Everyday, we wake up and do the daily routine:
Wake up, take a bath, dress up, then go to school/work. While there we
study/work and eat between breaks, then we go home and do what we
should… after that, we sleep and the day repeats. Ah, the simple life,
isn’t it?

But really, are you joking me? We are living in
the best and the worst of times. Not everything is that simple. Let me
ask you this: how many times have you complained? How many times have
you criticized our country’s current state of poverty, our government’s
corruption… the little and the big things?

My point here is: What are you doing? Are you trying to do something to make a change in our country, to act on the things that you complain of?

You forget that there is a war. I’m not talking about war between nations; I’m talking about a spiritual war here. You might think that I’m crazy now, huh? But it is true
– Look around you! 9/11 happened. Virginia Tech. Massacre happened. The
bombing at Glorietta 2 happened. Still not enough? Look at every
street. There are children being abused by their parents. They beg,
starve, and are actually already trying to make a living – children who
could’ve a better future. Let me ask you again: What are you doing?
Perhaps you don’t get my point here. These tragedies happen not only
because of our laziness and unawareness, but also because Satan is in
our midst. You don’t believe me? Then tell me, why is it that, based on
a survey done on 2005, 42% of songs on ten top-selling CDs in 1999
contained sexual content, 41% of which were “very explicit” or “pretty
explicit”?  Why is it that 50% of all Christian men and 20% of all
Christian women are addicted to pornography? The Music Industry is now
falling on his hands, even our doctors! 46 million abortions around the
world took place per year, including countries that are of
anti-abortion. More and more children and women are being abused – 3
children die per day caused by physical injuries, while 1 out of 3
women are abused worldwide. 15 million children die per year because of
starvation and malnutrition. So far, 22 million died from AIDS – A
sexually-transmitted disease. Satan is using our weaknesses and our surroundings against us.

These things weren’t that worse only a hundred years ago.
He is doing every thing he can to destroy us. His plan is to prevent
the message of salvation from reaching the lost, since he can no longer
prevent salvation. Satan has two distinct strategies: one for the lost,
and the other for the saved. I could say that his plan for the lost is
simple - keep people lost and prevent them from seeing the Gospel. For
the saved though, it’s a little more complex. A saved person is a
walking dynamite, as far as Satan and the fallen angels are concerned.
Don’t reason out that there are still the priests who would be able to
manage the disasters around us – even they are still humans. Even they
are tempted; even they sin. Even they, sometimes, lack a hunger for
God. Even they sometimes question faith.

You are part of
the lost if you can’t see what is surrounding you. All of us Believers
are part of the army of God. A soldier couldn’t be part of a war if he
doesn’t know that there’s a war! Also, he would die in a battle field
if s/he isn’t prepared. This is why we should act NOW. It’s already
unfair that Satan had thousands of years to prepare; would you really
waste more time? Would you really let him win?

Of course you’ve heard that ‘God gave us talents so that we could use it for His Kingdom‘;
perhaps you can’t even count how many times you’ve heard it. Well, I
tell you, NOW is the time that we should really use our talents for the
greater good. There are already organizations around the world trying
to make a cause. There are Christian bands trying to reach out to the
youth through music – from Lifehouse’s Everything to Hillsong’s One Way. A Filipino founded Jesus Revolution
here in the Philippines, and it’s slowly touching the hearts of the
people from inside the nation to the other countries. People around you
are trying to reach out and make a difference – but it still isn’t
enough.

I’m now asking you to do something.

I’m
not asking you to do big things like creating a ministry, or something
parallel to that. Just a simple addition to your routine like giving
food to a begging child along Dapitan once a day, dropping a ‘useless’
coin to a Bantay Bata donation can, or trying to have a
personal relationship with God by talking to him for at least an hour
or thirty minutes per day if possible. Little things could be big
things, given that most people do it.

You ask if you can make a difference? You can.