On Dec 15, 2012 Current Events | Paul Gordon Collier | Serving the Natural
From Anguish is born God’s Workers
Luke 10:2
He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.
Matthew 5:4
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
I have been challenged lately in my walk to extend myself beyond what I have felt comfortable doing, to connect more with people around me, to go out and work the fields as God showed me this past summer I must be doing, we all must be doing.
This past summer I had a painful night of visions where I could see the death all around me, death that was to come in like a flood and sweep millions away in a death that has no end, the eternal death of the lost. In the past month, I have felt we had fully entered into the flood I saw coming in the summer.
The news of Connecticut was not a surprise to me. I expected it, or events like it, and I expect many more events like Connecticut to descend on this land. They are already descended. My challenge back in the summer was to go out and bring in the harvest that was to come, that wherever we, the sons and daughters of Christ, did not go out and do God’s work, of collecting the harvest, millions would enter into the death that has no end.
As I grew in my commitment to following Christ out into the fields, I reached a point where the challenge was becoming too much for me, where I was going too far beyond my own comfort. I was willing to walk in discomfort, but not too far into discomfort. My unwillingness to walk further was leading to a conflict with God.
What was it in the summer that spurred me, that convicted me to go out into the fields, that was missing in the winter, which was allowing me to resist God’s challenging call on my life? Newtown brought home the message for me, of what was missing and, unexpectedly, of what I was really trying to avoid.
read the full article at: http://disciplereport.com/2012/12/newtowns-anguish-gods-anguish-your-anguish/
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