Green Flag – GO!

Luke 4:7 Therefore, if You will worship before me, all will be Yours.”

“They sold their soul for Rock n Roll.” Not too many of us have not heard that line, and at some point in time looked at some of those bands and just wondered if it applied….I am an old head-banger and I even wondered at times about the music I so loved. Many of us seemingly have fallen into Satan’s traps such as these, even unknowingly many times. We begin to focus on worldly things, then they move to the sole focus, then shifting to idols at some point. We revolve everything around them, and if we become successful by worldly standards, it can easily become worshipping them. The list of these idols is endless and personal. Sports and careers would likely top the list, but you could easily focus on your appearance, place your children above anything else, place doing good deeds above anything else, or even how people view you guiding every decision you make. Anything that you place above your relationship with God is an idol, and breaking the greatest commandment. Deuteronomy 6:5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. 14 You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are all around you 15 (for the Lord your God is a jealous God among you), lest the anger of the Lord your God be aroused against you and destroy you from the face of the earth. God takes VERY seriously the charge of worshipping any idols you place above your worshipping him.

I have found my testimony coming full circle, I am the crack-head returning to the streets preaching the freedom found in Jesus Christ. The trackside ministry doors that have opened to me is so humbling and deep within me, it brings me to tears if I begin to share of God’s mercy and grace in this testimony to him. Racers lives revolve around racing, from training to tracks, the more they excel the more they focus. I am hear to tell them they can do both, to serve Jesus as their God, to use their talents as pulpits to share their faith. The racing community at large is a field ripe for harvest; a field that brings life or death in split seconds, a field that needs the security of salvation any time a helmet goes on our heads. Matthew 9: 36 But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd. 37 Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. 38 Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.” God has placed a vision on my heart for this ministry, and Satan is doing everything he can to distract, to attack, to stop us from even playing any part in God saving one more soul. As we get closer to baptisms in only a few weeks, it will get harder I am sure.

What is the key to changing one’s life, what is the answer past salvation? The words Jesus fought Satan with above; the Bible. It is your only offensive weapon, the only way you can attack and defeat, the only way you begin to understand you can get through this life, is through your time spent in God’s Word. That is the root of my testimony, of a changed life when I began to seek God such as Matthew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. I do not pretend to be a theologian, a lofty preacher, an edjumicated man, I am a simple man that will point you to Jesus Christ for the salvation of your soul, and then encourage you to seek him yourself in his Word to you each day. All I have to do is step back and let God enlighten the hearts just as he did mine, and let him show his child which direction to go and proclaim the freedom found in Jesus Christ. Green flag – GO!