"Are You INTERRUPTIBLE?"

Are you INTERRUPTIBLE? That is the million dollar question!

For most Christians, being interruptible comes with a price. When the Holy Spirit asked me this question, it radically changed my walk with Christ and gave me a global perspective on true evangelism. What do I mean? The simple answer is that I went from serving myself and meeting my needs to serving others and meeting their needs.

I was transformed from a "bastard" to a "son" of the Living God by the power of the Holy Spirit. I got up out of my tight, little Kindergarten chair and graduated to the PhD. level of the things of God. The selfish, self-centered, arrogant Christian "scales" fell off of my eyes and I became a Believer!

How do you know if you are interruptible? If you have experienced extreme discomfort doing something for someone else that you never thought you would do in a million years; if it totally disrupted your comfort zone; if it was most likely very inconvenient for you and if you didn't know how you were going to solve the problem initially, but you knew you had to do it anyway!

The Lord God was interruptible when His Father tapped Him on the shoulder and directed Him to step out of eternity into time and become a Living Sacrifice for a band of thieves, thugs and perverts who would hate Him and, ultimately, kill Him. Can you imagine having to sacrifice your own life for a group of people that you knew would hate you and were going to kill you?

So you say Brother Nick, "That's an extreme example. It was His destiny! Are we expected to do the same?" In a word, "yes." The Word of God tells us that we are to present our bodies a "living sacrifice" holy and acceptable to God, which is our reasonable service (or the least we could do). (Romans 12:1)

Satan loves that you are interruptible too. He can't wait to distract Christians and Believers from doing the Will of God. Satan's voice is a favorite of millions of Casual Christians. They push the "play" button on Satan's will Monday morning until Saturday night when they hit the "pause" button not the "stop" button. Then, on Sunday morning, they hit the "play" button on the voice of God (or what they think is the voice of God) for two or three hours, hit "stop" and go right back to listening to Satan's channel Sunday evening! 

How do you know if you are interruptible?

Taking a relative into your home with a long term disability even though it will cramp your comfortable lifestyle is being interruptible; driving across town to pick up a friend without a car early in the morning to take him to work for a few months (even on your days off) is being interruptible; giving the vacation money that you have been saving all year to a friend or family member who just lost their home is being interruptible.

Now all of these examples are wonderful gestures and put us in a place of grace, joy and peace. But all these gestures of kindness, benevolence and blessings to mankind mean absolutely nothing if you are not interruptible by the One True God!

One thing is for sure; someone is going to interrupt you! You will know exactly who is interrupting you depending on what they are telling you to do.

Who is calling your name? God or Satan? (Isaiah 43:1)