Are You Paying Attention?

The challenge that I gave my congregation yesterday went something like this: “If you fail to pay attention to your choices, your obedience and your gospel, then you are failing to be a Christian.” The fact of the matter is this: when God calls a man or woman to be the person He wants them to be, there is responsibility on the part of that person whom God has called to pay attention to the “product” of the life that is lived.

Let me try and explain it this way: Let’s say I own a business that makes widgets of some kind. Now I want to build this business to become something great so I hire people into my company who do all sorts of things. Some people actually build the widgets, some test the widgets, some prepare the widgets to be shipped, others manage all of the people who do all of this stuff. But each individual, while called to the greater purpose of building widgets, is responsible to produce the product of a widget. If even one of the people in the production line fails to do their job properly, the widget will no longer be the widget that I wanted to be produced.

Now, let’s take this analogy and put it in terms of the church. God is the one who owns the business, and this business is called the church. He is the one building the business and He is the one responsible for the hiring of those who will work in the business. Therefore, He has a reasonable right to expect that those who work with and for Him to hold a certain standard of excellence when doing their work. If we fail to pay attention to the work we are doing, it will not be long until the work fails and becomes less than what it was intended to be.

So, Christian, let me ask you the question: Are you paying attention to the life that you are living? Are you paying attention the gospel that you are proclaiming by your word and your deeds? Are you paying attention to be obedient to the Word of God as it is defined in your life? If not, allow this post to be your wake up call. Because there is no better time than now to get up and to PAY ATTENTION!

Think about that today! And God bless you!