Be the Man!

Be the Man!

[My Offline Bible] Isaiah 6
8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

[My Offline Bible] Philippians 2
19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state. 20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state. 21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.

It's natural with people to complain about what others should do that they wouldn't do.

We expect others to love us, we expect others to meet our needs, we expect others to be trustworthy, we complain about the negative attitudes we receive from others....

We want the man to step into our lives and help us! When people don't pursue our own goals, we complain, when they don't give to us, we whine. When they don't fit-in into our mould we feel betrayed.

As followers we expect the leaders to be all in all. As leaders we expect the followers not to have a life outside of us. We always have expectations of others but never of ourselves!

But that won't serve any purpose in the world, until we start focusing on ourselves as those responsible!

That advert said, if I don't do it who will? We need a sense of responsibility towards the needs of the people around us....

God's looking for a man... and you are the man and you have to stand up and be the man!

Enough of complaining about someone not feeding the poor....feed them, even if one at a time!

Enough of complaining about having no one to help you; you step out to help someone!

Enough of complaining about the rot in society, don't add to it and roll up your sleeves and clean up what you can!

You said man can't be trusted and I agree...but you are the man! Can you be trusted?

You are the man!

Who shall go for us? That's the cry of the Spirit! Who shall care in a world that doesn't care?

Who shall we send to be the answer to the cry of the young boy who can't enrol in school for lack of funds?

Who shall we send to provide a meal to the family starving out of economic depression?

Who shall we send to provide little healthcare for those who can't afford the cost of drugs?

Who shall we send to help out with those about to be thrown out of the accommodation they have?

Who shall we send to help bear that burden too heavy for the young orphan to carry?

Who shall we send to that old man or woman whose children won't care?

Who shall we send to encourage the broken hearted? Who shall we send to bring back the straying hearts to God? Who shall we send to transform the decaying society and help the people maximise their potentials? Who?

That's the cry in the heavenlies!

But you and I are the answer to that cry!

Every need is the expression of that cry...and every time we turn a deaf ear when we can do even a little, we join the selfish lot, who seek not the things of Christ but the things of self!

Some of us always know what the poor should do that they aren't doing?

We can easily identify the lazy, we can identify the unwise and could tell how that brought about their predicaments. And so we believe it isn't our duty to help anyone since they brought such upon themselves!

The truth is, whatever causes the poverty of the poor isn't ours to tell, our responsibility is to find a way out for them to get out of their needs!

We can identify the lazy, the fool and the bad choices that made the indigent and the insolvent what they are but we can't identify the selfishness in us! We can't identify the error in our thinking and the vacuum that only us should fill! Selfishness protects itself to every extent...there's always a reason not to share!

Be the man!

Don't only ask, where is the man? Let your cry be, Here I am, Lord send me!

Jesus Christ gave Himself to us not just to forgive our sins and keep us from sinning but also to help us actively pursue doing what's good and right!

[My Offline Bible] Titus 2
14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

Our religion is nothing if we aren't offering ourselves as living sacrifices on God's behalf to meet the needs around us...

It's another Sunday, don't just go to church with enough to give offerings and tithes...package something for someone who is in need... take a little extra meal along, it may be all that the Lord would need to feed thousands, and make it a habit henceforth!

Be the man! Be the answer to someone's prayer! Break the chain of selfishness, be there for someone else's success: leader, you too go out and be servant to someone to succeed, it's not just about you succeeding by what other people contribute! Servant, go out there and help a leader succeed...not just because you are paid to do so....

Senior pastor, find another ministry to help too...it's not meant to be a rat race!

It isn't about us alone...let others too eat of the fruits of our branches! No tree eats it's own fruits, every tree that does that remains barren!

Be the man...someone has been waiting for!

Let your answer be...

Here I am! Send me!
Good morning and have a lovely week!

Let's Pray...
Father in heaven, we give you praise for your loving kindness and faithfulness, we appreciate you for who you are, you are love who won't change. Thanks for sharing your nature with us, thanks for connecting us with your Spirit. Thanks for planting us in yourself to suck from your sap so that we can bring forth good fruit for the world to feed on. Let our praise be acceptable to you in Jesus name.

We come to you today, in total surrender to you and your truth, we come to offer our lives as living sacrifices to answer your demand to send someone to meet the world's needs, and to be the vessel to bring your answers to people in need...

We cry, Here we are! Send us!

Help us to identify the needs around us, keep our hearts tuned to hear the fainting cry of the needy behind the facades.
Help us never again to turn away our ears to the cries and never to blind our eyes and hearts to the people who need us.
Equip us with what we'll need to do your will, help us identify what we already have to share. Give us grace to be humble enough to care and to show it.
Help us to be the man to someone else without demanding of them in return....

We believe yours is the omnipotence and wisdom and we know you'll be there for us as we step out to do this from now on in Jesus mighty name!