"WILL YOU BE STIRRED FOR YOUR LORD?"

Open your BIBLE, to II Timothy 1, beginning with verse 6. I will take a word out of  this verse of Scripture and emphasize it in our thinking.

"Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. "  Here is a picture of a fundamentalist by the name of Paul writing to a young  fundamentalist  preacher by  the name of Timothy.  Both  believed  the  Word  of  God, believed in God and Christ, and were saved and called of God. Paul was seeking to stir up this young man.

In I and II Timothy  PAUL kept on exhorting him: "Endure hardship as a good soldier.…Study to shew thyself approved." What was he doing? The very thing we have to do. If we don’t stir up people, move people, we have failed. If we can preach Sunday morning, Sunday night and Wednesday night, and no one is stirred to go out and do what God says, we haven’t done much. Paul was doing this at all times. He wrote to the Christians in the church at Rome, at Corinth, at Philippi, at Ephesus, in the same manner—to stir and move and shake them.

The indifference of this day should stir us. Oh, the selfishness of this day. Paul said, "For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s" (Phil. 2:21). We are not concerned. It is every man for himself. We see selfishness on every hand. People don’t want to be stirred. They have gotten in a rut. A rut is a grave with both ends knocked out. They go on their way. They don’t want to be stirred. Do we pray, "O God, stir my heart! O God, move me! O God, let me be what You want me to be"?

I keep telling myself that I don’t have to witness God's amazing grace. At my age, I could stay at home; and keep my mouth shut,  but I am burdened. I look, and I cry. I see tragedy all around me.

Join me; and let us be "doer's of the Word."

God bless,

Bro. Roy