said, "O Sovereign Lord, you alone know." Then he said to me, "Prophesy to these bones and say to them, 'Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.'"
So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them. Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the breath; 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, that they may live.'" So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet — a vast army. Then he said to me: "These bones are the whole house of Israel (the church). They say, 'Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.' Therefore prophesy and say to them: 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says: O my people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord.'"
The bottom line is this, you are the church! Collectively, as the church, when our focus is off, individually and corporately, from serving the Kingdom of Jesus Christ; we are no more than DEAD dry bones. The real question is can the church live again? Answer, YES, if and only if we allow the Holy Spirit of God, His breath to well up inside of us and revive us again. It looks like getting on our knees and humbly repenting and asking His Spirit to fill us. Answer, YES, God can do it if and only if you will personally allow Him to be the LORD of your life. Then, that which was dead can live and not only live, but go from very dry, to a vast army by the grace and the power of our mighty God! IT’S WHY YOU ARE HERE!
