yowzers.
so the family/chunk of Christ's Body- the solid, God-followin, goonie, kid-lovin awesome peeps @ coyote totally surprised me with an adios missouri hola texas and who but God knows where beyond that party tonight.
it was sweet.
dinner, angel food cake/strawberries, and quite possibly one of the tightest evenings ever...worship around a bonfire next to a lake under God's open expanse, and glow in the dark frisbee in the rain later in the night...ahh the sweet life my friends.
pretty good. feeling pretty great and ready for Texas, as hard as it is to leave this chunk o' Heaven on earth.
i'm pumped to see what God's got in store for so many of us in this transition phase. keep walking by God's sight, even if you can only see far enough ahead of you to take 1 tiny step...keep trusting Him with all your hearts and know that He sees everything in front of you, always has.
it's gonna be rockin.
our God is good. praise Him for yesterday, today and forever.
Jeremiah 18
At the Potter's House
1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD : 2 "Go down to the potter's house, and there I will give you my message." 3 So I went down to the potter's house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 4 But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.
5 Then the word of the LORD came to me: 6 "O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does?" declares the LORD. "Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand..."
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Godly fire
praise God for trial seasons. they can be so excruciating and bewildering but my o my are they worth it and beautiful, even if only in hindsight! He is so faithful to cleanse us and prune us; to burn off all the cumbersome sin and rebellion in us that only weighs us down & keeps us from entering into His presence more richly and deeply.
glory to our King for seasons of trying and refining.
here's some things i have only begun to learn and am so grateful God has shown so many of us as we have walked alongside Him in this time of burning of the dross:
random quotes...all from leonard ravenhill-
"The only time you can really say that 'Christ is all I need,' is when Christ is all you have."
"The Bible is either absolute, or it's obsolete."
"How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?"
"If a Christian is not having tribulation in the world, there's something wrong!"
"Church unity comes from corporate humility."
"You can have all of your doctrines right, yet still not have the presence of God."
"A true shepherd leads the way. He does not merely point the way."
"Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?"
"Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age."
"We must do what we can do for God, before He will give us the power to do what we
can't do."
"You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict."
glory to our King for seasons of trying and refining.
here's some things i have only begun to learn and am so grateful God has shown so many of us as we have walked alongside Him in this time of burning of the dross:
random quotes...all from leonard ravenhill-
"The only time you can really say that 'Christ is all I need,' is when Christ is all you have."
"The Bible is either absolute, or it's obsolete."
"How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?"
"If a Christian is not having tribulation in the world, there's something wrong!"
"Church unity comes from corporate humility."
"You can have all of your doctrines right, yet still not have the presence of God."
"A true shepherd leads the way. He does not merely point the way."
"Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?"
"Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age."
"We must do what we can do for God, before He will give us the power to do what we
can't do."
"You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict."
Brain/Heart Haze
so it would seem that my head is improperly attached presently. seriously. it be bad. i forget i'm driving and just end up @ a destination, or decide it'd be more fruitful to look @ stars as i drive instead of the other innocent bystanders or local wildlife. (can i confess something here and now? i hit a puppie the other night when i was driving a van with some of the kiddos. seriously people. a puppie. oh man. i lost some tears on that one. i mean, i know, i know, every male i ever knew tells me to not swerve and just hit whatever comes your way on the road while operating a motor vehicle. but seriously guys, try telling the frog or cat or blue jay or puppie that, say, has been pancaked by sarah marie jensen on highway 124 on her way to work. off the subject, but thanks for listening to my confessions...)
i forget to do things @ work. i have never struggled so much with remembering major life details, much less small, mundane details. i forget entire conversations i apprently have had with others, etc.!
usually when i get this brain-fog it means that i need some new surroundings, new challenges, new everything but God so that i get back to focusing on just Him and to be reminded He's the Ultimate, the only thing that stays the same. this riding in the ruts and going through the motions is no good after a while.
i don't know where my thoughts are, scattered all over the place i suppose. in the greek, i know that peace = "to set @ one again" and i want to be back to that glorious place so bad. reckon that un-peace = thoughts are scattered all over the place. which = God is not getting the worship and focus in my life that His glory alone demands & deserves.
my heart feels tired and bewildered yet still has this lamp blazing in my soul somewhere, this spot of light and hope for that distant place where God already has been and will be with me once i am there- the future.
there's so many could be's and should be's. so many desires ready to just give up. to go crawl into some corner and be left alone to die.
when will my eyes see what my heart has whispered of and what God has authoritatively spoken of for so long?
when will this new, massive, God-given hole for a ministry partner/best bud/co-Word studier/laughing,stupid,goofy pal/leader/protector be in my life?
will i ever get some training or honest butt-kicking of technique with the singing/guitar thing for more than just random sessions around a campfire or alone with just me and God?
will i ever get to help lead a youth group and get to take them on overseas short-term trips so they can come back to america- their perspective forever changed? the answer to all these is, in perfect time.
i lay all this down and say burn it off me God if it's not of You.
