When prayer isn’t enough …

Prayer isn’t enough when …

… you have hands and won’t use them to serve others …

… you have legs and will not  use them to go in the name of Christ …

… you have a voice and won’t speak truth with it …

… you have a pantry and cabinets full of food and others having nothing to eat …

… you have a roof over your head (with room to spare) and others have nowhere to lay their heads …

… you have “disposable income” that you dispose of rather than steward in Christ’s name …

… that’s when prayer is an empty act of tossing all the needs of others back to God and telling Him to deal with it.

God tosses it back and reminds us the reason He blesses us isn’t for our own indulgence. It’s to be the body of Christ here on earth. That includes being His body with His mind and His heart toward others; a fully equipped body complete with hands and legs and everything it takes to not only take care of ourselves, but to actively, fervently, passionately love and serve others through Christ.

Prayer is essential, but prayer alone is blatantly un-Christlike. Jesus didn’t simply pray, He lived a life of aggressively serving the real and direct needs of others, making His life a living resource and, ultimately, a sacrifice for us.

Today, many Christians use prayer as a cop out for a full, authentic followership of Christ. Once you get off your knees, get up to do all that you’re capable of doing in Christ’s name.

Scotty