- Lifeguards - 06/04/2016

 

- Lifeguards - 

Lifeguards 06/04/2016

At the beach prayer service this morning I was thinking about how as Christians we are lifeguards. We are watchmen, we are priests. We stand in the gap between the world and God. 

The Lord convicted me and asked me, "If you were a lifeguard sitting in that chair and saw someone drowning in the waves, wouldn't you swim out to rescue them? 

Or would you just sit in your chair and do nothing but yelling instructions to them on how to save themselves?"

Swimming through the waves in order to rescue someone can be dangerous in and of itself. Swimming through the waves requires timing each wave correctly otherwise you will wear yourself out trying to get to the person you're trying to save.

Also, we have to be trained because the "drowning" person will drag us down under the water while trying to save themselves.

I cannot be afraid of risk or danger if I am trying to get someone saved from eternal destruction.

Jesus is asking us to stand in the gap on behalf of the world and jump into the water and take risks in order that someone else might be saved.

Eze 22:30  “And I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the breach before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it – but I did not find one! 

Hab 2:1  I stand at my watch, and station myself on the watch-tower, and wait to see what He says to me, and what to answer when I am reproved.