revolutionary | ˌrɛvəˈl(j)uːʃən(ə)ri |
noun
a person who advocates or engages in a dramatic and wide-reaching change in conditions, attitudes, or operation.
Being a wholehearted follower of Jesus means you are a revolutionary.
You're a person who engages in a dramatic change of yourself as God's Spirit transforms you from the inside out. No longer content to live a life of selfish indifference to the sin within that does so much damage to those around you and dishonours the God that made you. Instead, you're seeking to live a life that conforms to the pattern and model of Jesus, for the good of others and to the glory of God.
As we read in 2 Peter 2, we're in a war with the sinful desires of the flesh.
'Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.' (2 Peter 2:11-12)
You're also a person who, with other, advocates from wide-reaching changes to the world around us as we seek for every man, woman and child to come to know, love and serve the Lord Jesus. Unwilling to leave people in eternal peril when you have Jesus' words of eternal life to share.
And it's a war for the hearts and minds of those who've been taken captive as we read in 2 Corinthians 10,
''We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. '(2 Corinthians 10:3-5)
Finally, as a revolutionary we're never content until our goals are achieved. Always working, always engaging, always advocating for what they know to be true and right and beautiful. So for those who seek the world to be revolutionised by Jesus, we continue to speak and pray and love and serve to that end.
And the great thing about being a revolutionary for Jesus is we can strive with hope knowing that his cause will win in the end. We read in 1 John 2:17,
'The world and its desires pass away,
but whoever does the will of God lives for ever.'
So keep going! Seeking Jesus and his Kingdom as he changes the world.
Grace & peace,
Andrew
eNews - 8th September 2023