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this is the way, run in it
I absolutely love the way God anchors His word in time and history. God knows each one of us by name, by our father and mother's names, when we live, where we live, how we live.
Here's the catalyst for John the Baptist's ministry (ministry = God's task/calling/job for his life). from Luke Chapter 3, verses 1-2, "Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene, in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness." God spoke to John the Baptist while he was waiting and training in the wilderness, and He activated him by speaking a word to him. John's response = obedience (submission to God in action). The very next verse says he came out of the wilderness into the area around the Jordan and began preaching about how people could be forgiven for their sins and be baptized. What if God were writing your's or my story? What would it say? What if it began like this, "In the year of two thousand and seventeen A.D., during the first 100 days of President Trump's presidency in the USA, during the first year of Theresa May's role as Prime Minister of the U.K. when Brexit is being played out, during a time when North Korea's military muscles are being flexed, and during the rise and reign of terror by ISIS and other extreme terrorist groups, God called ..... (your name or my name here), son or daughter of ...(parent's names), to do... What would God say to you or to me? What is our role for which we were born for this day and time? It's true! God has created us, not only to know Him, to be loved by Him and love Him back, but to be working for His kingdom, His great big plan for this whole world. And little old you and me actually have a role in it. Yes, it may be small, or it may be big, but God made us each for a reason and planted us in a place to be obedient. Are we listening? Are we ready to respond?
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