God's Greatest Adventure for Your Life

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Friday, January 24, 2014   Jeff Lampl

 “Whoever heard me spoke well of me, and those who saw me commended me,
because I rescued the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none
to assist him.
The man who was dying blessed me; I made the widow's heart sing.
I put on righteousness as my clothing; justice was my robe and my turban.
I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.
 I was a father to the needy; I took up the case of the stranger.
I broke the fangs of the wicked and snatched the victims from their teeth”
Job 29:11-17 (NIV)

On Sunday we finish Unfinished:  Believing is only the beginning.    Coaches, parents, teachers and mentors all tell us to finish strong.  Here’s how you can finish this series strong. 

First, read the above scripture and tell God that’s the kind of man or woman you want to be.  Ask Him to create that heart in you with the discipline to follow through.

Second, read the following excerpt taken directly from the last two pages of the book
(pp 215, 216)

Look around you.  What can you see?  What is yours to do?   . . . .   In God’s expanding kingdom there is no unimportant job and no insignificant person.  Every one of his spiritual dominoes is positioned to ignite a sprawling chain reaction that will echo through the years.  But that first domino must fall; your domino must fall.  Is there a single mom who needs your encouragement, a child who needs your love?  Do you see the elderly woman, lonely for a friend; a drowning teenager, hungering for a dad?  Have you looked into the hearts of those you work with and seen the desperation in their lives?  Is there an immigrant family struggling to adjust, needing a friend to guide them in a foreign place?  Is there a social problem that you might mobilize people to solve?  Do you have in your bank account the money that a floundering ministry needs to survive, that a homeless man needs to get a fresh start?  Do you have skills and abilities that others need – in finance, as a doctor or lawyer or handyman who can repair a broken-down car?  Is there an issue of justice for which you can advocate, a wrong that you can right?  Do you ache for the children who die from hunger, the orphans lacking a home, or the widow with children who just needs a loan?  So many people are crying out to God for his help.  Might you be the answer to one of their prayers?  How many people still wait to see and hear the good news of Jesus Christ?  How many invitations from the King have yet to be delivered?  “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”  (Rom. 10:15)

There are as many ways to join the great mission of Christ in our world as there are people.  You have met in this book just a few of the hundreds of people I’ve encountered who are living their own kingdom adventures.  The one thing they all share is the unwavering belief that God made them for a purpose, to serve him and build his kingdom.  They have rearranged their lives to put Christ and his kingdom mission at the center.  They have enlisted; they have joined the rescue mission to take the world for Christ, to serve as ambassadors of his love and herald the good news of the gospel.  They are the finishers, and the thing they have in common is that they have all said yes to God’s great adventure for their lives.  It doesn’t matter who you are:  rich or poor, young or old, educated or not.  You are a child of the King.  You are loved beyond measure.  You were created for a purpose.  And you have been invited to join the great rescue mission of our Father who is in heaven.  He asks only that you bring whatever you hold in your hands; then he asks you to let it go, to offer it to him.

That’s when the adventure begins.

 

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