"touching base"
Although my posts have been few and far between lately, it is not because I do not care. Actually, I am temporarily without internet access, aside from the landlord/ library connection.
Still alive, still going strong- as I know that many of you are, having spoken to me about the site, but have not yet made yourselves known through posting.... "and that's...
okay." The sun is shining, the puppies are yapping, and God is evidencing His sovreignty in a ton of incredible ways. Hallelujah.
"Worship is my Battle Cry...."
I actually wrote a song once called "Battle Cry." Very significant, God-inspired prayer-to-music type of thing, that is still a profound part of my daily life and my worship.
How easy it is to forget sometimes that we are in a BATTLE ZONE. Our thoughts, our fears, even our dreams can be so easily swayed if we do not "guard the deposit" that has been given to us....
The thing that is so striking to me is that by simply offering my body, my thoughts, my life to Jesus, as an instrument of righteousness, I am doing WARFARE. By offering my body as a living sacrifice, I am worshipping God, and when I am worshipping God, I am doing BATTLE. Powerful. I am no Greek scholar, but I did have a really impactful experience with my concordance once, regarding that whole passage in Romans 6 (don't have my Bible right now, but I think it's verses 12 and 13). In presenting the parts of your body to sin, you become an instrument of wickedness. "Instrument" in this case refers to a weapon of warfare. That's right. By choosing to sin, I am simultaneously becoming a weapon in the enemy's hand. But presenting the parts of my body in submission to God, and not to sin, I become a weapon in His hand! It is a crushing blow to the enemy every time I CHOOSE GOD. Oh yeah...feasting on the Father's will....
All battle stuff aside, it is also just way more fun and life-giving to submit to God. So there's that, too.... But it is pretty exciting to think about the damage we can do to the enemy's camp when we follow God. Let WORSHIP be our battle cry....
Thoughts of the moment....
I love the way God will just speak relationships into existence. Out of an awkward clustering of bumbling human beings, He can knit and join our hearts together in the most supernatural, mind-boggling manner. I LOVE the kids! I LOVE them! And I LOVE the communities He has placed me into, the family of God. And I LOVE the fact that God can use even me, because I am such a jar of clay. What a perfect plan- to take the weak things, the broken things, the foolish things, the
dorky things of this world and use them for His glory. May God be praised.
Holiness
Strong statement, anyone? Okay, here you go:
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God...such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on earth. (John Wesley)
We are the aforementioned "preachers," y'all. We preach the gospel with our words, with our lives- as a function if not in the vocational title sense of the word.
Kind of radical? A little idealistic? Perhaps. Inspiring and encouraging nonetheless. To FEAR nothing but SIN. DESIRE nothing but GOD. (And all these things shall be added....)
