There's something that has really been tugging at my heart recently, and frankly I'm a bit surprised. Well, I shouldn't be surprised, it's actually what I have wanted all along, but the timing seems a tadbit off. The title of this post should be more on the side of "a rediscovered heart..."
I guess it all started during the baptisms of some of the youth at Livingstone (my home home church). Just seeing that 4 out of many candidates were baptized. And in this past week, I've been discovering more and more why people weren't baptized, and some of the reasons break my heart. And to those who have been baptized, I see a true transformation, and I see desire. My church makes the process of being baptized a serious issues, filled with endless sunday classes, an interview, and other stuff, I used to think it was all dumb. But after this last baptism, I see real maturity in the newly baptized believers, I see them thirsting after the Lord. I see that they don't need someone to push them, but that they are really striving after the Lord.
But this new heart I'm talking about, it has to do with both those who haven't been baptized and those that have been. I see something changing in our group at Livingston, and I know it is only by the Lord's doing. I know that the enemy is attacking, and I think it's about time I stepped it up a bit at my church, take bolder steps, and do bolder things.
It's time to improve not for the sake of improving, but improve for the sake of glorifying the Lord.
This new heart, is not for myself, but for those of Livingstone Alliance Church.
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