He answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. – Matthew 16:2-3 When will we ever get the picture? What are we waiting for? Every single day that passes us by as we wait for a sign, we lose precious time to go and do what we were created to do. Some of us have used the excuse of not being called by God for ministry as an excuse to sit on the sidelines watching other do ministry! Can’t you see what you’re doing? I know you can see the world as it is, the funny thing is, you refuse to do anything about it. A lot of us use prayer as a way to do nothing when in fact, our prayers are supposed to give us the resolve to do something we wouldn’t do otherwise. This passage comes from the story of when people asked Jesus to give them a sign even though he was healing, fixing and preaching throughout Israel. Jesus says it in the next verse– it’s the “sign of Jonah.” (No, it’s not why Christians use the fish as their car logo). Jesus was sacrificed for the life of all and swallowed into the depths of he’ll for three days before hell spit him back out into life. This is the greatest sign and the only sign we’ll ever need to go into life courageously with the power of God pushing us through as the Holy Spirit leads us deeper into the truth of reality. 2,000 years after the fact, even after the greatest sign was already shown to us– the resurrection; we’re just like those Pharisees! Some of us are praying for signs that we’ll never, ever see because we don’t want to see them. We don’t want to be responsible to do something with them. All of us know what’s coming, why are we wasting away asking for more signs? Are you ready accept this as a sign and get up to do something? If yes, then Go!