God's Time

God's time. A term we all like to use now and then to let others know that we are being patient with our wants or needs or encouraging others until he is ready to fulfill them according to His plan.



Very commendable and yes, whether we truly feel it in our hearts or not is beside the point. I was instead going to take this in a whole different direction.



Let's assume that we are members of a Motorcycle Ministry and we are at a Rally to share our faith, hand out tracts, so on & so forth. Or let's assume we are doing VBS, or on a mission trip with our church and we are ministering to kids and families. Now let's assume our church is having an outreach project and inviting people from all over the neighborhood, town, or county to reach the unchurched or barely churched.

We are gung ho to get there and do the Lords work, we are on a mission and there is nothing going to get in our way. OOOOOPS! you guessed it .. yes .. absolutely.... YOU GOT IN THE WAY!!!!!



Have you ever been on an outreach project, found yourself chatting with one of your team buddies and during your conversation about " how we're gonna set this place to rolling" you kind of glance around and see a lot of unfamiliar faces around? yet you keep your conversation going with your buddy, or at that bike rally you've got a handful of tracts and coins but you never seem to find anyone to give them to, yet you did find a couple of good deals on chaps, or a booth that's selling the coolest rally t-shirts? Ever been on a VBS team and seen a strange kid looking kind of lost, not knowing where to go or what to do, and you quietly watch them pass by as you continue to look past them to your next duty?



Yes, I've been guilty a few times.. those are the times I remember, not counting the times I did it and was too busy with my own world to pay attention to my mission. So There.. I admitted it...can you? will you? have you?



That's what brings us to the title... God's time

When we are in a situation as this we are on God's time, not ours....His mission, for His work, to be obedient to His will according to His word.

At a rally or outreach event we are there for Him and we should keep our minds to our task.
If you see a person you don't know at an out reach event, it doesn't matter that they are friends of brother Bill or sister Cindy, we don't know them but they need to know us.

That little confused kid could be the next Billy Graham, or an angel among us checking our Christian resolve. I have pondered this a lot. Believe it or not, I've even lost sleep over this issue.

Thinking back, one of the reasons I'm in the church I attend now or at all is because the firm handshake and the reaching out of those whom I met in that church. On the street or on out reach projects is where the metal meets the road, where we need to rely on the Holy Spirit, pull out all the stops, get up all the courage we can muster and simply say "Hi".

There is some statistic out there that states that 1 in 50 church goers shares their faith once in a year. I don't remember the actual number but it is incredibly scary.
If we were to truly put on the whole armor of God, then it would be 1 in 50 who don't share.

Let's say Hi, be friendly, leave good tips, share who we are, build some relationships, and maybe, just maybe, this country would change, one heart at a time.