The reason for the "question mark" at the end of the title, verses a period or exclamation mark, is to force me the writer and you the reader to answer this poignant question. When do we settle in with absolute certainty, that "it is in fact, time to get down to business!"? The short answer for me is "right now!"
As I take a survey of my life, I realize that I have had some incredibly BIG dreams. I have pondered over some amazing ideas, without ever embarking on them. How many unclaimed blessings will we see in heaven that could have been ours, yet we did not dare to believe? My challenge to anyone listening (or reading) is, dare to dream, but furthermore, dare to believe!
Belief in something constitutes a change of direction in one's action. For example, if I dream of a great ministry endeavor, but do not believe God can and will perform it, I will simply remain in a place of idle fantasy. BUT, in contrast, if I believe God for such a manifestation of ministry greatness, I will begin to take steps toward such a dream! Will you dare to get serious with your way of thinking...I will!
God has taken me to a specific passage in Philippians time and again. In chapter 1, verse 6, the Apostle Paul writes, "Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you, will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ". In short, anything "in me" that is good has been placed there by God (Phil. 2:13) and if He placed it there, and He will "perform it", what's the hold up?
It is time to get serious! Serious with expecting God to do what He has said He will do; Serious to believe God for greater things; And serious to cease the fantasizing about ministry and personal breakthrough! After all "a plan without a plan of action is a fantasy", let's put action to our plan...let's get serious!
"To know him is to trust him, to trust him is to obey him, to obey him is to be blessed by him, and to be blessed by him, is to be like him." (excerpt by Adrian Rogers)
Get Serious-
marc
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