It's an Every Day Thing

Obstacles

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

W. Clement Stone 1902-, American Businessman, Author

Isa 57:13-15
“But he who takes refuge in Me will inherit the land and will possess My holy mountain." And it will be said, "Build up, build up, prepare the way, remove every obstacle out of the way of My people." For thus says the high and exalted One Who lives forever, whose name is Holy, "I dwell on a high and holy place, And also with the contrite and lowly of spirit In order to revive the spirit of the lowly And to revive the heart of the contrite. NASU

I once heard a man say that an obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goals you are trying to reach. I am afraid that as Christians we need a time of refreshing and need to refocus our hearts on what our true goal is as a church. It is a time to call ourselves to an accounting for our actions, and to go to the alter to ask our God for strength and wisdom to see the obstacles keeping the church from its mission of reaching the lost.

My wife and I recently have moved, and that is always work, but praise God for my wife’s diligence to take it in small bites. It was something that she did a little of everyday and some days were longer than others, but it was not something that we could do in one day, it was something that we set a goal to do and everyday we did something to reach that goal. We can learn from that as a church.

So many times in our churches we have “events.” What I mean by that is that we have a planned time to go together to do something for Christ. They are beneficial and touch many lives, but I think that we all fall short in the time between events. Obstacles are everyday events for Satan, each day he is blocking the road to salvation for so many and he is busy thwarting the many efforts of the church. I’m afraid that even with the best intentions, if we rely on events we will fall behind.

What Christ asks us to do is to live every day for Him. Paul tells us in Rom 14:19 “So then we pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another.” In the preceding verses Paul speaks of obstacles and that we are not to be creators of obstacles, but the removers of those things that stand between Christ and the lost and dying of this world. My brothers and sisters in Christ, this is an everyday job and events will not make the impact you and I can have everyday for Christ in this world. Let’s you and I determine to do this “as we go”…God Bless.

Pastor William