Being a Block.

From: Grant

Recently my beautiful fiance and I were reading together in Ephesians. We read a passage that I had read many times but this time it had a new meaning to me. Ephesians 2:19 & 20 reads:  “Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God. And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone.”

When we read this it smacked me like a pallet of bricks. The church is built upon great Christians (of course the strong and weak alike are all built upon Christ and without Him would have nothing); those that stood out, that went the extra distance for Jesus, that have forsaken everything for Him. The foundation of the modern day Church is built, thanks to Christ, upon the apostles and prophets of old. This is how I want to be. I fall way short of a Paul or Enoch but what a great goal! What an awesome oppurtunity to serve Christ like this. When we are reigning in the millennium with Christ, ruling with him, will the children and adults alike open the books of old and read our names of how we strived to serve Christ in a miraculous way? How great Kristen’s faith was and how it was accounted unto her for righteousness or How Grant slew 1,000 demons with the words of God. Or maybe How Melody was bold enough to lead thousands to Christ in the slums of Iran.

What will be written of you centuries from now? Will there be nothing? Will you slide into Gods kingdom by receiving Christ as your Lord and Savior but then STOP and go no further? Will you gain no crowns to cast at the feet of our Marvelous Savior? Will you hide? Will your name be numbered among the countless others that never obeyed Christ? Or will you be named among the greats? Among Abraham, Peter, Noah and the few others that decided to live a selfless, Christfilled life?

I pray that the Lord will give anyone who has this desire, as well as myself, the boldness and ability to live this type of life. Maybe it wont happen overnight for you but can’t we take it a step at a time, starting with being obedient to what God you to do right now?