Keep us from just singing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMoqb6fwX1E

Those of you who know me well know that I really, really want to be a worship leader. It's something I'm passionate about and its somewhere God is leading me. Tim Hughes has hit the nail on the head with this song, 'keep us from just singing... we must go'.

God's heart is for justice. We can see it all through the scriptures.
"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because He has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favour." - Luke 4:18-19
"Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— when you see the naked, to clothe them and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?' - Isaiah 58 v 6-7

^'What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if people claim to have faith but have no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, "Go in peace; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.'- James 2 v 14-17

I love the song Hosanna by Brooke Fraser and the bridge seems to sum up perfectly the commitment I want to make to God.

Heal my heart and make it clean Open up my eyes to the things unseen Show me how to love like you have loved me Break my heart from what breaks yours Everything I am for your kingdoms cause As I go from Earth to Eternity...

We are on earth to serve, to be God's 'hands and feet' and to see his kingdom come! Its about doing everything we can to spread his love to every corner of the world. We need to knock down the four walls of our churches and get into our towns and cities and schools, and it will spread to the rest of the world.

God is calling his people to go to the last the least and the lost, for some of us that means flying right out to the ends of the earth, or to the third world in Africa, to Asia or America or the capital cities in our home countries. But it starts on your street, with your neighbours, spreading to your schools and work places, villages, towns and cities. What is the need right where you are? What is God calling you to do in this moment?

So lets go out of our comfort zones, lets not just sing the songs in church, proclaim the greatness of our God, and then walk straight past the homeless guy outside our church, ignore the bullied kid at school or spend so much money on expensive clothes and games that there is none left for worthy causes...

Lets open our hearts to what and who God is calling us too.

Lets change the world...