Finding Your "Want To"

Kingdom work - outreach, restoration, forgiveness, sacrifice - can be very demanding in terms of physical, emotional and spiritual output. Mission work can be exhausting and dangerous. Working with homeless can be frustrating and risky. Forgiving people in general opens you up to being let down. 

There are many barriers to accomplishing kingdom work such as financial restraints, physical limitations, safety concerns, logistical improbabilities, education, skill sets and the like. But the greatest barrier often is a missing "want to."  

With God's help, we can find ways to scales all the barriers set before us but without the desire, without a spirit of "want to," we are not likely to begin trying let alone complete the task. 

We tend to be more concerned with personal safety than another's soul. We are geared toward acquiring our wants more than providing another's needs. Me and my own often eclipse others entirely. It's hard to have a "want to" for others when I am focused so much on me. 

To really get involved in kingdom work, it takes something beyond ourselves, it takes the love of God. That is why Jesus' prayer for his disciples,max he prepared to leave, included, "I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them” (Jn 17:26).

What it takes to do kingdom work is not more money, time, education or skill.  What it takes is more love - more love than we are capable of in and of ourselves, it takes the love of God to reach the in reachable and love the unloveable. 

While seeking the love of God, you will find your "want to."  Jus' Sayn.