How many of you have come a across a pond that is stagnate. Truly disgusting! You see the film laying across the water and the mosquitoes hovering just above the top. There is a stench that lingers in your nose and doesn't cease until you are yards away. When you approach a stagnate pool of water you know that death lingers there. Sometimes it is so bad that you can see how animals and fish have been affected from the lack of movement in the water. Usually you can see fish floating at the surface of the water...and others can be found by the perimeter. Being stagnate clearly breeds death.
This brings me to the complacency that many of us walk in our relationship with the Father. We are so content to arrive at church on Sunday, sit and listen and then check out until the next service presents itself the following week. Believe me, I am not here to bash on peoples attendance record, but I am here only to say that it is time that our lives revolve around our personal call.
You can almost smell the stench of a stagnate person. When they talk their verbiage is correct and their surroundings seem Godly, but the very breath of God doesn't exist in their heart. Their words produce nothing!
I have found that even in the beauty of the Forrest(church) where the pond(people) exist, we can find ourselves stagnate. Church goers, committed Christians, men of God, and women of God must be on the look out for this to creep into their lives. We can be so consumed by the daily tasks of life and find ourselves wanting more. When was the last time you stopped in your pursuit of Christianity and spent time with God! You can usher, greet, serve the elderly, feed the homeless, run back and forth to school events, and find yourself complacent. God is not looking for His relationship with you in all that you do, He wants to spend some time with you! I believe when we are intimate with God we resist complacency in our lives. Truly spending time with God outside of an event or project produces an intimacy that can not be achieved any other way.
A stagnate pond is calling out to be stirred. The moment there is movement the life that is underneath that water, moves to the surface and all of a sudden the pond is transformed. Movement keeps us from becoming stagnate, but the movement must be in God.
It's time we allow our waters to be stirred!
I think that means more to me than I can even wrap my heart and soul around. It's like parts in the bible or in books you read that feel some sort of home base, but as it stirs and stirs it begins to flourish in the way it was made to and in you that checks that homebase so much more. THANK YOU FOR BEING YOU AND SPEAKING OUT THE PURITY OF HIS TRUTH THROUGH YOUR WORDS!!!
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