Limitless Boundaries
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By Carl Lawrence

Historians tell us that the Holy Spirit, the power behind great missionary movements, comes in strong waves. We saw after World War II when ex-GI's, shattered by the need they had seen in Asia for a spiritual Savior, returned to Asia and began what was to become the great age of Faith Missions.

I believe that the 60's generation is so busy accumulating a second car, a third investment folder, and a fourth wife, that it is oblivious to what God is doing around the world, too focused on making sure their social security benefits are safe.

Good News
The good news is that there is a new generation, perhaps a last remnant that the Lord is raising up. They are a people that are not just listening to the Lord's command, "Go into all the World", but are believing and living a life-style that demonstrates their belief that His Great Commission is not a suggestion in case life gets boring, but a command directly from the lips of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Whatever name the sociologists may give this group of young people, they seem to range in age from mid-teens to early 30's.

What makes them different? Why are they dedicating themselves to ride the biggest wave of their young lives-a wave that can be measured somewhere between "surf's up" and "here comes a tsunami".

1. They have only one message. Jesus Christ. Period. NO psycho-babble.
2. They are unashamedly students of the Word of God.
3. They really believe that the Holy Spirit is the Third person of the Trinity, to be appropriate for infilling and anointing.
4. They believe in prayer.
5. They believe, along with another of their predecessors, Brother Andrew, that "there are no closed doors to the Gospel, only people who are too lethargic to break the doors down."

Because of this, our Lord Jesus Christ has gifted them with what so many of those post-World War II GI's had: VISION. They seem to understand what Helen Keller, blind from birth, meant when asked what is worse than being blind and answered, "There is nothing quite so pathetic as having sight but lacking vision, having sight but not seeing." This underscores what Jesus meant when he said, " You have eyes to see but you don't see, and ears to hear but don't hear." These young people are "seeing" and are "hearing".

Vision and Compassion
To hear them sing, (every revival brings its own music) to hear them pray, checking out their life-style, one comes away with a confirmation that they are irreversibly convinced that a vision implies considerably more than visual contact with a disturbing picture or a statistic on the evening news or in the daily paper. There is an intrinsic understanding of God's Word which describes vision and the compassion that ensues, "to feel other's needs like they are our own, to feel the fear of another person, to smell the sweat of someone else's fear."

Actually, we shouldn't be terribly surprised at this. Being men and women of the Bible they have studied Isaiah 6. Here was a man of God, weeping over a nation that had turned its back on this creator. Isaiah fell on his face on the ground and called out, "Woe is me…I am undone. Everything I have done has amounted to zilch, I can't go on."

He then looked up, and what did Isaiah see? Was there the ugly picture of perversion, disease, false gods, the smell of sulfur burning at Sodom. NO. He saw God, high holy and lifted up.

His vision was of God, not of the world.

A new generation
This new generation is one that has or is now falling on its face before God and when it looks up, what does it see? Kosovo, India, Hollywood Blvd., a child's murder trial? No, it sees THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, HIGH AND HOLY AND LIFTED UP.

I believe this new generation realizes that we have to have a vision of Jesus Christ, high, holy and lifted up before it can get a vision of the world. It needs a vision of a dying Savior before it can have a vision of a dying world, and a vision of God's redemption for each one of us, before we can see a vision of a world redeemed.

One of those post-World War II missionaries, Bob Pierce, prayed through tears, "Oh Lord, break my heart with the things that break your heart." And as we kneel at the feet of Jesus, all we will be able to see is Him, and then as He leads us, we will see the world through His eyes. We, along with Him will taste the salt of the world's tears.

It is a moment that we must seize. There is a law that when one has a great spiritual call, sees and hears the great wave, if one does not act on the first impulse, but waits to think it over, the wave gets smaller and smaller, until you might as well lie in your bathtub. A moment unseized often becomes a moment, a call, lost forever.

Vision
Limitless Boundaries has a vision of a risen Christ, weeping for the lost of this world, and through His eyes sees abused young girls in Montana, the materialistic robots of Japan, the lost children of Chiapas, and a clearing vision of more to come.

"But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear; for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it." (Matthew 13:16)