As we watch history change before our eyes in the Middle East with governments teetering and people willing to lay down their lives for freedom, we must remember this very important thing:

Somewhere, whether in a room or a coffee house or a university classroom, one person spoke up and said, “Enough! We must fight for change now!” Because that one person dared to speak, others followed, and two governments have already fallen.

Is this not what Christ is calling us to do in these last days? Will we stand up – even if we feel we are alone – and say, “Enough! We must fight for change now! People are in darkness across this world! People still have not heard the truth! I will no longer be silent, nor will I be stationary!”

“The Bible is clear in telling us that God did not send Jesus to die so that we might be comfortable and complacent, but so that we might die to self, pick up our cross, and follow the way of the Master.”

Our Messiah and King did not call us to this kind of living! He called us to repudiate conformity, self-centeredness, compromise, pride, title, popularity, self-reliance, and all things that prevent us from being mirrors of Christ. He called us to a revolution of purity, holiness, and radical faith that is needed as much today as ever before in our history.

A guiding and persistent truth to our forefathers was that all men are created by their Creator, Jehovah God. This truth and the resulting tenets of our faith guided them in their pursuit of freedom and personal liberty for a new nation. Of course, this was before the world was enlightened that we came from apes, and before that, some form of amphibians that no longer exist … and before that, an accident in space.

One of the greatest lessons that we can learn is that we are on mission WITH GOD. When we get to wherever we are going, HE is already there! He is always working, always moving, always preparing, always sculpting a masterpiece for His glory! God is always about His purposes, moving and working the things…

The Maker looked at the pencil and instructed it on five important things:

1. You will only be useful when you are in held in your Master’s hand.