Love inaction?
Like the parable of the sower and the seed, it is our duty to spread the gospel (truth) and that is all. We carry no burden of responsibility as to how our effort is received. All that matters is that we have the faith to put put our love into action. Jesus lists only five possible results for our efforts, and that is very good news. With that 20% chance of success, God has promised a "thirty, sixty or even a hundred" fold return! That may be why Martin Luther King concluded that "the arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
I want to leave you now with words of "late, great Steven R. Bee." He was a quadriplegic Christian who inscribed these words, pen in mouth, into the first Bible that I ever actually read, "that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion." (Phil. 1:6). Like Steve, I believe that faith in action "shall not return void, but shall accomplish [it's goals] and prosper--
When Jesus walked the road to Calvary and could carry his cross no more, there was a man who was ordered to pick up the cross and carry it for Him. His name was Simon. In Hebrew, the name Simon means, "to hear, and to be heard." Please forgive the following comparison, but it is the only way I know to share what is on my heart.
The past few years I "picked up my cross" and did my best do what God laid on my heart to spread the truth, but about a month ago, I was at my wit's end. I just couldn't go on. My husband told me that if I really "let it go" and trusted in God, He would either solve my problems, or He would "take this cup from me." So I prayed -- cried out actually, that "not my will, but [His] will be done" and laid it all down. About a week later, when a peace was settling in around me, Jason Rink called and asked what it would take for me to entrust The Liberty Voice to him.
Like so many journeys that are begun with little more than faith, it is often difficult to see where the road will lead. What is most important, is that we listen and obey whenever we hear the still, quiet voice. Jason heard the great calling and stepped up to answer it, and I believe that he and the message of his paper, The Liberty Voice will be heard louder and clearer than ever as a result.
I hope you will be a part of his journey like so many of you have been a part of mine. I should probably name many of you here. Instead, I will trust that you will receive a much greater reward in another time and place and that alone will suffice.
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