"If you harden your hearts to man, then you are hardening your hearts to God."
&
"We will make the most profound difference in the world, if we are profoundly different from the world."
Both of these quotes are so true.
So, later on during the day, after lunch with Lace, I begin doing homework. Usually, when I do homework, I procrastinate, and kind of ponder on things. I'm not much of an over-thinker, but I do like to just realize what is going on, as far as future events, scheduling and such. I began thinking about my role as a Christ-follower and if I am successfully fulfilling that role. Then I felt God say, "I desire for you to succeed, but to never grow too full of me. I always want you to desire Me & desire My love". I was a little confused at first like....God...I WANT to be full of You. But then I realized, He desires us to seek Him more and more each day. We can never be too full of God... how awesome.
Moving on....
We did a service tonight, of prayer & worship, to prepare ourselves for the new launching of the Sunday night service after Easter. I'll tell you what, the worship & prayer time was so beautiful. I literally could not stop smiling, or tearing up, or bluntly crying when I sang "Til I See You". I just honestly felt like I had made my Daddy proud and that He was smiling at His children praying faithfully, worshiping freely, and standing in agreement for His Kingdom.
Then after I got home, did an online test, I began talking with a friend of mine. He is studying to become involved with the Christian Pastoral Ministries. I had remembered, randomly, a while back that he was up late a long time ago because God stirred a few things in his heart. And until this day, months later, I completely forgot to ask him exactly what that was. I randomly asked him today about what God had revealed to him. Now, stick with me... Here is the summary of it all:
Abraham, a servant of God, was asked to pretty much go and cut up some animals (my friend's choice words haha) and of course to us, this may be weird. But it was not weird during that time. "This was typical for a treaty to be made (this is actually what God is doing here)
He's making a deal with God!"
And usually when a "treaty" is being made, both parties walk through the halves that were cut. The parties would then say "Let what has been done to these animals be done to me if I ever break the Covenant".But when Abraham does this, only God walked through the halves. What could this possibly represent?!
"God is an incredible act of love, by just passing through the halves, He is saying to Abraham. 'I'd rather be torn apart like the animals have been than to fail you!'" as my friend put it.
Wow. how beautiful is that? God is pretty much showing Abraham the reassurance he needed to see that God loves Him enough that He would rather die for him than to see him fail....then my friend went even deeper with this...which blew me away.
"And whats more? God DID go to the point of death in order to NOT see us fail. "
How amazing is the feeling that we, as children of God, can have knowing our Daddy died for us, in order to see us succeed. He desires for us to fully succeed. I can't fathom this. His love never fails, so that we can successfully love others. His blessings are abundant so that we can successfully bless others with His grace. He died for us so we can succeed. All of this is just....phew...blowing me away.
Thank you, Lord, for just always keeping your promises and wanting us to always succeed with You as our Mentor.
-Jamie
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