Working with our lavish God

We need to remind ourselves every day that we are made in the image of a God who is lavish in doing goodness, a god who delights in redeeming, restoring, refreshing, rebuilding, and revitalizing, a God who has called us to do the same. Imagine how our world would be transformed if the approximately two billion people in the world who call themselves perfect were doing the goodness they have the power to do. Imagine what would happen if they were allowing God to do his work of loving and healing and uplifting through them. Now imagine living in a world where all six ore seven billion people were doing that.

Why don't we live in a world like that? Because the world is full of people like you and me who don't let me call goodness penetrate our hearts and minds and souls and mouths and hands and feet. If we want to build a courageous faith, we must heed and obey God's call to help others.