Are You Secure?

I would like to give an excerpt from a book that I just finished reading.
    
     "The majority of people in the world prefer to be "secure," which means keeping their own little "worlds" stable with little change. Because of this characteristic of human nature, we easily can get "tunnel vision" and miss the prompting of the Holy Spirit to make a change in our churches or in our lives."  (God's armor bearer book 2 by Terry Nance)
 
      So I am now to ask, is this you? Have you felt like God has called you to do something else but it comes up in your mind.... God, the church we are going to is only 5 min up the road and the one you are calling us for is an hour; are you sure?  Or are you content with the size of your church not wanting allot of change because it will break up the normal Sunday routine? Or how about this, you get mad when God is telling you to change something but it doesn't fit into your daily schedule? Are we so lax with our prayer and talking to God that we would rather stay secure than do the will of God? Do you look at conveniences rather than do what the Lord has told you to do?
    
     We all have done this at one time or another. You might be doing it right now but didn't really think of it like that. Especially with church workers we need to not get "tunnel vision" during our daily tasks for the church. A change that God is calling you to make may offend you at first but that is not the purpose. If you are done with the task that he assigned he is going to send someone to take it from you so don't get mad. If the pastor changes something don't get mad because is messes up your routine. Thank God for calling that person to take over and thank God for the opportunity for that task while you had it and how he is going to keep providing. I mean really, we are so quick to question pastors but we need to always remember we are serving Jesus!!! Think of it this way....

"If Jesus asked you to clean the church bathrooms, how clean would they be?
If Jesus asked you to drive a bus on the church bus route, would you be on time?
If Jesus asked you to pray for your Church hand leadership, how fervently would you pray?
If Jesus asked you to get involved in your local church, how quickly would you respond?"
(God's armor bearer book 2 by Terry Nance)

     I brought up pastors because they have been given the vision for the church. For a majority of the time the changes that will be made that will unhinge your "secure" feeling will come from the pastor but what you have to remember that it is actually God. So, do you want to be "secure" or do you want to follow the Holy Spirit? And if you did have a question about a change would you still ask it if Jesus was asking you to do it?

Can you handle the truth?

Sitting up late working on the lesson for Wed. night and I couldn't fit this in so what a better way to get it out there than a blog post. Can you handle the truth? I mean really handle it. If your pastor, mentor, father, mother or coworker really came up to you with all sincerity and told you something how would you take it? Would you do like Jesus? Probably not, you would probably start yelling, storm off or something like that.  There are always going to be things that we need to change and we all know what they are but why is it when someone else brings them up we get so mad?  What we should be doing is being happy that someone would even have the guts to even talk to us about it and embrace that person even more for doing it. Have you ever had that moment where it felt like God just smacked you in the back of the head for not doing what he said or still doing what he told you not to do? He is not scared to tell you when you are doing something wrong so why do we think of it differently when he does it and someone else does? How about this, God told that person to talk to you......... Oops, would you have really said that to him/her if you thought that first? So can you handle the truth or not?