Let's Get Really Real.

People talk about injustices and oppressions and so on as being part of "the real world". But is that what the people of God should be saying?

Then what does this mean?

"Your kingdom come, Your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven"

Am currently reading "Created to be God's Friend: Lessons from the Life of Abraham" by Henry Blackaby. As always, beautifully, gracefully and soundly written. Because it's the outcome of a careful expository study of the Bible, and also the outcome of a life committed to living wholeheartedly by God's Word, and the testimonies that come out of it.

Learnt that one thing about being God's friend is that you'll start to share His Heart - the "Heart of God" as Blackaby puts it so well. You'll want to intercede. You'll want to plead. You'll want to stand in the gap.

No. This "real world" that we talk so carefreely about is not the world that God intended it to be.

But let's entrust justice into the Lord's hands... and let's be agents of His mercy. To live a life that speaks of another world... a world that is not of this world. Because we are citizens of a new world, the ambassadors for a new kingdom - the Kingdom of God.

Let's care for those the world couldn't care less about. Let's love those whom the world spits at. Let's befriend the outcasts, the nerds, the crazies, the losers, the slaves... because Jesus wants to be their friend.

Let's treat our maids well. Let's serve the coffee aunties. Let's speak respectfully to the store clerks and taxi drivers and fast-food waiters. Let's honour those whom the world despises.

Let's speak up for those who cannot speak up for themselves. Let's defend the oppressed and the orphans. Let's care about justice for the poor.

Let's live genuine lives that love God and love people. Let's not pay empty lip-service, but live out lives in full faith. Let's not have meaningless worship, but rather, let's have heart-felt, sincere prayers... Let's not settle for spiritual junk food, for being spoon-fed basic truths again and again, but let's rise up to obey the Great Commission in every aspect of our lives.

Let's not settle for empty religion, but for a living and pulsating relationship with the Redeemer himself.

Let's not seek to build our own houses and careers, but forget to build the church of Christ and the kingdom of God.

Let's not seek to buy nice cars and go on holidays, but forget to walk with God and go forth on missions.

Let's not seek to build big houses and have good schools, but forget to build sweet homes and teach God's Word.

So let's heed the words of the LORD spoken through Amos the prophet, to His people who had degenerated from meaningful worship into meaningless rituals:

Even though you bring Me burnt offerings and grain offerings,
I will not accept them.
Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,
I will have no regard for them.

Away with the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.

But let justice roll on like a river,
righteousness like a never-failing stream!

So dear friends, let's be radical, let's be revolutionary... let's be realistic. Reality as it really is: reality according to God, not according to men.

Let's be real. Let's get real. Let's rumble!