Reaching out
to others requires we not be too comfortable. Today, too many Christians are
too often in a spiritual place of not wanting to grow. Too often, we are
content with where we are. We are content to put our own wants and needs before
anyone else. Today, in our faith, perhaps we do not have the passion to grow.
Unfortunately, today, in the bone and marrow of our service to Christ, we are
content. Unfortunately, today, in our faith, perhaps we feel we are big enough
and we don't care to be bigger. Unfortunately, today, we are satisfied. We are
happy. We are fat. We are lazy. We are rich. Everything is OK. Nothing is
really wrong. Unfortunately, today, everything is peachy keen and we have
little passion. In the faith, we are too often consumed with ourselves, and
with our own little problems. For many of us who are capable of reaching out,
reaching out is OK. However, reaching out is just too risky, so we don't reach
out. In our faith, we want to be kept. We want to be secure. In our faith, we
want to be tended to. We do not want to be uncomfortable, uneasy, or nervous.
We do not want to take risks. We are like fish in an aquarium, where all of our
needs, wants, and desires are met. Paul Harvey noted, "Too many Christians
are no longer fishers of men but keepers of the aquarium."
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