Memorial Day is
the epitome of risk. Men and women since
the beginning of our country have given their lives to purchase our freedom as
individuals within the United States of America. This Memorial Day is not about veterans who
are still alive, although I am grateful for each of them, but this day is to
remember who lost their lives fighting in our place.
This is a great nation even in the
midst of struggle, economic strain and rampant decay, physical and
spiritual. People continue to see God do
miracle in and around their lives their, and I believe and challenge us today
to take risks, to live by faith and to trust God along the journey.
Our church’s 2015 theme of
LIMITLESS. Our God is limitless, and His
intentions, kindness and plan for each of us really is LIMITLESS.
Yet Life is full of limits or
limitations. In fact around us there are
people who have tried to help us stay in one place. They do that the way they think is best or
for our good. Yet God has more plans for
us. His desire is for us to grow, get
stronger and to move forward.
He who believes in Me, as the Scripture
said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’”
Moving forward often means taking
risk. Let me give you a warning and tell
you that God desires more, more for you and more from you. Stop holding the fort or being stagnant or
waiting to another day. Start setting
your sights higher and move on!
It is time to press on and not hold
back. Far too many people are looking
for the easy way out. They are settling
for just surviving. You are more than
just getting by. God made you to
succeed. He made each of us in His
image.
Don’t settle. Strive for more. Our God really is limitless. He is able to do more. He is able to create and to sustain. He is ready to give us more and take us to
places we cannot go on our own. His
desire is for us to become like Christ, more every day.
For those whom He foreknew, He also
predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be
the firstborn among many brethren;
He made you and me to become like
Jesus. The way we live and our focus
should make us, and others, more and more like Jesus. But have we chosen to limit our future or to
tie God’s hands? It is time to stop
allowing anyone to limit our future.
This reminds me of the story of Benaiah
comes to mind. We know very little about
Him, but he became one of David’s mighty men.
He was one of David’s bodyguards.
Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel,
who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in
the middle of a pit on a snowy day.
Benaiah took risks that paid
off. He lived by faith. I want to challenge you and I to live by a
different code, to strive to a higher place and to grow even more with Jesus. He risked his life, and we can do the same.
men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Are we those kind of people? God has more for you and for me. Very much like the people of Hebrews 11 in
the “faith hall of fame”. The world
needs people who take risk, who live by faith and who go to the next level.
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