(From Jeff Wilson, Market Place Impact)
“Three military recruiters
accepted an invitation to address the senior class of a local high school.
Graduation was only a few months away, and the principal wanted his three
hundred young people to hear of the options available in the military.
The assembly was to be
forty-five minutes in length. It was agreed that each recruiter would have
fifteen minutes to make his pitch and then have another twenty minutes in the
cafeteria to meet with interested young people. The Army recruiter went first
and got so excited about his speech that he went five minutes over. The
Navy recruiter, not to be outdone, stood up and also spoke for twenty minutes.
The Marine recruiter,
realizing that his fifteen minute speech had been cut to five, walked up to the
podium and spent the first sixty seconds in silence. Wordlessly, he
gazed over the group of high school seniors. They knew he was sizing
them up. After what seemed to be an eternity, the recruiter said, “I
doubt whether there are two or three of you in this room who could cut it as
Marines. I want to see those three individuals as soon as this assembly
is dismissed.” He then turned on his heel and sat down.
Predictably,
he was mobbed by a herd of interested recruits
when he
arrived in the cafeteria.
The Marine Corps is always
on the lookout for a "few good people". So is
God!
"For
the eyes of the LORD move to and fro throughout the earth that
He may
strongly support those whose heart is completely His.”
2
Chronicles 16:9
God is searching throughout the earth.
God is searching for those whose heart is
completely (not partially) His.
God desires to strongly support those rare
individuals.
Do you want the strong
support of God? (What a dumb question!) Of course we all
do. The real question we must ask is, “Am I all-in with God?” The
first disciples and early followers of Christ were radically committed to
follow Jesus.
Matt 7:13-14 reads, "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the
gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through
it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life,
and only a few find it."
The right
"few" can change the world.
All in,
Jeff Wilson
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Inspired By Love,
Marcus J. Singleton
Lead Pastor
Living Faith Community
Marcus J. Singleton
Lead Pastor
Living Faith Community
Hoover, AL
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love of Jesus,
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