The Bible invites us to center ourselves on Christ in Heaven, and from that spiritual home to do all we can to transform ourselves and the world around us.
Our role as the royal priesthood of believers and under-shepherds of Christ is not to further scatter the sheep, but to gently encourage them into the heavenly fold of our Chief Shepherd.
Treat those who are beginning their faith journey with the same love and respect and care that we have for those who have long walked the spiritual pathways.
And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching. (Mark 6:6 KJV)
Faith leads to optimism, and then to actions for betterment.
The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. (Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV)
Regardless of what challenges we face, God will be with us. We need to maintain our faith.
Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy; And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south. (Psalm 107:2-3 KJV)
It’s all a part of God’s whole plan of salvation that we would just plant these seeds of love and kindness wherever we go, however we can.
“The kingdom of God is like a grain of mustard seed, which when it is sown in the earth is less than all the seeds that be in the earth. But when it is sown it groweth up and becometh greater than all herbs and shooteth out great branches. So the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.” (Mark 4:31-32 KJV)
