Mark Beeson

What Are You Reaching For?

 

I've been thinking a lot about our mission in the last few days and my answers to these two questions keep running through my mind:
 

1. What are we reaching for?
    
2. What are we willing to do to get it?
    

Most great visions are realized through intense focus, massive investment and grand collaboration. Few achieve lofty goals with little effort. It is faithful Resolve that reaches courageously into the future to grab the prize. 

Everyone runs; not everybody wins.

What are you striving for?

1 Corinthians 9:19-25  -  Even though I am free of the demands and expectations of everyone, I have voluntarily become a servant to any and all in order to reach a wide range of people: religious, nonreligious, meticulous moralists, loose-living immoralists, the defeated, the demoralized—whoever. I didn’t take on their way of life. I kept my bearings in Christ—but I entered their world and tried to experience things from their point of view. I’ve become just about every sort of servant there is in my attempts to lead those I meet into a God-saved life. I did all this because of the Message. I didn’t just want to talk about it; I wanted to be in on it!

You’ve all been to the stadium and seen the athletes race. Everyone runs; one wins. Run to win. All good athletes train hard. They do it for a gold medal that tarnishes and fades. You’re after one that’s gold eternally.

 

One Light In A Dark Time

I've been repeating one of the lines I heard last week during our "Let It Be - Christmas" musical. It's comforting to me.

"A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices,
for yonder breaks a new and glorious morn.."

As I wait for daybreak, I'm clinging to the one light I have in this dark time.

2 Peter 1:19  - We couldn't be more sure of what we saw and heard—God's glory, God's voice. The prophetic Word was confirmed to us. You'll do well to keep focusing on it. It's the one light you have in a dark time as you wait for daybreak and the rising of the Morning Star in your hearts.