“Then the master said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.” (Luke 14:23 New King James Version)
Research reveals that there are really undeniable negative impacts associated with sitting for long periods of time. For example, your blood sugar levels can rise, the likelihood of heart disease is increased, your mood is not good, your sleep may be lacking, and weight levels increase. Those were just examples! There are more negative consequences of not interrupting the uninterrupted failure to move! So, from a physical perspective, we need to move more. Moving will benefit us and others around us.
Let’s just focus on how the lack of movement impact by one person can impact others negatively. When one does no move enough, his/her mood can interfere with social interaction with others on all levels. When no movement affects your mood negatively, you often fail at modeling Christian behavioral traits and because you are a role model for somebody or somebodies, including individuals who are under your leadership, and they unconsciously indoctrinated in how to handle certain situations, they act in similar situations. Just as moving will benefit us and others around us, the lack of movement can hurt others. And as you can deduct, like falling dominos, those impacted negatively initiates a perpetual motion, or shall we say a contaminating force that reaches many other persons.
As Christians, the same mandate in the title of today’s meditation applies to us. We have been told to “Go ye therefore,” but we sit. We have been told, “And you shall be my witnesses,” but we sit. With excitement and vigor, our voices sing “Go Tell It On The Mountain,” at least during the Christmas season, but yet, we sit. We have been told that the gospel must be preached throughout the whole earth, but yet we sit.
What’s the point? The point is that we need to interrupt the uninterrupted failure to move and exercise our duty to spread the gospel, recruit souls for Christ, and retain them in the kingdom. I know you have read the closing opening and closing verses before, and you probably know them by heart, but I have added them again, so you know that not think that it was physical science or self that inspired me to say that we need to interrupt the uninterrupted failure to move. No, it’s not science, not self, but it is the Savior, still speaking specifically to you and to me. Think on these things! Be blessed!
“’And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.’”
Committed to the climb,
Mark L. King
It is a sad testimony that we sit too long when we know our charge as Christians: “Go ye therefore…”. Speaking for myself, I know that’s the case. One step can make all of the difference in bringing one soul to Christ. He has done great things for me. “I must needs go!”
Yes, the environment today makes it more difficult than when we went door to door, but we will have to take a chance at more personal evenagelism when the opportunity presents itself. Thanks for your response.