What do I mean by “Riding the TITLE Wave”? Well, this is just a pet peeve button of mine that I have had pushed quite a few times over the past few months…and not just in Church. I have never been one to keep score of wrongs, only to keep mental notes of how NOT act as a Christian.
Join me for a little walk in my head, okay? A couple of months ago, I took a stroll down to one of our wonderful administration offices (won’t say if its City or County) attempting to make a change on an account of ours with completed form in hand. I was greeted by a new, very stoic matter-of-fact person who basically let me know by her actions that she wasn’t being paid enough to expend more time than a payment entry on me. She took my form back to a lady behind her whom I had dealt with for 16 years, obviously who had been promoted. Little Miss Stoic sashayed back and informed me that her “supervisor” said I would have to get another form filled out by my husband making this request because my name was not the only one on the account. REALLY?! So I’m thinking to myself, “If I was making a payment (like I’ve done for 16 years without him present) you would take it, but because I’m asking for a draft from a different bank account we changed to I have to get permission from my husband? I JUST want to pay you, that’s all.” “Yeah, das right,” says Little Miss Stoic, while sucking through her teeth and examining her fake nails with that “NEXT?!” look on her face. The Lady I had dealt with for over 16 years (whom I had done multiple favors for) just sat with a smirk on her face. Guess she doesn’t recognize me now since her promotion to such a high-and-lifted-up position of a dollar more on the hour. I just took the form, leaving for a second time WITHOUT my problem being fixed.
Later that week, I received a call from a very spiritual customer. Right off the bat, she began to tell me that “the Lord told me I am to purchase a home” in such and such neighborhood, and she wanted the best home available because she was “blessed and highly favored of God.” When I took her name, she made sure that I wrote down “Prophetess” at the front of it. I’m NOT joking! Unfortunately, the “Prophetess” failed to tell me that she had squeezed the very life out of her credit rating and couldn’t qualify to buy a Barbie Dream Home for $39.95! TITLES! UGH!
I even see this same phenomenon in church. Give someone a title and it makes them feel EN-titled and exempt from any job description outside their own! Sure, God’s people are SUPPOSED to be blessed, HOWEVER, they are SUPPOSED to live lives that bring glory to God in turn! Unfortunately, all we want to hear about is the blessing and perks to US. We take our title as “Christian” to mean that we are entitled to God’s Kingdom in its entirety, but we don’t want to carry the Cross of servanthood and self-sacrifice it requires. Away with the “I’m not over that project so I don’t want to have anything to do with it,” mentality! We have to get over ourselves if we ever expect God to really use us. It’s no wonder He said in His Word, “the harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few…” Luke 10:2
I believe with all my heart
that a new generation of laborers is rising up to take their place, not only in the Church, but also in the Community. They are the GIANTS of our time who are ready to turn their world upside down with Truth, servanthood, integrity and high moral example. “…These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;…saying that there is another king, one Jesus” Acts 17:6-7. These GIANTS do not need titles to validate their position with their Lord! Their philosophy will be this: “Some people see the glass half-empty, some see it as half-full, we simply see a glass of water and start looking for someone who is thirsty.” They are not satisfied to simply ride the Title wave, they want to start a Tsunami of Truth! “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.” Rev 12:11. I say to these GIANTS: “GO!”