"There's still someone who needs to know Him."

Can we be real for a minute?

Like many, I love music. I’ve shared many of my favorite lyrics here with you all.

But today, I wanna briefly mention a song I do not like. Don’t get me wrong . . . it’s a beautiful message full of beautiful thoughts, full of hope . . .

The song is “Come Jesus Come,” and here’s the thing: I’m not ready.

And for a long time, I thought I was alone in that. Because I would hear people say it in line at the grocery store as they were discussing current events. I would see where people would plead for it on social media. Then this song was released and it climbed straight to the top of the charts.

“Heal every hurt, right every wrong, this world isn’t home, come Jesus come.”

And I get it. I do. My heart is just as broken as the next person's over the darkness and the sorrow and the sin in our world.

However, all I can think about are the people I care about that don’t know Him yet. The people I care about who, unfortunately, don’t wanna know Him yet. The people I don’t know who haven’t encountered Him yet, haven’t yet had a “too good to not believe” moment. And I find myself thinking, “Jesus, not yet. Not today.”

And tomorrow, I’ll say the same.

And the next day, I’ll say the same.

Then one day, I heard something similar spoken in a sermon at AFCC. I wrote the words in my Bible, at the top of the page in Psalm 106.

The pastor stood on that stage and spoke about sitting around outside with some of his buddies. One guy mentioned being ready for Jesus’s return. And the pastor . . . he said two words in reply.

“I’m not.”

Then, addressing the church, he said “There’s still someone who need to know Him.”

That's our topic. That’s what today’s devotion is going to come back to.

There’s still someone who needs to know Him. Maybe, that person is you . . .

In the beginning, God created. In the beginning, God walked (Genesis 3:8).

God walked, and He’s calling us to do the same.

Because He’s a good God. We’re not paint simply spilled on a canvas. We’re His masterpieces. And as the Artist, He’s crafted us with careful intention.

“The Lord will vindicate me; Your love, Lord, endures forever—do not abandon the works of Your hands.”

-Psalm 138:8

But church, I implore you, don’t abandon Him either.

God, the Creator, the Artist, The Potter . . . and we are the clay. Lovingly, He’s used His hand to shape us all into vessels made to glorify His name.

Don’t abandon God. Don’t ignore Him. Stop avoiding Him.

As Justice touched on last week, your unwillingness to be who you’re called to be doesn’t change your calling. You’re still a vessel. But you’ll be an unused one. A vessel with an unfulfilled purpose.

A used vessel, however, . . . pours.

Spirit-filled and appropriately fulfilled, our marching orders match: We are to pour His love into His world, onto His children. We are to take our lives and hand them over to the King to be used for His glory.

Some days, it seems the world is only spinning faster, and it can be dizzying trying to spot the lie.

The world says to glorify yourself. Make a name for yourself. Do what makes you happy. YOLO.

God says, “That’s idolatry, sons and daughters. Glorify Me. Make My Name known. Do what brings Me glory. You will be born again. Just as My Son lives again, so shall you.”

Church, He has soooo much more for us, plans to equip us for these spiritual callings He’s laid upon our lives, but understand that we can’t receive any of it if we are standing still.

“Therefore, if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from His love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, becoming one in spirit and of one mind. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility, value others above yourself, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of others. In your relationship with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to His own advantage; rather, He made Himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the Name that is above every name, that at the Name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

-Philippians 2:1-11

Jesus, the Name above all names . . . and the master of humility.

And what is humility if not this: A willingness to bend to the will of the Father.

Verse 13 continues “For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill His good purpose.”

Marching orders: Make His name known wherever our feet go, always moving, never stilled.

Because church, there’s still someone who needs to know Him.