Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Life In a Bunker - #8234

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

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One night last month, the ice fell and our power went off. Little did we know that our lives would be very different from that moment through the next 10 days. The basics of living suddenly became much harder: keeping warm, keeping fed, staying safe, having light, keeping clean, having water. With power lines and trees down across the area, just maintaining everyday life at our house became like a full-time job. Usually, my life is full of almost non-stop ministry activity, but an inch of ice changed all that for a few days. My world became our powerless home and a yard that looked like a battlefield. Finally, we were able to drive the few miles to town. I had broken out! And suddenly it dawned on me, I’d allowed all our battles of maintaining to give me something I had never experienced before: a bunker mentality.

I’m Ron Hutchcraft. Bunker thinking…you’re so consumed by your own stuff that you miss the bigger world around you. You know, too many people live that way all the time. In spite of the fact that according to the Bible, “He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves” (2 Corinthians 5:15 ). Jesus never meant for His followers to retreat from this world into a spiritual cocoon or a bunker. He said, “My prayer is not that You take them out of the world but that You protect them from the evil one…As You sent Me into the world, I have sent them into the world” (John 17:15 , 18).

Be sure you’re living in the big world God made you for. Be about meeting needs every day. Go on a missions trip. Join Jesus in rescuing lost people. Get out of the bunker. There’s a big world out there!

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This radio program refernces: 2 Corinthians 5:15 ; John 17:15 , 18