For years now I have been teaching people that life is ministry. So often the church has become like the children of today, unable to organize a simple pick up game. When I was a kid we spent hours down at the field with the neighborhood kids playing football, baseball or basketball. We didn't need umpires, uniforms or an organization to be able to play ball.
Believers today have become very similar. We need some organization, or church program to engage in ministry when in reality ministry is right before us. Or we are so caught up in our daily problems that we don't recognize what God has called us to do.
This was the problem with Saul, who was soon to become king of Israel. Israel was looking for a king and Saul was busy looking for his father's donkeys. He goes to Samuel the prophet expecting to find the donkeys when he finds out that he is the solution to Israel's problem.
"And by the way, your lost donkeys—the ones you’ve been hunting for the last three days—have been found, so don’t worry about them. At this moment, Israel’s future is in your hands.” I Sam. 9:20 (The Message)
Can you imagine hearing those words, "The USA's future is in your hands." Wow! Saul was concerned with life's problems, when he was the solution to life's problems. Unfortunately Saul never did believe that he was the solution to Israel's problems. He was looking for something more organized or someone else to solve that problem.
This morning I received a wonderful testimony from one of my Champions in Burundi. I am going to let Gerard tell the brief story.
“It was the first of July. We saw a young lady coming to our house crying. My wife and I asked her what was her problem? The lady told us she had got married two years ago and she has one daughter. Her husband died last month in May 2011. After that death, the family of her husband banished her saying that she had a daughter not a boy. She did not know where to go. Her father and mother died also a year ago after selling all the land. The thieves came and stole all the things she had.
Hearing all this, I remembered that I'm a solutionist and that I must pass that test. I told my wife first to give her food. After food, we gave her cloths for her and her child. Then we helped her to receive Jesus Christ because she was Muslim. Now she is a Christian and now we are seeking how to help her to find judges for those problems of her family."
He gets it! Ministry happens 24/7. Are you ready? Do you believe that you are the solution to someone's problem? It is not only your destiny, it is theirs also!
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