Fuse of the Explosion

I guess I am also battling the question, "why have excitement?" In the house of sorrow is repentance. We are to be sober-minded as a result of girding the loins of our mind. (Is it ironic that I am asking this question? You don't know the inner workings of my brain.)

Shouldn't we be GROANING for His return as does the earth? We need to work until His return though. I want to be found as a good and faithful servant when the Master returns.

Psychics are meeting at a bookstore in Marysville every Friday night. Should I/we do anything about it? Should we go every Friday to pray for them directly and in the open or should we be in our safe HFGs -- praying away from them, but FOR them still? This is not a sarcastic and/or condemning question for those who attend HFGs in particular, but for myself in specific.

Why am I not a missionary here? Should I stand up on the bus stop bench and preach the Gospel? How can I find more ways to serve the lost? How am I doing at discipling those inside the church? Am I showing them His word and Truth? Partially -- and that's not good enough. So, no.

Where's the balance between inner church activity (ministry) and outer church activity (evangelism)?

What about the responsibility given to Ezekiel? Ezekiel 33 talks about Ezekiel being the watchman for the house of Israel. Have we been made watchmen presently in our churches and communities? I would say churches most definitely. We are supposed to FIGHT for the truth and for the faith (Jude, etc). Matthew 28:18-20 does give us some (sarcasm -- much more than "some") for the reaching of the lost. Romans -- How can they believe if they have not heard?

How will I/we be judged for the sharing of the Gospel? (For our stewardship of the Gospel? For our job as ambassadors for Him?)

But, He is not dependent on me for this working. I must and can ONLY work out what He has worked in. Well, what has He worked in? I must love Him and love others.

Stephen is a good example. Daniel is a good example. I do enjoy their examples. Of Daniel, "man greatly beloved." (Daniel 10:11) He PRAYED and was faithful in the earthly tasks God gave him to do. And of Stephen, "a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit." (Acts 6:5) Oh if those words could be said of me! He was full of faith (full of faith) and power and he was AMONG the PEOPLE. He had wisdom. He was not afraid. He was faithful in his small earthly tasks as well.

Let me not desire for great things, but to serve faithfully in the unseen things.
(That would be the opposite of my character and would be the GRACE of my Lord Jesus alone. May He work mightily and receive the glory alone!!)