You know, the song says "His eye is on the sparrow." I think it is sometimes ridiculously overplayed and sometimes not done well, but the song has a great concept if we stop and think about it. The God of the Universe; of this galaxy and the next, still cares enough to pay attention to the smallest things. Everything in our world is so detailed and magnificently made, it is almost hard to believe a single deity, though He be divine, could create a concept as large as the Milky Way and something as small as an artery in our bodies, and care immensely about both creations. We struggle just to grasp the idea of something much larger than us, yet God not only grasped the idea, he came up with it.
This all begs the question: why do we live like we run the world? Can we not see that we are a mere blip on the global radar, and for that matter smaller than a blip on the universal radar? God loves us. That is a crazy combination of words to put in a sentence, yet He wants us to know it's true even when it doesn't make sense. Since we have this love of a God so powerful and omniscient, shouldn't we live like it's His world. Shouldn't we wake up every day with desire and urgency to live life the way Christ commissioned it in Matthew? Can we not take pride in a God that wants to call us His children after we killed His Son?
I pray today we would all think like the sparrow. We are one of the smallest parts of God's plan, yet we have the ability through Christ to make one of the largest contributions. Love someone today.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Monday, December 28, 2009
Along Those Lines
To continue with yesterday's post, I will stay on the topic of sin. Is it just me or do we as Christians seem to skew the lines between right and wrong more than even the world does? If we think about it, the pagan world doesn't really try to decipher between right and wrong except on their own personal moral level. Christians know the difference yet we try to force wrong things to be right. I don't think God could possibly take that well.
We tend to say "as long as we are in the context of a relationship, it's okay if we have premarital sex." Well, no it's not. Or we say "getting drunk is fine as long as we don't do it every weekend." Once again, we have stretched the boundaries in order to do what we want. The question I pose is: do you not think this has been happening for a while now? I mean, I can't help but think that every generation since Jesus has made a few things a little more acceptable. We didn't just get here over night. However now you can walk up to a random mix of people in an airport and ask them to share their story and most of them will include their so-called "relationship" with their god, whether they be Buddhist, Islamic, Hindu, Jewish, or any other religion someone has thought up by now, yet in their every day lives they look just like we do in our Christian lives. We are called to be a peculiar people, and if that means we have to lay some pleasure-filled things aside, so be it. We don't get out of our rut and back in our passionate relationship with God without deciding to first. Deciding to live a life of righteousness is the first step. Now we have to do it.
We tend to say "as long as we are in the context of a relationship, it's okay if we have premarital sex." Well, no it's not. Or we say "getting drunk is fine as long as we don't do it every weekend." Once again, we have stretched the boundaries in order to do what we want. The question I pose is: do you not think this has been happening for a while now? I mean, I can't help but think that every generation since Jesus has made a few things a little more acceptable. We didn't just get here over night. However now you can walk up to a random mix of people in an airport and ask them to share their story and most of them will include their so-called "relationship" with their god, whether they be Buddhist, Islamic, Hindu, Jewish, or any other religion someone has thought up by now, yet in their every day lives they look just like we do in our Christian lives. We are called to be a peculiar people, and if that means we have to lay some pleasure-filled things aside, so be it. We don't get out of our rut and back in our passionate relationship with God without deciding to first. Deciding to live a life of righteousness is the first step. Now we have to do it.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
My First Blog
I am new to the blogging world and have, for a long time, kind of made fun of the blogging community. The fact is, however, I have stuff I need to let out. Things I need to say and no pulpit to say it in. Therefore, telling everyone why I am starting this blog may make this one of my longer blogs I will write, but here goes:
I don't think I am the only one when I say that many moments in my life have left me feeling trapped. I feel like I know God has so many great things in store for my life and I have either passed on so many opportunities that I'm stuck in a rut now, or I have just neglected my heart's desires to change the world and let my head tell me it can't be done. I have a passion for music, yet I only play my songs with all the feeling and emotion I desire in them when it is just me around; when only I am home. (Well, and my dog Marley) I yearn for an undying passion that is required of me to be a city on a hill, yet I lay motionless. This seems to lead me into sin. Complacency leads to sin. I don't know if that is a side note in Webster's definition of complacency, but it should be. Furthermore, sin on top of sin leads to being complacent in sin; becoming so comfortable allowing "small sins" in our lives that we sin without remorse almost and are no longer uncomfortable allowing sin to thrive in our lives on a daily basis. I would even go as far to say that the degree of separation in the previous few statements is non-existent, meaning complacency not only leads to complacent sin, but pure complacency IS sin. I feel as a people of God, we have neglected to realize that not doing what we know to do for Christ is just as sinful as doing things we deem wrong.
I've been reading in Hosea lately and it has really convicted me, so much that I've been moved to tears. Hosea's first couple chapters are metaphoric for how Israel has betrayed God and become a "whore" to the the marriage Christ desires with his bride: the church. I encourage you to pick up your sword today and read Hosea and let it convict you the way it has me, because I no longer want to be complacent in a world where sin continues to grow and faith is diminishing. I no longer want to be a whore to my King and my Husband in Christ.
I don't think I am the only one when I say that many moments in my life have left me feeling trapped. I feel like I know God has so many great things in store for my life and I have either passed on so many opportunities that I'm stuck in a rut now, or I have just neglected my heart's desires to change the world and let my head tell me it can't be done. I have a passion for music, yet I only play my songs with all the feeling and emotion I desire in them when it is just me around; when only I am home. (Well, and my dog Marley) I yearn for an undying passion that is required of me to be a city on a hill, yet I lay motionless. This seems to lead me into sin. Complacency leads to sin. I don't know if that is a side note in Webster's definition of complacency, but it should be. Furthermore, sin on top of sin leads to being complacent in sin; becoming so comfortable allowing "small sins" in our lives that we sin without remorse almost and are no longer uncomfortable allowing sin to thrive in our lives on a daily basis. I would even go as far to say that the degree of separation in the previous few statements is non-existent, meaning complacency not only leads to complacent sin, but pure complacency IS sin. I feel as a people of God, we have neglected to realize that not doing what we know to do for Christ is just as sinful as doing things we deem wrong.
I've been reading in Hosea lately and it has really convicted me, so much that I've been moved to tears. Hosea's first couple chapters are metaphoric for how Israel has betrayed God and become a "whore" to the the marriage Christ desires with his bride: the church. I encourage you to pick up your sword today and read Hosea and let it convict you the way it has me, because I no longer want to be complacent in a world where sin continues to grow and faith is diminishing. I no longer want to be a whore to my King and my Husband in Christ.
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