"test me and know my anxious thoughts, see if there's anything in me short of everlasting and eternal" God.
let only what's rooted in You remain.
i forget to do things @ work. i have never struggled so much with remembering major life details, much less small, mundane details. i forget entire conversations i apprently have had with others, etc.!
usually when i get this brain-fog it means that i need some new surroundings, new challenges, new everything but God so that i get back to focusing on just Him and to be reminded He's the Ultimate, the only thing that stays the same. this riding in the ruts and going through the motions is no good after a while.
i don't know where my thoughts are, scattered all over the place i suppose. in the greek, i know that peace = "to set @ one again" and i want to be back to that glorious place so bad. reckon that un-peace = thoughts are scattered all over the place. which = God is not getting the worship and focus in my life that His glory alone demands & deserves.
my heart feels tired and bewildered yet still has this lamp blazing in my soul somewhere, this spot of light and hope for that distant place where God already has been and will be with me once i am there- the future.
there's so many could be's and should be's. so many desires ready to just give up. to go crawl into some corner and be left alone to die.
when will my eyes see what my heart has whispered of and what God has authoritatively spoken of for so long?
when will this new, massive, God-given hole for a ministry partner/best bud/co-Word studier/laughing,stupid,goofy pal/leader/protector be in my life?
will i ever get some training or honest butt-kicking of technique with the singing/guitar thing for more than just random sessions around a campfire or alone with just me and God?
will i ever get to help lead a youth group and get to take them on overseas short-term trips so they can come back to america- their perspective forever changed? the answer to all these is, in perfect time.
i lay all this down and say burn it off me God if it's not of You.
"test me and know my anxious thoughts, see if there's anything in me short of everlasting and eternal" God.
let only what's rooted in You remain.
Hurtin for some new surroundings
for real, i want to get to tyler, tx in june.
bad.
real bad.
as of now i have about 1/8th of the necessary support raised financially, which honestly is tight considering i just started like a month ago. insane that i only have like 3 more weeks for the rest though, huh? thanks so much for what's happened already my God. as far as prayer support, i can feel that, too. thanks to all you guys interceeding and holding me up. prayer is some strong stuff.
seems this is one of those times i ask myself what most any american would.
now wouldn't this whole needing money deal have been easier if you would have just gone with the typical, bachelor's degree-holdin, floating with the current, the pattern of this world, and made the bucks so you could have saved some moo-la?
but snap, workin with youth full time, doing what i never once in over two years dreaded showing up to work for, is soooo much better than a 9-5 prison that is cushy and expected.
all that to say - puleeeeze... God is way bigger than all these measly paper dollar bills. bigger than any dillema any of us are allowed by God to face, as He works it for good. i am just learning to walk that fine line b/t stepping out in faith after hearing His call to do so despite my tired/confused heart vs. seeing obstacles as "doors shut by God" ya know?
i have just gotten comfortable here. too comfortable. i am still being challenged, don't get me wrong. but i can feel my spirit begging for some NEW challenges for a while.
anyway, these are the times when fasting and prayer gets us centered and back on the Prize, the Pupose, the Vision, the Center. all these questions only draw us closer to His side...which is His major motivation in a lot of everything He does, huh?
anyhoo- praise God for hope, for "patient expectation" as His greek says. oh yes. expecting this season to not be permanent. to not make my home here. to refuse to focus on the problems and to instead meditate on the only Solution, the Ultimate Beginning and End. Psalm 139 tells me that God's wrapped Himself around us, surrounded us front and back.
ah, to know with all i got that my only permanent comfort is God.
it's just me and Him. and that's far more than o.k.
bad.
real bad.
as of now i have about 1/8th of the necessary support raised financially, which honestly is tight considering i just started like a month ago. insane that i only have like 3 more weeks for the rest though, huh? thanks so much for what's happened already my God. as far as prayer support, i can feel that, too. thanks to all you guys interceeding and holding me up. prayer is some strong stuff.
