Ever learning. Always failing. Forever weak. Yet eternally saved. From a price to pay. Which I could and can not afford. Learning to live life. Learning to love life. Growing into shoes larger than my own. Finding meaning in Your name. Love and peace.
Had our worship set. Sang "From The Inside Out". Chester was right. There's something really special about that song. Whether it's the key, the frequencies of guitar during the pre-chorus, the harmonies available throughout the song, or everything as a mish mash, I don't know what makes it so good. It's just an awesome cry out to God.
Vinny K was sharing some stuff from God's word today. He shared with us two passages...Romans 4:17 - As it is written: "I have made you a father of many nations." He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were.
Vinny K was homing into something. But my mind was too distracted at the time. What he did talk about also, was Romans 8:6-10 - The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God. You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.
His point here was so true...that if your mind is sinful, then it is hostile to God. It's like poking God with a hot rod lots of times...it hurts Him. If your mind is sinful, you cannot submit to His will and bring glory to Him. HOWEVER (this is the best bit), we are set free from that. Because the Holy Spirit reigns in our hearts. Our lives have been set free because Jesus's blood cleans us from our sin, so we can be made right with Daddy above. That's what Jesus did for us when he died a hard, gruesome, gritty, unneccessary, painful death. He allowed us...to enter God's presence...without being burnt up by His Holiness.
So with that knowledge and the Helmet of Salvation, may the Meditation of our hearts and the words of our mouths be pleasing to God...(psalm 19:14).
I had a vision today, after meditating some. There is a new youth in our presence on Sundays. His name is Lim. He is the epitome of the new generation of youth in Britain...He is rebellious, his interests hardly diverge from games and smashing windows, and , actual quote word for word, "hanging out in gangs of thirty." He is someone who society are trying to "fix", because they are nothing more than a problem to the economy. And he is fighting back.
Vinny K spoke to him very uncharacteristically. He responded, as soon as Lim said he likes to get up to no good, that he has a choice. 6:13 could very well change his life. He could take the alternative path and see what there is to life. Being free in Christ is what Vinny K could've said...but he just said the alternative. Then Lim had a change; a prick in his heart, where the pressure bled out, curiosity and contemplation overwhelming him; what more IS there to life?
I have this awesome vision. It progressively came as I thought more and more since Sunday. It's of a tree. But that wasn't the most prominent feature. The most prominent feature...was the branches sticking out. Lim was one of those branches. It was firm and thick, with more branches sprouting from it on every side. It was an awesome sight. Yes, Steven, Anna, Andy, Vivian, Charlotte and other people were there, blossoming and producing beautiful fruit. But I saw a glimpse, a minute fraction of what God has in store for Lim.
God is going to answer my prayers from the summer. This year is going to see 6:13 shake foundations and expand, and tongues of flames that slither along the floor, reaching out and drawing more to its fire. God is so working here now. This year will see Him move. 6:13 is ready to explode.
Thank you God, for the vision I can aim for. Thank you that I can see what you have in store for the youth and that everyone is found in You.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
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