“However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find fiath on the earth?
From Luke 18:8
Sometimes you build the platform and then the L-rd repsonds, and sometimes the L-rd just shows up and you respond.
There are two dynamics that run very close, inverse of one another, and yet, we must dance between them on a constant basis as belivers.
We are told, by the one group of believers, that if we attempt to do anything for the kingdom, that “all our righteousness is as filthy rags” (even though He has transformed us (2 Cor. 5:17). What, so Jesus saved us and transformed us from one form of filthy rags into another form of filthy rags?
And we are also told by the other group of beliveers, that if we just wait for the L-rd to act, that we are lazy and not bearing the fruit that is the testimony that we are His followers.
Both camps may not understand one another, but they both adject one another in the kingdom.
See, we were made to engage with both, and not to view one or the other as better or worse than the other.
Some days you are going to feel a GRACE to do something, to build, to get a wild hair and construct something.
And some days you are going to feel a GRACE to sit still and allow Him to be with you.
A grace to work, a grace for kingdom-laden effort where you work with dilligence.
Which has the same source as the grace to not act and to see Him act.
There are going to be days and seasons when you are supposed to construct a platform for the King, to marshall resources, to bolt boards and beams and set foundations and pour concrete and run wire and follow a set of prints.
The grace to manage. And even in the midst of revivals and moves of G-d, people still need to skillfully manage resources and supplies. Just because G-d shows up with miracles and wondrous things does not mean that we can stop all management.
We need to arrive on the other end of a move of G-d having passed the test of successfully handling what was put into our hands to use. And to not be swayed by every single need that tugs on us.
There are days when the revival gives us power and authority.
And some days, the power and authority are to say “NO” to the many needs, so we can say “YES” to the specific needs WE are called to handle. Just because resources fall into your lap does not mean you fritter those resources away on the first begging hand that comes to your door.
Are you capable of blessing those G-d tells you to bless, and also of listening to the King when He says “do not bless that person”?
Are you able to pray when the L-rd says to pray (and when He tells you to pray, He will supply the grace necessary to pray) and refrain when He says to refrain, even from praying?
He has designed you to accomplish a limited number of assignments on this earth and in this season.
So, there is truly a male form of faith, in which we build something and the L-rd responds to us.
And there is a female form of faith, in which we wait for the L-rd’s initiation, and He does something that we receive, and then we respond to Him.
Which season is it for you?
Male faith or female faith?
My challenge to you is this: Don’t merely act with one aspect of faith, assuming your form will be always blessed.
Sometimes you will need to execute what seems to you a foreign form of faith in order to move forward in a seaason.
And I bless you to hear when the music changes, so that your dance step changes.
Some days, we work faith in building a platform.
And other days, we lay in our beds and allow Him the prerogative to initiate.
Be blessed, gang.