Since the pandemic, I would hope that we have taken this “down time” to do some serious spiritual assessments and reflections regarding our personal walk with the Lord; take and use this time to question the level of your faith, commitment, service, prayer life, giving, love towards the brethren, etc.; to use this time to honestly look at those areas of your spiritual life that need to improve and/or change.
For If we are not careful, we can easily get caught up, worked up, and swept away in what is happening around and to us socially, at the expense of or detriment to our own spiritual growth and development.
Paul wrote, “Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (Romans 8:35) “But in all things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other rested thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:37-39)
As you can see, nothing in Paul’s life was going to distract or take him away from his first love, his calling, or his purpose in the Lord. Paul was all in, in his spiritual walk and work for the Lord!
Are you all in when it comes to the Lord? The Lord said, “No one can serve two masters; for either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to one and despise the other.” (Matt. 6:24) Christians have only one cause and that cause is: we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness, but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.” (1 Cor. 1: 23-24)
Are you all in for the Lord in your walk or are you half stepping? Some of us are only willing to walk with the Lord, as long as it doesn’t take them away from their causes, their interests, their plans or their time. They will make sure that their voices are heard and thoughts expressed on social and political issues of the day, but when it comes to the things of the Lord, their voices become strangely silent.
Are you all in when it comes to being excited and spiritually charged up in the things of the Lord? Do you get excited over meeting the needs of others, coming together on Sundays to worship and praise God, and being committed and actively involved in the ministries of the body? Or are you one to make excuses or find reasons why you can’t be involved? Have you become weary in doing good?
Are you all in to lead and live a life for no one else but Christ? A life where there is no turning back, no hesitation, no regrets, and second thoughts on your decision to do so! A life that is spiritually rich and rewarding to the souls and spirits of those who are all in when it comes to the will of God.
Being all in, means there is nothing or no one in your life who is above or comes before God.
Being all in means there is nothing that you will not do, there is no place you will not go, and no one you will not try to reach with the gospel, the good news in the name of the Lord!
Being all in you can say as well as prove like Paul did, “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me,” (Gal. 2: 20)
Brethren, it’s time for we who profess Him, to be all in for Him...
Are you In ?
In Him
Bro. Craigwell
