Monday, January 25, 2010
Monday, January 4, 2010
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
The Feeling Of Relativity.
So where do we go from here? I'm feeling it's most essential to live
like life has never been lived in past days. To grab hold of what you
love and love it so ferociously that your grip could not be weakened
by the blow of a sledge hammer. Sachs said it well, "Death is more
universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives." It is time
to live like there's no tomorrow! I'm truly motivated by my past, and
also by the present of those around me who trudge along begotten tortuous
paths towards some imaginary reconciliation of the last minute with the
next. When did we become so gun shy?
"The pain of discipline weighs ounces, but regret weighs tons." Such a
beautifully true statement; o to learn the discipline to live.
The sharpest of words can't change a man, or can they? Holy Spirit like
you have never moved before, we need you, we are desperate for you!
Can we not bring the heavenly to the hurting? If it be a song, if it be
a word, if it be a text all I ask is that you move. That you set these
steps before us for hearts to hear what we have to say.
Let us labor in prayer for you, seeking you with all that we have, and
on their behalf preparing the way before us.
We cry out to you Abba Father, I cry out to you.
Nothing is impossible for you, you hold my world in your hands.
like life has never been lived in past days. To grab hold of what you
love and love it so ferociously that your grip could not be weakened
by the blow of a sledge hammer. Sachs said it well, "Death is more
universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives." It is time
to live like there's no tomorrow! I'm truly motivated by my past, and
also by the present of those around me who trudge along begotten tortuous
paths towards some imaginary reconciliation of the last minute with the
next. When did we become so gun shy?
"The pain of discipline weighs ounces, but regret weighs tons." Such a
beautifully true statement; o to learn the discipline to live.
The sharpest of words can't change a man, or can they? Holy Spirit like
you have never moved before, we need you, we are desperate for you!
Can we not bring the heavenly to the hurting? If it be a song, if it be
a word, if it be a text all I ask is that you move. That you set these
steps before us for hearts to hear what we have to say.
Let us labor in prayer for you, seeking you with all that we have, and
on their behalf preparing the way before us.
We cry out to you Abba Father, I cry out to you.
Nothing is impossible for you, you hold my world in your hands.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
My Enemies Are Men Like Me
Derek Webb
I have come to give you life
And to show you how to live it
I have come to make things right
To heal their ears and show you how to forgive them
Because I would rather die
I would rather die
I would rather die
Than to take your life
How can I kill the ones I'm supposed to love
My enemies are men like me
I will protest the sword if it's not wielded well
My enemies are men like me
Peace by way of war is like purity by way of fornication
It's like telling someone murder is wrong
And then showing them by way of execution
When justice is bought and sold just like weapons of war
The ones who always pay are the poorest of the poor
I have come to give you life
And to show you how to live it
I have come to make things right
To heal their ears and show you how to forgive them
Because I would rather die
I would rather die
I would rather die
Than to take your life
How can I kill the ones I'm supposed to love
My enemies are men like me
I will protest the sword if it's not wielded well
My enemies are men like me
Peace by way of war is like purity by way of fornication
It's like telling someone murder is wrong
And then showing them by way of execution
When justice is bought and sold just like weapons of war
The ones who always pay are the poorest of the poor
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Devotion.
The weight of separation from God is unbearable to me.
What separates me from him? Sin. For almost all my life
I've second guessed myself, only to wake up today realizing
that that's exactly why God is using me! He uses the weak
to shame the strong! I am just that, I am not perfect.
I never will be, but what I will be is sanctified by Christ
day in and day out as I seek him.
So let us stop doubting ourselves, because what our hearts
are crying is, "God, I do not trust you. I can only do this
if I'm better, or if I could just be a better christian."
There is no such thing as a "better christian," but there
is such a thing as devotion. Trust him, in John 14:13 Jesus
says, "Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that
the Father may be glorified in the Son." He is using us to
make him glorious, as if he needs us but he has chosen us.
Just like the gift of grace is a gift that we cannot earn,
so is this beautiful life he's chosen to use us in. Our
Creator chose us, and he knows that we are not perfect. The
big but here is, SEEK HIM. Be strengthened in the grace that
is in Jesus Christ, as Paul says. So this is it, today let's
begin to trust God the way were intended, with everything.
What separates me from him? Sin. For almost all my life
I've second guessed myself, only to wake up today realizing
that that's exactly why God is using me! He uses the weak
to shame the strong! I am just that, I am not perfect.
I never will be, but what I will be is sanctified by Christ
day in and day out as I seek him.
So let us stop doubting ourselves, because what our hearts
are crying is, "God, I do not trust you. I can only do this
if I'm better, or if I could just be a better christian."
There is no such thing as a "better christian," but there
is such a thing as devotion. Trust him, in John 14:13 Jesus
says, "Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that
the Father may be glorified in the Son." He is using us to
make him glorious, as if he needs us but he has chosen us.
Just like the gift of grace is a gift that we cannot earn,
so is this beautiful life he's chosen to use us in. Our
Creator chose us, and he knows that we are not perfect. The
big but here is, SEEK HIM. Be strengthened in the grace that
is in Jesus Christ, as Paul says. So this is it, today let's
begin to trust God the way were intended, with everything.
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