seems this is one of those times i ask myself what most any american would.
now wouldn't this whole needing money deal have been easier if you would have just gone with the typical, bachelor's degree-holdin, floating with the current, the pattern of this world, and made the bucks so you could have saved some moo-la?
but snap, workin with youth full time, doing what i never once in over two years dreaded showing up to work for, is soooo much better than a 9-5 prison that is cushy and expected.
all that to say - puleeeeze... God is way bigger than all these measly paper dollar bills. bigger than any dillema any of us are allowed by God to face, as He works it for good. i am just learning to walk that fine line b/t stepping out in faith after hearing His call to do so despite my tired/confused heart vs. seeing obstacles as "doors shut by God" ya know?
i have just gotten comfortable here. too comfortable. i am still being challenged, don't get me wrong. but i can feel my spirit begging for some NEW challenges for a while.
anyway, these are the times when fasting and prayer gets us centered and back on the Prize, the Pupose, the Vision, the Center. all these questions only draw us closer to His side...which is His major motivation in a lot of everything He does, huh?
anyhoo- praise God for hope, for "patient expectation" as His greek says. oh yes. expecting this season to not be permanent. to not make my home here. to refuse to focus on the problems and to instead meditate on the only Solution, the Ultimate Beginning and End. Psalm 139 tells me that God's wrapped Himself around us, surrounded us front and back.
ah, to know with all i got that my only permanent comfort is God.
it's just me and Him. and that's far more than o.k.
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Beautiful Brokenness
Phil. 3:1-16, Col. 1:28-29
"When we've faced our failures head on and recognized the futility of depending on anything else but God, we're finally ready to be used by God. As broken people we know that God loves us simply for who we are."
We did nothing to deserve this ultimate Love. We can do nothing to earn more of it or to keep it. Even when we do not love Him some days of the week with all we got or live in ways man has deemed "worthy" of being loved back, this Love is still there, being offered with no strings attached. Period.
"Evidence of brokenness includes the freedom to be vulnerable, th share weakness, to give others credit and to receive correction. A broken person is ready to acknowledge and repent of sin and to forgive the sin of others. In a broken life there is no room for self-righteous striving, self-centered individualism, self-serving greed, or self-defeating perfectionism. Brokenness is a doorway through which the ressurrection life of Jesus comes into our hearts. How can you become more fully dependent on God? Ask the Holy Spirit to show you." Ask Him to show ya how to take those amazing promises and truths in the Word and make them real in your every-day, minute by minute life. He will. He totally will!
-quotes by some random YWAM staffer
As one season of ministry in this chica's life will soon be wrapped up and another will begin per God's request; I have been realizing how much God has used the most random, odd, unexplainable circumstances to break me of all my self-dependent striving, all my perfectionist christian pride, all my self-reliance/independence, etc. It's insane how being around hurting, burdened, confused kids can reveal in me how un-Christlike my love can be at times. I had no stinkin clue how much I loved people based on how much they'd appreciate it or reciprocate it back.
Shnikeys. I mean, isn't the whole idea of unconditional love, just that...that we dish it out without forethought or self-thought, without conditions or comfort...we spill it out, our whole selves up on the alter simply because Jesus has enabled us, given us the supernatural strength to do the impossible and unthinkable. If we'd only believe and choose to focus on Him. Man, if we keep our eyes on the Prize, we can love and forget serving ourselves and live these incredible, satisfied, full lives that just offer this world all they ever needed.
Good life. "It's finished"...that we may only be granted the grace to "simply live up to what we have already attained" my friends.
"When we've faced our failures head on and recognized the futility of depending on anything else but God, we're finally ready to be used by God. As broken people we know that God loves us simply for who we are."
We did nothing to deserve this ultimate Love. We can do nothing to earn more of it or to keep it. Even when we do not love Him some days of the week with all we got or live in ways man has deemed "worthy" of being loved back, this Love is still there, being offered with no strings attached. Period.
"Evidence of brokenness includes the freedom to be vulnerable, th share weakness, to give others credit and to receive correction. A broken person is ready to acknowledge and repent of sin and to forgive the sin of others. In a broken life there is no room for self-righteous striving, self-centered individualism, self-serving greed, or self-defeating perfectionism. Brokenness is a doorway through which the ressurrection life of Jesus comes into our hearts. How can you become more fully dependent on God? Ask the Holy Spirit to show you." Ask Him to show ya how to take those amazing promises and truths in the Word and make them real in your every-day, minute by minute life. He will. He totally will!
