Kingdom 104: Failing to Know Your Kingdom Assignment Brings Boredom
First, let's discuss the meaning of Bored: To weary by being dull or uninterested, to move forward slowly but steadily, as if by boring
Boring: A tiresome or dull person or thing
Boredom: The condition of being bored or uninterested
Whether you realize it or not, I have just described religious leaders of today's church denominations. These are the individuals that must present their congregation--audience--with a new subject every Sunday. They feel the need to present a new religious program in order for their ministry to grow. All this is because they haven't discovered their purpose and assignment in the Kingdom. “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
“So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
When you know your purpose and specifically your assignment while you are here on earth, you will never become bored. Your life will never be boring. You will be driven with a passion to advance in that assignment. My wife Arlene and I can testify to that! We are living examples of being driven by our assignment. Now I ask, how can you know your purpose and assignment? It is very simple really: by doing what Christ stated. "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you." First you must learn to listen to the Holy Spirit and follow instructions. Keep this in mind, while He was on earth, Jesus never became bored or boring to others. He listened to His Father and stayed on His assignment. He modeled perfection in being obedient to God's Word. "And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him.”
Far too often, I read of leaders who claim to be representatives of their brand of gospel make a statement such as "a breakthrough is coming for you". Never did Jesus say that a breakthrough was being given. That is not a Kingdom mindset. All you have to do is to ask and believe as an obedient Kingdom citizen. Anything else is religion. The only breakthrough people need is a breakthrough in their carnal soulish nature to obedience and faith in God's Word! When you read the Gospels, you will know that Jesus was too busy to be bored or boring. And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people. Then His fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who were demon-possessed, epileptics, and paralytics; and He healed them. Great multitudes followed Him—from Galilee, and from Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan. He was spreading the Kingdom message and its culture everywhere He went.
Jesus never deviated from the assignment for which His Father commissioned Him. He did ask His Father to re-consider, but then He realized not His Will but the Father's. He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.”...Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink it, Your will be done.”... So He left them, went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.
Those who have a religious mindset feel the need to have a new message or program every time they come together. They feel without something "fresh" and unheard before, they aren't "earning their keep" and will lose their congregation and ultimately their job. But the Lord Jesus followed and stayed on focus on the Kingdom message. What is the purpose of the Kingdom message? It is to restore those who are lost back to their rightful place in the Kingdom. The Kingdom message is to grow and mature disciples to spread His Kingdom gospel to all the world. Everything else is only a distraction. We need to wear blinders if necessary, and always keep our eyes on God's Message of Kingdom of God.
Remember, your faith in the King's Word is your foundation for eternal life and for your purpose while on this earth.
Matthew 6:25-34 John 8:29 Matthew 7:7-8; 4:23-25; 26:39, 42, 44
~~W.R. Luchie
Boring: A tiresome or dull person or thing
Boredom: The condition of being bored or uninterested
Whether you realize it or not, I have just described religious leaders of today's church denominations. These are the individuals that must present their congregation--audience--with a new subject every Sunday. They feel the need to present a new religious program in order for their ministry to grow. All this is because they haven't discovered their purpose and assignment in the Kingdom. “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
“So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
When you know your purpose and specifically your assignment while you are here on earth, you will never become bored. Your life will never be boring. You will be driven with a passion to advance in that assignment. My wife Arlene and I can testify to that! We are living examples of being driven by our assignment. Now I ask, how can you know your purpose and assignment? It is very simple really: by doing what Christ stated. "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you." First you must learn to listen to the Holy Spirit and follow instructions. Keep this in mind, while He was on earth, Jesus never became bored or boring to others. He listened to His Father and stayed on His assignment. He modeled perfection in being obedient to God's Word. "And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him.”
Far too often, I read of leaders who claim to be representatives of their brand of gospel make a statement such as "a breakthrough is coming for you". Never did Jesus say that a breakthrough was being given. That is not a Kingdom mindset. All you have to do is to ask and believe as an obedient Kingdom citizen. Anything else is religion. The only breakthrough people need is a breakthrough in their carnal soulish nature to obedience and faith in God's Word! When you read the Gospels, you will know that Jesus was too busy to be bored or boring. And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people. Then His fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who were demon-possessed, epileptics, and paralytics; and He healed them. Great multitudes followed Him—from Galilee, and from Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan. He was spreading the Kingdom message and its culture everywhere He went.
Jesus never deviated from the assignment for which His Father commissioned Him. He did ask His Father to re-consider, but then He realized not His Will but the Father's. He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.”...Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink it, Your will be done.”... So He left them, went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.
Those who have a religious mindset feel the need to have a new message or program every time they come together. They feel without something "fresh" and unheard before, they aren't "earning their keep" and will lose their congregation and ultimately their job. But the Lord Jesus followed and stayed on focus on the Kingdom message. What is the purpose of the Kingdom message? It is to restore those who are lost back to their rightful place in the Kingdom. The Kingdom message is to grow and mature disciples to spread His Kingdom gospel to all the world. Everything else is only a distraction. We need to wear blinders if necessary, and always keep our eyes on God's Message of Kingdom of God.
Remember, your faith in the King's Word is your foundation for eternal life and for your purpose while on this earth.
Matthew 6:25-34 John 8:29 Matthew 7:7-8; 4:23-25; 26:39, 42, 44
~~W.R. Luchie
