Pray for the field. If God calls, then prepare for the field. When it is time, go to the field. A life lost for Christ is a life well spent.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of preparing oneself for a life dedicated to serving God's calling.
Paul Washer's quote highlights the significance of being spiritually prepared to take action in response to God's call. It suggests that dedicating one's life to Christ, even if it may lead to sacrifice, is a noble and meaningful pursuit. The 'field' symbolizes the areas where one serves or spreads their faith, encouraging believers to actively engage in their spiritual journey and mission.
In practice
In a sermon about dedicating one's life to faith and service.
We deal five minutes with a person and their conversion and then we spend the next fifty years trying to disciple a goat into a sheep. I'm not saying this because I'm angry. I'm saying this because countless people are being deceived.
There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.
Those who would send out thousands of questionnaires asking the unconverted what they would desire most in a worship service should realize that ten thousand unanimous opinions of carnal men do not carry the authority of one jot or tittle of God's Word.
The evidence of conversion is not a decision card filled out, it's a life being lived out.
Repentance is simply giving up to stop fighting against God and to stop attempting to gain your own salvation through your own works; to literally give up and fall upon Christ. That is salvation.
When we realize what we were before Christ and what we deserved in that state, it further magnifies the enormity of the gospel for us.
We often can't see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly.
A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ.
Mi fe no descansa en lo que soy, o lo que seré, o como me siento, o lo que sé, sino en lo que Cristo és, en lo que él ha hecho, y en lo que él está haciendo en mí - My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me.
Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.
There are no 'if's' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety - let us pray that we may always know it!
God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their need for him.
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