{"id":3689,"date":"2016-04-12T20:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/?p=3689"},"modified":"2016-10-21T10:16:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T00:16:07","slug":"seek-your-mate-in-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/seek-your-mate-in-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Seek Your Mate in Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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These days many youth are in the church and that is an unspeakable blessing. It can be easy however to forget how many youth are also away from the church. Many times these youth may go without someone asking about them for years. I remember even hearing a terrible story where a particular person was away from the church for so long and had not been contacted. By the time someone tried contacting that person, one of their parents picked up the phone and told the caller that their child had died. They had died and the servant didn\u2019t even know it\u2026 <\/em><\/p>\n

Now if you would care to invest your time, let us consider this topic with a rhyme.<\/p>\n

When was the last time you sought the one and left the ninety nine – instead of being on Facebook all the time?<\/p>\n

How about your prayers at home? Do you speak to God in your room when no one is looking or are you too busy watching shows about cooking?<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get me wrong cooking is great \u2013 but have you taken the time to seek your mate?<\/p>\n

Your mate who was in your Sunday school class all those years ago. Remember? The one you would tease so your other friends you would please. They\u2019re gone now and no one has contacted them for years. Literally years.<\/p>\n

Besides they\u2019re not your responsibility right \u2013 why should you have to fight for your friend\u2019s soul? They\u2019re not interested in Christ anymore you say, but dying on the cross for them you did not pay.<\/p>\n

Why not let God lead you for once instead of relying on your base logic? Do you think Christ can\u2019t reach them anymore because your logic says so? Well moving a mountain with prayer isn\u2019t logical and that happened. Opening someone\u2019s eyes with mud isn\u2019t logical and that happened. Why limit God when you know His power your mind hasn\u2019t fathomed?<\/p>\n

Guard against the love of ease for then only yourself will you please. Real service is difficult. In true love and humility Christ bled. But for you sacrificing pleasure is a dread.<\/p>\n

Arise from laziness and put your hand to the plough \u2013 your friend has been away too long till now.<\/p>\n

Get up and call your mate. If you don\u2019t have their number then look them up on Facebook. If you still can\u2019t get in touch with them then look through old Sunday school lists \u2013 you just might find their number that way.<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t it true when for that pair of shoes you were looking, sadly you didn\u2019t find them, and it led you to inward sooking. Why don\u2019t you pursue your friend as much as you would pursue things that make you look good? You want to adorn your body so you look nice but in the past 5 years, have you, for their soul, even prayed thrice?<\/p>\n

Please don\u2019t look at this like a guilt trip, just be encouraged to wrestle like Jacob when God touched his hip.<\/p>\n

But in all this forget not to pray \u2013 asking that we all may inherit the Kingdom on judgement day.<\/p>\n

Rhymes may be cheesy but it makes writing easy – Read again what is above and take from it what is true, then let God be the one to guide you\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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