The Search Is On!

(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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Marcus J. Singleton
Lead Pastor
Living Faith Community 

Hoover, AL

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