Monday, May 28, 2007
Friday, May 25, 2007
It's Now.
These words are so pale in comparison to the words spoken to me in the past few days, they can only be a glimpse at what remarkable moments with my Maker I have experienced recently.
Looking back several years ago I can remember being called out, set aside, chosen... being passionate and contagiously ambitous. I was 14 years old and heard the voice of the creator of the universe speaking specifically to me, to my heart-- desiring ME to GO. I responded in a very real way and went... but not long after I became a mere instrument contributing to a fallen world. How was I on such a narrow path with so much hope but so easily and readily took part in a life that I always knew was not mine?
After several years of falling and failing... riding this rollercoaster of a life... engaging in a sinful mess I called my own... It is now, in this moment, in this place I seek my Sustainer once more. Im astonished at how He can take a life as disatrous as mine and still provide a way out.. and furthermore, He desires to USE me.
I feel like I have crossed over in intense way. Not that I have returned to my old passionate lifestyle, but I have found a new, fiery life even more filled with passion than before. I can rejoice and find so much happiness, specifically because I know what it was like to be in the fire, to be His fallen and lost sheep, the prodigal child... and He has brought me from that life. And now I'm here in Nashville, surrounded by people so desperate to serve and love people that I cannot give credit to none other than the healing, providing, merciful God. Two days of this journey have come and gone, but a lifetime, an eternity has already been changed. What an incredible feeling it is to love those I have yet to meet... to sincerely care for the children, the lost, the poor, the abandoned souls of Nashville. By simply desiring to love as Jesus loves, I can love people despite what they are-- but I can see them as beautiful masterpieces in need of a reason. And to think, for the next 2 months I get the opportunity to portray the image of Christ-- to give them reason, purpose... a life worth living.
My God Rocks.
Looking back several years ago I can remember being called out, set aside, chosen... being passionate and contagiously ambitous. I was 14 years old and heard the voice of the creator of the universe speaking specifically to me, to my heart-- desiring ME to GO. I responded in a very real way and went... but not long after I became a mere instrument contributing to a fallen world. How was I on such a narrow path with so much hope but so easily and readily took part in a life that I always knew was not mine?
After several years of falling and failing... riding this rollercoaster of a life... engaging in a sinful mess I called my own... It is now, in this moment, in this place I seek my Sustainer once more. Im astonished at how He can take a life as disatrous as mine and still provide a way out.. and furthermore, He desires to USE me.
I feel like I have crossed over in intense way. Not that I have returned to my old passionate lifestyle, but I have found a new, fiery life even more filled with passion than before. I can rejoice and find so much happiness, specifically because I know what it was like to be in the fire, to be His fallen and lost sheep, the prodigal child... and He has brought me from that life. And now I'm here in Nashville, surrounded by people so desperate to serve and love people that I cannot give credit to none other than the healing, providing, merciful God. Two days of this journey have come and gone, but a lifetime, an eternity has already been changed. What an incredible feeling it is to love those I have yet to meet... to sincerely care for the children, the lost, the poor, the abandoned souls of Nashville. By simply desiring to love as Jesus loves, I can love people despite what they are-- but I can see them as beautiful masterpieces in need of a reason. And to think, for the next 2 months I get the opportunity to portray the image of Christ-- to give them reason, purpose... a life worth living.
My God Rocks.
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