So for those of you who don't already know, I work at the Downtown Rescue Mission in Albertville... its pretty much a thrift store, but we have a homeless shelter in Huntsville...anyways. So at work today I get asked to clean the floors. This would be an easy task if the floor was vinyl, but no..its carpet. And under the shelves there is a build up of dust and things that have fell off and broken and rolled under the shelves and God knows what else!
So I approached this task reluctantly. And I'm not one to say that I "heard God Speak", but I did feel like it was one of those "mysterious ways" that God works. Anyways, as I am cleaning I was thinking to myself "This would be so much easier if they would have just kept it vacuumed from the beginning...it would be sooo much less work.
Then God started speaking to me about how our lives would be so much easier if we would just come to him and let him "vacuum and clean" our hearts. This hit me pretty hard. Then He continued to say that the church has took the same approach that earlier employees had taken....we (the church) didn't address some subjects and just slide them under the shelf so that when people come in we appear to have everything in order, but at closer inspection they find that things are really getting out of hand.
That got me really thinking....I mean how often does someone hear a sermon on lets say.....fornication. The word may occassionally pop up here and there, but the subject is rarely addressed. The church just "swept it under the rug" and now we have a whole other relm of things that come from that issue not being addressed: homosexuality, abortion, ect. I wonder if the church would have taken a more defined stand, not in hate, but in love if things would be somewhat different.
Now for those of you who are thinking I'm being judgemental... I'M NOT!! I'm just simply tired of seeing teens that struggle with the same sins that satan has been using for decades and when you go to a youth rally or service you hear "Bible Stories".
None of this might not make any since, but I believe with all my heart that God needs, and is, raising up some leaders that will tackel the tough issues that are attacking this generation and take an offensive stand on these issues....
Teens today face a lot...more and more each day.. its not just peer pressure any more folks. Its time that we, as the body of Christ, rise up a standard against the enemy and reach out to save a dying generation that is simply looking for one thing.....Love
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