”Early is on time, on time is late, and late is death.” ~ Matt Murray (and US Military)
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There is a moment in time during a discipleship that makes me the most happy. It’s when a disciple begins to become a discipler of others.
In the midst of the conversation you can feel the magnitude of the moment. It’s like the many souls that were lying in the balance take a breath of relief. I imagine that all heaven stands on their feet to see the ripened follower begin to turn and bear fruit.
Passage: John 11:1-6
1 A man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany with his sisters, Mary and Martha. 2 This is the Mary who later poured the expensive perfume on the Lord’s feet and wiped them with her hair. Her brother, Lazarus, was sick. 3 So the two sisters sent a message to Jesus telling him, “Lord, your dear friend is very sick.”
4 But when Jesus heard about it he said, “Lazarus’s sickness will not end in death. No, it happened for the glory of God so that the Son of God will receive glory from this.” 5 So although Jesus loved Martha, Mary, and Lazarus, 6 he stayed where he was for the next two days.
Commentary:
Sometimes God does stuff that doesn’t make since to us.
Johnny Cash’s last project was this cover of a Nine Inch Nails song that had originated by a clearly depressed and confused kid in his twenties, Trent Reznor. Johnny’s wife died a year after this project and he die just a few months after that.
I love the redemptive quality to the song as well as the very real lyrics that somehow reaches the depth of the vanity of this life and the real work God does in us that should be our singular focus. I encourage you to listen and let the various components of the track cause you to pray.
“A good man draws a circle around himself and cares for those within – his woman, his children. Other men draw a larger circle and bring within their brothers and sisters. But some men have a great destiny. They must draw around themselves a circle that includes many, many more.” ~ From 10,000BC
There was a time when He was all I had. No wife, no friends, no air conditioning, no job. All I had was bills, sorrows, and broken relationships. In those times when I had nothing, He became my everything. I visit this place daily, and it breaks my heart in the best possible way.
Okay, so maybe you didn’t get the encounter with God that you desired. We’ll did God get the encounter with you that He desired? Believe it or not this part is your choice. Why not find that old worship album and a place to be alone with Him and give Him an encounter with you He will enjoy?
“Praying ‘about’ someone & praying ‘for’ them are, of course, two different things.”
~ Lisa Koons
