Grow Up!

   Our Father’s primary goal is to make many sons and daughters into the matured selfless image of His Son Jesus; endued with power, controlled by love, enriched with wisdom, creativity and skill, who bear fruit after their own kind.  He is more desirous to bring revival than we are prepared to receive it.   Revival tarries not because the Lord is fickle and doesn’t know what He wants to do, but because we are immature, unprepared and ill equipped.  God is wise enough not to pour new wine into an old wineskin.  If we only look to specialist to do spiritual service for us, hiring them to minister on our behalf, how will we ever become equipped ourselves?  Putting in our tithe, warming a pew and listening to the weekly feel good sermon is hardly the sum of our Christian life.  Unfortunately, doing these things makes us feel we've done our duty and absolves us from further obligation.  Yet, we are commanded to love our neighbors, as doers of the Word and not hearers only and grow up unto Him who is Head; Christ Jesus. You must become a disciple in order to make disciples. We must all rise up to fulfill our priestly duty, study to show ourselves approved as workmen who need not be ashamed and walk in the Spirit, daily communing in intimate fellowship with our Father.  Then, shall we be strengthened with His might in our inner man and He shall sustain us as His nation of priests.  We shall not need clergy any longer!   For we shall all be God’s special ones, from the least to the greatest. God's peculiar people, His royal priesthood, His holy nation who show forth the praises of Him, who called us out of our weakness into His strength, out of our flesh into His Spirit, out of darkness to manifest His glorious light!