Show Me The Way

December 15, 2008

by Duane Careb

co-founder RVchurchesUSA
Read 2Cor 5: 20-21

Recently I watched one of my all-time favorite movies featured during the Christmas season – “It’s A Wonderful Life” with Jimmy Stewart. The premise of the movie is that we ALL have had an impact on people during our life – without exception! You simply must see this film if you haven’t already.

Uncle Charlie, the town drunk, works for George Bailey (Stewart) – who owns the Bedford Falls Savings and Loan – looses a large deposit and therefore forces Bailey into bankruptcy (sound familiar in these present days?). Bailey is now in big financial trouble. It’s driven him to the brink of despair and as he sits in Martini’s bar, he cries out to God saying, “If you are real …. show me the way!” Remembering that Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore) – the miserly and mean banker in town- said George was “… worth more dead than alive”, he then heads for the nearest bridge to end his life.

Can you identify with that scene? The reality of it? The hopelessness of it? Ever wonder if your life has been worthy or impact full to others? Read on ….

Evidently the prayers of George’s family and friends reach Heaven where the angel Clarence is dispatched to intercede and shows him the alternate universe that would have been had he never existed. It’s something each and every one of us should try to do – step outside ourselves and realize just what our contributions can be.

George wishes he was never born in the first place. Zap! Clarence grants his wish and after experiencing many flashbacks seeing all the people whose lives have been touched by George and the difference he has made to the community, George cries out, “I want to live again!”  Double Zap! Clarence transforms Bailey back to Bedford Falls – still on the brink of bankruptcy – with new hope and appreciation for the impact his life has in fact made on others.

The townsfolk respond to a call to come along the Bailey family and rescue them from their financial woes. Clarence, of course, gets his wings after all!

So How can we apply this plot to our lives today?

Consider RVchurchesUSA’s foundation verse 2Cor 5:20-21 “Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God”.

That’s God’s vision, mission and strategy for each of us.

Our purpose is to fulfill His mission by identifying RV sites (campgrounds/resorts/parks) that offer nondenominational church services and/or Bible studies across the USA and link the RV Community to those sites. And our mission is encourage and equip owners of RV campgrounds/resorts/parks across the USA desiring to support nondenominational church services and/or Bible studies on-site; and become a resource for the RV Community seeking church services or Bible study opportunities as they travel.

So there you have it!  Let’s partner together with the Lord in impacting live for Christ – one heart at a time. Spread the word about RVchurchesUSA so we can serve the RV Community where ever they call “home”.

Lord, “show me the way”. It is, indeed, A Wonderful Life! Amen.

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