Before I say anything, I want to share an excerpt from Bill Bright and Ted Dekker's book, Blessed Child.

"'And some of you who call yourslef Christians need to learn how to walk in the kingdom of God, not just sleep there,' Caleb said. 'Dadda told me that just because you are born into a palace doesn't mean that you know how to rule. You are children who are blind to the power of God's Spirit. I think you might still be babies in the place. Maybe you are still playing with mud pies.'"

Think about that for a minute. How many of us were born into to the kingdom of God just to immediately go to sleep? There's no denying we're there, but it's kinda like being in a spiritual coma. Sure we're alive, but we have no interaction with the world around us. Shouldn't Christians be walking in power? I'm not even talking signs and wonders here, by the way. Christians should have the amazing power to heal the human heart. We should be putting psychologists out of business. There are millions of people walking around dying on the inside. And do we even take time to notice? What separates those who know Christ from those who don't? Hopefully it's a little more than where we go when we die. It's not that hard, really. Pay attention to people. Take enough time to step out of your own world and into someone else's. We're supposed to love our neighbours as ourselves. How do we manage that without doing as much as talking to our neighbors? How can we love anyone when we don't pay enough attention to notice that the person we just asked to take our picture is crying? Or if we did notice, but were to afraid totalk to the person about it. Is this what the church is supposed to be? Are we supposed to be the inverted, uncaring, "you're all going to hell" church? I don't think so. God is love. God loves us. God commands us to love others. Period.

Hang Loose,
Moses