A Large Vat of Spiritual Ice Water

Often times we can get spiritually numb. We get distracted and loose our sense of urgency. That happened to me this week. Its like we forget we are in a battle and all of the sudden we think we have the right to be comfortable and please ourselves. Well Friday morning I was listening to a sermon by Francis Chan from Cornerstone church in Simi Valley and I woke up.

He just wrote a book, and will be getting $500,000 in royalties this year. Instead of spending it he opened a charitable trust so that it can only be given to charitable organizations. 100% of his royalties are going to this trust. He also has a friend working with International Justice Mission who works in Cambodia to shut down the brothels (girls are between the ages of 8-18). So some of the money will go there. Some will go to the 50,000 Christians in India who have been displaced by radicals, and some to the aids pandemic in Africa etc. Some people told Francis that he should save some of it in case of an emergency. Do you know what he said? he said "do you think that the brothels in Cambodia are not an emergency?" What is an emergency? Is it only an emergency if you are directly involved? Look around this is an emergency, the day of the Lord is at hand and we have forgotten we are in a battle.

The Lord used this sermon series to wake me up to the emergency around us. Stop saving for an emergency, stop waiting for an emergency. This is an emergency.

If you want to listen to them, go to cornerstone simi's page and listen to the 3 part series "living a life that matters"