-quotes by some random YWAM staffer
As one season of ministry in this chica's life will soon be wrapped up and another will begin per God's request; I have been realizing how much God has used the most random, odd, unexplainable circumstances to break me of all my self-dependent striving, all my perfectionist christian pride, all my self-reliance/independence, etc. It's insane how being around hurting, burdened, confused kids can reveal in me how un-Christlike my love can be at times. I had no stinkin clue how much I loved people based on how much they'd appreciate it or reciprocate it back.
Shnikeys. I mean, isn't the whole idea of unconditional love, just that...that we dish it out without forethought or self-thought, without conditions or comfort...we spill it out, our whole selves up on the alter simply because Jesus has enabled us, given us the supernatural strength to do the impossible and unthinkable. If we'd only believe and choose to focus on Him. Man, if we keep our eyes on the Prize, we can love and forget serving ourselves and live these incredible, satisfied, full lives that just offer this world all they ever needed.
Good life. "It's finished"...that we may only be granted the grace to "simply live up to what we have already attained" my friends.
Monday, May 22, 2006
Vigilante Victory
T.P.ing is straight-up glorious.
I forgot the beauty of wrapping one's, say buddy that graduated from high school yesterday's automobile in crisp white ribbons of toilet paper. I miss this fine art. I may have to revive this joyous pastime and participate regularly in it once again ladies and gentlemen...
sorry buddie ol pal...looks like we finally got ya.
I forgot the beauty of wrapping one's, say buddy that graduated from high school yesterday's automobile in crisp white ribbons of toilet paper. I miss this fine art. I may have to revive this joyous pastime and participate regularly in it once again ladies and gentlemen...
sorry buddie ol pal...looks like we finally got ya.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
No Skimming
It's odd how watching movies and reading books serve as escapes from real life. we all too often forget that life isn't just a skimming or revealing of only the high points. it's that in-between the lines and all the minutes and hours of the day-in, day-out that either serve God or serve to drag us down. they can teach us to see God as sovreign over it all equally. i have learned that the hum-drum as well as the thrilling, the excruciating and the comfortable are all filtered through the love-filter of our King. ahhhh, and it's good stuff. no minute, no experience, no brush with another human wasted.
Thursday, May 18, 2006
All Other Ground is Sinking Sand
O.K., so basically if I want to be successful according to the "pattern of this world" I will have "security", which typically = independence. Something I can @ least feel like I achieved by myself and can hold onto by myself. Which pretty much equates to me being able to do life and not need to trust in God much. I can take care of myself. I can have lottsa moo-la in the bank so that no matter what comes my way, I won't have issues or dillemas that need a solution from Someone outside myself. I will avoid pain and challenging relationships by only hanging out with those that I find comfortable and trustworthy. I avoid confrontation and reality checks because love = always smiling and non-confrontational interaction, for the sake of not wanting to "step on anyone's toes". It may be rare to have honesty and "speaking the truth in love" so that my bros and sis' and I can become more like our Jesus and throw off all the things that tangle up our feet and trip us.
Anyway, all that to say- God has a magnificent way of taking away all the fake, sand-foundations so that I learn to stand on the one true Rock alone. He is so wild and untameable and unpredictable oftentimes. And if we're honest with ourselves- the very actions of our God in this vapor of a lifetime, that @ times seem to our human brains to be "mean" or "heartless" are the very things that prove God's brave love for you and I.
Without the torents of Love slamming into our false foundations and causing us to desire Someone stronger, we'd be little more than men and women content in our homes built on sand. A home built on sand is by no means a home. And because of the Love that drives all He does, God won't have any of that fake, man-made, shallow, dillusional, temporary comfort and ease stuff.
TRUE life is found "Through living by faith, putting others first and consistently finding joy in giving to others in need ..."
Ranjan Marwah
Anyway, all that to say- God has a magnificent way of taking away all the fake, sand-foundations so that I learn to stand on the one true Rock alone. He is so wild and untameable and unpredictable oftentimes. And if we're honest with ourselves- the very actions of our God in this vapor of a lifetime, that @ times seem to our human brains to be "mean" or "heartless" are the very things that prove God's brave love for you and I.
