As a child everyday had enough hours and every school year seemed to last 3 years! Now as I approach 40 I look up from my computer most days to see half the day gone. The day seems to go 8, 11, 2, 5, 8 done! Days seem faster, years seem shorter, and I realize that dreams must move from ideas to reality or the opportunities to make a real different are going to be gone. I was in M-Class last night and we were covering the Core Competency of Eternal Purpose, which states that I believe God has an eternal purpose for my life. It reminds me that everyone of us has a limited window to make an eternal difference. God has called all Christ-followers to an eternal purpose larger than each of our lives.
However, passion is not going to be enough to drive us to know and fulfill God's eternal purpose for our lives. Passion of purpose is often interrupted by pleasure and our ability to be distracted by momentary pursuits of pleasure. We loss more opportunities to make a difference believing we have time to push purpose back for the more immediate desire of pleasure. I'm discovering we live in a time where we can give our whole life to the momentary pursuits of pleasure and one day look up and discover our opportunities are behind us. If pleasure is not your distraction then fear just might be. I'm so afraid that so many people have been burned by other parts of the bride of Christ that when you do decide to dream and pursue a part of your eternal purpose that they are waiting to derail your passion. Pride to be in the know, selfishness for it not being your idea, or flat out anger from inside the bride of Christ does more damage to derailing eternal purpose than the world could ever do.
Every Christ-follower need to dream dreams and pursue eternal purpose and the church need to stop getting in the way!!! Church leaders we must get back to equipping the saints to do the work of the church, what work, the work they were designed to do, the work that is created when their souls are freed to dream! I want every member of NRC freed to pursue what they were designed to do while it is still day!
