I think there comes a day, a moment, when each follower of Jesus has to ask themselves a simple question: “Am I dangerous?”
Every Christian, should pose an imminent threat to the enemy’s kingdom. We should live a life that endangers the darkness. A life that is molded and shaped by the gospel. A life that is lived for the things of light.
You should be dangerous. You’re called to be dangerous, Jesus wants you to be dangerous.
But the enemy desires apathy. There’s a lot of church-going Christians who cause little to no fear in the eyes of the enemy.
- They (we) live in comfort. Our Bibles can be highlighted in yellow, but our lives are lived in safety and comfort-vanilla.
- We read heroic stories of women and men who give everything for the gospel, and we say amen, yet still do nothing!
- We attend small groups, share food, talk about mission, but nothing actually changes.
- We download podcast, vodcast, and listen to sermon after sermon, but gospel transformation still does not happen.
Why is this?
Occasionally, you meet people (they are random) possibly unknown, but there’s something about meeting those people, you can see it in their eyes, they don’t live for a title, recognition, they don’t live for a house, or a job, they don’t even live for their kids. (It seems that we use our kids as a primary way to avoid risk) These people have found a different way to live, a way that says death is the way to life – they live abandoned to the cause of Jesus, and to live in such a way, a dangerous way, a way that causes the enemy to take notice.
If you’re living this way, rest assured, the enemy is knocking on God’s door, asking to try and take you down, just like Job. He wants you, you pose a threat.
So the question is simple, are you dangerous? If not, why?
May we all be dangerous women and men, who hide in the shadow of Jesus, who are led by the presence of the Holy Spirit, and who understand, that Satan, could be having a conversation with God, about you, dangerous Christ-follower!
A wee bit crazy I must say. But keep at it and we shall be victorious in the eyes of the enemy, he shall make him perish in a wheelie bin.