Without the torents of Love slamming into our false foundations and causing us to desire Someone stronger, we'd be little more than men and women content in our homes built on sand. A home built on sand is by no means a home. And because of the Love that drives all He does, God won't have any of that fake, man-made, shallow, dillusional, temporary comfort and ease stuff.
TRUE life is found "Through living by faith, putting others first and consistently finding joy in giving to others in need ..."
Ranjan Marwah
You Know What You Need to Do
I'm gonna be honest with ya, today is a sarah is scared day.
Leaving these kids, friends, and spiritual family...basically this entire current ministry location and packing up and truckin it to Texas with like less than 10% of my support raised thus far is nutso. There's no cute, pretty, clear explanation. I have been getting tears in my eyes off and on as I'm around these kiddos this afternoon (some I have seen grow up the past couple years) and am asking myself why I'm crazy enough to leave a place that has become part of my home the past like 1/4th of my life. I got nothing to stand on right now but faith in God. I'm learning that faith is not so much believing God for stuff as it is believing God for Himself, that He's Who He says He is, ya know? As my co-worker buddy Chris just said to me "You know what you need to do...just shut your pie hole and do it."
Leaving these kids, friends, and spiritual family...basically this entire current ministry location and packing up and truckin it to Texas with like less than 10% of my support raised thus far is nutso. There's no cute, pretty, clear explanation. I have been getting tears in my eyes off and on as I'm around these kiddos this afternoon (some I have seen grow up the past couple years) and am asking myself why I'm crazy enough to leave a place that has become part of my home the past like 1/4th of my life. I got nothing to stand on right now but faith in God. I'm learning that faith is not so much believing God for stuff as it is believing God for Himself, that He's Who He says He is, ya know? As my co-worker buddy Chris just said to me "You know what you need to do...just shut your pie hole and do it."
Monday, May 15, 2006
Hearing the Silence
Read this tonight...an excerpt from U2's Bono in a new book, "Bono: In conversation with Michka Assayas":
Bono's dad (an ex-catholic who lost his faith): "It's a one way conversation... you seem to hear something back from the silence!"
Bono: "that's true, I do.... I hear it in some sort of instinctive way, I feel a response to a prayer, or I feel led in a direction. Or if I'm studying the Scriptures, they become alive in an odd way, and they make sense to the moment I'm in, they're no longer a historical document."
Seems to me that after you've decided to "take up your cross and follow" Jesus for a while, God turns up that ol' refining fire a few degrees. I think one of the descriptives for the greek word "trial" is "re-form". The more pliable, willing, and soft the clay, the easier it is to re-form I reckon. Just that "letting go" and trusting if you can't see all the details and answers just now, God does and that's all the answer we ever really needed anyway.
And with trials, human nature squirms and kicks and screams. Fire and re-forming aren't exactly the flesh's best ideas at achieving it's beloved controlable, explainable, relaxing, and comfortable environment.
And with trials comes doubts and fears and questioning and steps backwards/disengaging in my relationship with God typically. Now all the disengaging and doubts and searching mind you, are only on my end of things. I am the one running off, hiding in fear and confusion and hurt with my fig leaves- ashamed of nakedness all the sudden b/c I am no longer focused on His amazing face and on who God alone can tell me I am- beautiful and priceless.
I am the one stepping away in some way, both subconsciously and consciously perhaps. Even still, God's love is not swayed. Our Rock is our Rock. Period. And when He seems silent or different or like He's holding out on me or somethin...well, I'm finding it is me who has run away from Him in some way(s) and then yelling "where did you go, God?" as a reaction to hardship and adversity that He has allowed in the first place FOR MY OWN GOOD.
As it turns out, though- in the very hardship He designs and "works for good" in the end, He never leaves our side. Seems like a rotten sham on God's part if you ask me. You create these human things and allow pain in their lives to remind the self-centered, forgetful creatures that they need You, yet You know full-well that You will have to go through the trial, too. Because You promised to stay by their side through it ALL.
I'm thinkin Bono's on to something. When we run and hide, when I choose to think about anything more than my God and therefore worship it, when I choose fluffy and fake over the sometimes hard Truth, when I want answers and a clean-cut, explainable, black and white kinda god who is no God at all, well- it seems He is still there anyway. Waiting to make the Word breathe in and out and speak. Able to move and direct and nurture my tired, confused heart. Able to make even me hear His glorious silence.
Bono's dad (an ex-catholic who lost his faith): "It's a one way conversation... you seem to hear something back from the silence!"
