God has been speaking to my heart a lot lately about “MAKING DISCIPLES!”  In Matthew 28:19-20 we are given the command to “GO and MAKE DISCIPLES!”  I am not real sure how good we are at this.  I am not real sure at how good I am at this!  I think that I have spent a great deal of my life and energy trying to make Christians – that is, I have worked hard to try and help people see their need for a life changing relationship with Jesus.  I think that I have done okay in helping people get into the relationship.  I am not so sure that I have done such a good job in helping people experience and grow into the life changing part of it.

It’s not that I haven’t tried!  It’s just that in order to make disciples we must, I must spend personal one on one time with people.  I think that the reason Jesus said to GO is because disciples cannot be made in the safty and protection of our own self built kingdoms.  We must get out into the world and experience life with others and share Jesus in these experiences.

I think the best way to MAKE DISCIPLES is by being a disciple that others can learn and be encouraged from!  It is a very big job, but God would not have commanded us to do it – if it were not possible!  I’ve got to go and so do you, because we’ve got work to do, if we re going to bring a smile to His face today!

I am spending a little time outside today – just enjoying creation!  The leaves are changing colors, the sky is a brilliant blue and the sun is warm in the cool and crisp air.  I love to get out and away from everything else.  When I get away I hear and see things that are normally all around me, but that I miss because I am trying to take in to many things at one time.  In this moment I can hear an airplane off in the distance, crows that are really excited about something in the woods, leaves being rustled by a gentle breeze, a squirrel chasing another around and around a pine tree.  And I can see beauty all around me – not the man made kind, but the stuff of God.

Everyday God is saying to you and me:  “I LOVE YOU!”  Our problems is we are just not listening and looking!  I encourage you to take a little time OUTSIDE today and listen for God’s “I LOVE YOU!” to you.  I hope you hear it and and hope that we all take the time to say “I LOVE YOU!” back!

Take some time today to find some place where you can get alone, still and quiet and listen for God’s voice!  Seek to really push out and get rid of all of life’s distractions.  He desires to talk with us!  He wants us to hear Him!  He has some really amazing and cool things that He wants to speak into our lives!  Even if you can only carve out five or ten minutes – take the time today!  By the way you might want to get outside and enjoy the warmth of the sun and crispness of the air!  Hope you hear Him!