It's been more than a year since some of my friends and I read the book "Radical:Taking Back Your Faith From the American Dream" by David Platt . The book challenged readers to pray for the world, serve in a different capacity than you have in the past, go on a foreign mission trip, and read the Bible in one year. The "Radical Bible Reading Girlfriends Club" was founded in an effort to help spur each other on towards achieving some of the goals outlined in the book. I have been grateful for the peer pressure! The opportunity to read the Bible in a more disciplined way this year gave me eyes to see God's amazing plan of redemption with fresh eyes. I was completely reminded of His utter holiness and righteous demands. And how relentless His pursuit is for His beloved. Our ministry of reconciliation with the world should be that passionate! I am deeply convicted of my lack of mourning for the lost and my lack of zeal to be bold and courageous. When I finished Revelation ...my heart nearly stopped as I imagined Faithful and True coming back on His white horse. The images painted are frightening and beautiful at the same time. When He said.."It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. He who overcomes will inherit all of this, and I will be His God and he will be my son. But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars-their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death. (Rev. 20:6-8)....Wow. What a picture! Oh that the LORD will give me courage and faith to endure and overcome until the end. I am constantly wrestling with God for more faith. I need more! Most days I feel like such an amateur. And after everything I've seen the LORD do! If I look back on the past year...remembering what my Bible reading friends and I have prayed for...how can I lack faith?
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