Bryan Ong wonders why “feet”?If you have noticed, my new second header says “You can make a difference in the world if you have both your feet up in the air.” Yea, you ask “Why feet?”
Everyone walks around with their two feet on the ground am I right? You are different if you have your feet in the air. You are unique in that sense that everyone walks on the ground but you have your feet in the air. You are distinctive and one of a kind. That is why I chose feet.
You see, we are talking about taking dominion over different areas of our lives this year and the rest of your life. We as Christians will definitely know of one area which we need to take dominion of – the world. God, since the beginning of time, has created man to rule over the earth. In Psalm chapter 8, David sings of God making humans “ruler over the works of Your (God’s) hands,” and “placing everything under his (man’s) feet.”
As I always say, we live in a world darkening day by day. As each moon ends its shift, the cry of the earth not knowing her Savior gets louder and louder. Everyday we read of news of people committing suicide in the name of god and killing in the name of god. Rape cases and murders are like a norm for us nowadays. Teenagers selling images of their naked bodies on the internet is so rampant. Online sex is not new anymore and people defiling themselves as they like without the feel of guilt. Brothers and sisters in church are bad-mouthing one another when we are suppose to love. Fathers raping their daughters when they are suppose to protect. So-called Christians falling away from their faith and turning towards other gods when they are suppose to worship the True One. Doesn’t this call for the help of us Christians?
Jesus’ greatest mandate was given to us right before he was taken up to heaven to be with God. His mandate can be found in Matthew 28:19-20 and it is known as the Great Commission. Jesus commissioned us to go into the world and make disciples and to baptize them and teach them to do the same with others. That is the main call and mandate by which we must live for. Your life is not yours for the taking.
We are called to be different from the world. We are in the world but not of the world! The world lives by its worldly standard but we of higher call live by God’s standard! Why are we imitating the world when the world is supposed to imitate us? Do you think you will make any difference if you do everything the way the world does?
You talk like the world, how then can you tell them about Jesus?
You sing like the world, how then can about God?
You work like the world, how then can you serve God?
You are materialistic like the world, how then can you seek God’s kingdom?
You see like the world, how then can you see what God wants you to see?
You love the world, how then can you say you love God?
One last one from me but not the final –
YOU BLOG LIKE THE WORLD, HOW THEN CAN THE WORLD SEE GOD IN YOU AND YOUR LIFE?
Talking about taking dominion of the world for God, you can not even take dominion of your own relationship with God.
Quoting from Pastor John, “You can forget about taking dominion of the country and nation if you have not taken dominion over your relationship with God.”
Only RADICALS can make a difference.
I dare you to be RAD!
And if you are a blogger, I dare you to BLOG GOD and I dare you to be READ!
You can make a difference in the world if you have both your feet up in the air.
A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882-1945
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