There is something about the sound of morning traffic…it gives even the smallest of towns a big city feel. Don’t get me wrong, the overwhelming sights and sound of what appears to be a flash mob of late 80’s Datsuns braided into cowboy up pickup trucks, and the latest style M3’s can drive (pun intended) anyone into a raging fit. But for some uncanny reason, the latter elements are permissible in the morning hours. Perhaps though its not so mysterious…perhaps it gives that feeling of being Alive, and because I’m alive I have purpose.
The problem with finding our purpose in life is this. If our Purpose is not tandem with a burden then finding our purpose is like trying to fill a bucket without a bottom. You might be wondering why a burden fulfills our purpose, so let me clarify. First off any burden we try to carry on our own will ultimately destroy us, a burden is a responsibility sowed in us by God so that we may produce an outward expression of his heart and passions on this earth. That being said, God is the one to carry the weight of the burden.
In the first chapter of Nehemiah, we see a heavy burden expressed. Nehemiah’s burden was so heavy that it seeped from him and could not be hidden. He wanted to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, but even more His heart ached for his people to return God. This is such a beautiful example of God’s heart, passions, and, desires instilled into a man, I believe that God still operates in this very manner. God instills his desires into each and every one of us so that His desires become our desires and that those desires are used to change the face of this ever-changing world.
Burdens come in all forms and we are not going to all share the same burdens, that cold go with out saying. The challenge is this, to do something about it. If you have a burden to adopt battered and abused children…do it. If you feel the responsibility to take on child sex trafficking…do it. If you have the desire to move to a foreign country…act on it. Because, if you’re not outraged at what’s going on than you are not paying attention.
May we all be burdened with our father’s heart for his people.
i like it man.
Thanks Lee…How you been man? Hows the East Coast doing?
the east coast is nice as always. getting cold. but i’m east coast to the core bro.
East Coast to the core huh…I knew there was something shifty about you. hehe
ok honestly! you cannot say there is traffic in oakhurst. i would give anything to have “oakhurst traffic”. a couple of weeks ago, i drove to LA and it took me 3 hours… i live 40 minutes away
sorry for the tangent on a good topic
Ok…I live on school road, High school traffic in the morning is killer.
this was awesome.
(here i go to face the AM traffic.)