There is a world in need of peo­ple who would bear Christ and his king­dom to the ends of the earth. To fur­thest cor­ner of the nations of our world, to the for­got­ten cor­ners of our cities and towns, Jesus is look­ing for a dis­ci­ple will­ing to believe the unbe­liev­able, attempt the unat­tain­able, and achieve the unachiev­able. The Christ we fol­low is one of infi­nite, imag­i­na­tive poten­tial. His work, his Cross bears us up to go fur­ther than we’ve ever gone before. We can believe beyond a shadow of a doubt because it is the Maker of all Cre­ation we’re talk­ing about. Christ lives in us and moves in and through us; our lives must move with him. His heart beats for lost, the dying, the bro­ken, the weary; our hearts must fol­low in tune. We must bear up this Christ to a world in des­per­ate need.

To move beyond a shadow or a doubt, to believe in the God of all pos­si­bil­ity, to take this hope we have in Christ to all… This is what we must seek to do with our lives. To be instru­ments in his king­dom, to be used as he so desires, to sur­ren­der our will to his will, to be con­sumed by this Jesus we pro­fess. Where he is not just a thought or emo­tion, but is part of our very being, doing, and relating.

To be Christ’s hands and feet, to be Christ’s tears and com­fort, to be will­ing ves­sels used for his honor and glory. There is a dying world plead­ing for Christ to be revealed, not just in thought, under­stand­ing, or kind words. No. This king­dom must be revealed to a bro­ken world in hum­ble power, incar­na­tional truth, and redeem­ing love.

The world waits for us to move beyond the good ideas or ran­dom acts of kind­ness… It waits for us to live this trans­form­ing mes­sage of Christ and his King­dom. It waits for the Christ-follower with redemp­tive sor­row, imag­i­na­tion, and action. The world waits for those who have aware­ness and humility.

There are count­less sto­ries being writ­ten of pain, loss, suf­fer­ing, bro­ken­ness, and the brunt of human deprav­ity. As recip­i­ents of Christ’s redeem­ing story, we must embrace the sto­ries we find our­selves in. We must shine our lit­tle lights on the story Christ has writ­ten on our hearts, and in doing so point their sto­ries to Christ’s story.

My heart is bur­dened for the weary and the bro­ken… They are numer­ous in my city, lurk­ing behind every frown or smile, attempt­ing to live a full life, while run­ning on empty. They are cry­ing, des­per­ate for the mes­sage of Christ.

Will we bear up Christ to our world?
Will we move beyond our com­fort zones?
Will our lives speak of Christ and not our­selves?
Will we give it all for the sake of Christ?

If there were no road­blocks, what would we believe for?
What we would we attempt for the sake of Christ, if noth­ing stood in our way?

May we con­tinue to sor­row, imag­ine, and suf­fer, as we bear up Christ to our world…