Bono: "that's true, I do.... I hear it in some sort of instinctive way, I feel a response to a prayer, or I feel led in a direction. Or if I'm studying the Scriptures, they become alive in an odd way, and they make sense to the moment I'm in, they're no longer a historical document."
Seems to me that after you've decided to "take up your cross and follow" Jesus for a while, God turns up that ol' refining fire a few degrees. I think one of the descriptives for the greek word "trial" is "re-form". The more pliable, willing, and soft the clay, the easier it is to re-form I reckon. Just that "letting go" and trusting if you can't see all the details and answers just now, God does and that's all the answer we ever really needed anyway.
And with trials, human nature squirms and kicks and screams. Fire and re-forming aren't exactly the flesh's best ideas at achieving it's beloved controlable, explainable, relaxing, and comfortable environment.
And with trials comes doubts and fears and questioning and steps backwards/disengaging in my relationship with God typically. Now all the disengaging and doubts and searching mind you, are only on my end of things. I am the one running off, hiding in fear and confusion and hurt with my fig leaves- ashamed of nakedness all the sudden b/c I am no longer focused on His amazing face and on who God alone can tell me I am- beautiful and priceless.
I am the one stepping away in some way, both subconsciously and consciously perhaps. Even still, God's love is not swayed. Our Rock is our Rock. Period. And when He seems silent or different or like He's holding out on me or somethin...well, I'm finding it is me who has run away from Him in some way(s) and then yelling "where did you go, God?" as a reaction to hardship and adversity that He has allowed in the first place FOR MY OWN GOOD.
As it turns out, though- in the very hardship He designs and "works for good" in the end, He never leaves our side. Seems like a rotten sham on God's part if you ask me. You create these human things and allow pain in their lives to remind the self-centered, forgetful creatures that they need You, yet You know full-well that You will have to go through the trial, too. Because You promised to stay by their side through it ALL.
I'm thinkin Bono's on to something. When we run and hide, when I choose to think about anything more than my God and therefore worship it, when I choose fluffy and fake over the sometimes hard Truth, when I want answers and a clean-cut, explainable, black and white kinda god who is no God at all, well- it seems He is still there anyway. Waiting to make the Word breathe in and out and speak. Able to move and direct and nurture my tired, confused heart. Able to make even me hear His glorious silence.
Sunday, May 14, 2006
Letting Go
psalm 46:10:
"be still and know that I am God."
the original hebrew that this verse was penned in reads:
"let go, relax, cease striving and know that I am God."
I have learned to offer nothing but myself. In and of myself, as a creation bought by the Ultimate Buyer's blood, i have Christ's right-standing with God clothing me. I have learned to simply accept that I am accepted. With God the Father, there need not be any fear of condemnation or of Him simply not "liking" me @ times...God's love, PERFECT love chases away and defeats fear.
I have learned that striving and independence are a couple things that children who trust their parents rarely participate in. And that as a child of my God, I am called to "be still and know that He is God." To relax, let go and know that He's in charge. The thing about our God people, is that He's got this love right, this love without limits. This love times infinity. We can't annoy or drain or be separated from His love. He's got our backs. We're under His wing as a mother bird protects with insane, selfless, undying love her chick.
Let go of your whole self, life, desires, shortcomings, questions and truly fall into His arms.
He'll catch ya. Every stinkin' time.
"be still and know that I am God."
the original hebrew that this verse was penned in reads:
"let go, relax, cease striving and know that I am God."
I have learned to offer nothing but myself. In and of myself, as a creation bought by the Ultimate Buyer's blood, i have Christ's right-standing with God clothing me. I have learned to simply accept that I am accepted. With God the Father, there need not be any fear of condemnation or of Him simply not "liking" me @ times...God's love, PERFECT love chases away and defeats fear.
I have learned that striving and independence are a couple things that children who trust their parents rarely participate in. And that as a child of my God, I am called to "be still and know that He is God." To relax, let go and know that He's in charge. The thing about our God people, is that He's got this love right, this love without limits. This love times infinity. We can't annoy or drain or be separated from His love. He's got our backs. We're under His wing as a mother bird protects with insane, selfless, undying love her chick.
Let go of your whole self, life, desires, shortcomings, questions and truly fall into His arms.
He'll catch ya. Every stinkin' time.
Thursday, May 11, 2006
The Great Adventure
I've been officially convinced. I'll embrace life in the Light with the ultimate Love. These highs and lows are far better than living a life driving only in the pre-trodden ruts of the expected.
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