I wonder what would happen if all the Christians everywhere just dropped what they were doing right now and went to their neighbor's house and introduced ourselves, asking them:

If there was anything we could do for them?
If there was anything we could do to help them?
If there was anything we could do?

What a radical idea that is?

I wonder what would happen in the Church today if everyone went to church totally caring and thinking about others. Other peoples needs consuming their minds and hearts?

I wonder what would happen in the Church today if we all gave up our own goals and ambitions and sought the goals and ambitions of our brothers and sisters.

I wonder what would happen in the Church today if we tried to meet the need of someone else every time we went to Church.

I wonder what would happen in the Church today if no one thought of themselves and placed others needs before their own.

O.K., I'm through wondering, back to reality, unfortuneately.

You see, once we know who we are, we don't have to prove it to anyone else. We don't have to seek everyone's approval and everyone's attention. I'm sure that a lot of ministries were born of the need for approval, the need for attention, and that is a very sad thought, howbeit, true in some respects.

If you know God as He knows you, you are finished with the human craving of attention and approval. The score has been settled and He won. You know your own identity and you don't have to get it from someone or something else.

You know who you are, why you are and who He is in you. He has spoken to you personally, your own language between you and the Father, is on solid ground. The ABC's have been absorbed and you are writing your own life book. You are learning to focus the whole of your attention on Christ. Everything has now come into harmony with the realization of whose you are, no more struggle, no more work, there is a rest now, a peace now, and you know that you know who you are.

All the questions have been answered. All the doubt and confusion swept away. All the jealousy and envy of others is gone, washed by the true water of the Word in our identity IN CHRIST. Now, you have an answer for those who would ask of your Hope. You have asked yourselves the same questions you are now being asked to answer by others.

Now you can tell others what the answers are, you have searched them out, you know them front and back, you've learned them like you've learned your ABC's, they define you and your New Life. They tell you how to live and how to die. They are the MILK, and the nutrients we have digested over and over again until they have become a very part of our being. The true spiritual MILK which makes us grow up into Him in all things. Having our senses honed to a fine edge sword.