Already Dead
Hmm....
Its been a great rest day.. woke up late as usual, had a simple lunch, finally caught up on rest, emails, worship stuff and other admin... then headed off in the early eve for a walk.
And here we go again...
Turning round the bend, i get the familiar prompting, something like *walk to where I last spoke to you*. I stroll over the usual track, enjoying the overcast and greying sky.. and the peace of the day... and on the way back, my thoughts get the better of me and i forget im on that route, till the very sky starts shimmers before me again. I wait and quietly ask God.
Nothing. I look around, the sky is still shimmering. Doing that zoom-in-zoom-out thing.
I look back and to the side, and the sky in that area is a foreboding wall, almost pitch dark... somewhat like that terrible evening just a short week ago.
Thought: (i can never get the exact words agh...maybe thats why i get so many)
"Many are living as if the future will be bright, but they do not know that the darkness is coming."
Looking around, the sky is back to normal, and as i ponder it, i absent mindedly walk round the bend and find myself staring straight up into the dark sky that suddenly opens up before me.
...."And i am sending you straight into the darkness"
uknow... if this happens any more ill have to find another route to walk. (j/k rite, as if that wld prevent God from catching up with me)
*mutter mutter*
Back home. check email.
It is the great mystery of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Death gives life. Jesus' death on the cross gave life. The death of a vision brings new vision. The death of a seed gives new life. It is the central focus of God's requirement for experiencing Him - death. When Jesus extended us an invitation to experience salvation and a relationship with Him, it came with a great cost, our very lives. Yet what we don't realize is that until we relinquish our total lives, we really aren't living at all. Without this death we will continue to strive, manipulate, and fret over every detail of life. It is when we finally say, "Yes, Lord, I am Yours completely," that we experience real freedom for the first time. This is the only time when Christ is fully seen in and through our lives. Christ describes our lives as vessels-vessels for Him to be revealed in and seen by others.
How is your vessel today? When people look inside, will they see a life that is dead to all things, save the life of Christ revealed? In the workplace, we are faced with challenges each day that seek to instill fear and control at every turn, but Christ says He wants to live through your life in the workplace. He wants to reveal Himself to your fellow workers today. However, He can only do this if our vessel is free of ourselves. Ask Jesus what things must die today in order for Him to live completely in and through you.
*mutter mutter*
mm.. actually, im very humbled that God would speak to me in this new way... Lord, let me not get too familiar with You. It is a blessing, such a blessing that You still speak this way today.
this is getting intense.. (as if it wasnt before). Press in. More than just living in the eyes of others, more than feelings, perhaps even greater than the cares of this world. Press in...
Lead me Lord.
DR: "Where i come from and where i need to go, sometimes i feel few can follow. And often, the only few that follow have paid a dear price to get where they are."
GC: "Sometimes, if it takes us longer, perhaps its just because what ahead is bigger, and we need the wait"
Its been a great rest day.. woke up late as usual, had a simple lunch, finally caught up on rest, emails, worship stuff and other admin... then headed off in the early eve for a walk.
And here we go again...
Turning round the bend, i get the familiar prompting, something like *walk to where I last spoke to you*. I stroll over the usual track, enjoying the overcast and greying sky.. and the peace of the day... and on the way back, my thoughts get the better of me and i forget im on that route, till the very sky starts shimmers before me again. I wait and quietly ask God.
Nothing. I look around, the sky is still shimmering. Doing that zoom-in-zoom-out thing.
I look back and to the side, and the sky in that area is a foreboding wall, almost pitch dark... somewhat like that terrible evening just a short week ago.
Thought: (i can never get the exact words agh...maybe thats why i get so many)
"Many are living as if the future will be bright, but they do not know that the darkness is coming."
Looking around, the sky is back to normal, and as i ponder it, i absent mindedly walk round the bend and find myself staring straight up into the dark sky that suddenly opens up before me.
...."And i am sending you straight into the darkness"
uknow... if this happens any more ill have to find another route to walk. (j/k rite, as if that wld prevent God from catching up with me)
*mutter mutter*
Back home. check email.
Being Given Over to Death
TGIF Today God Is First, by Os Hillman
It is the great mystery of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Death gives life. Jesus' death on the cross gave life. The death of a vision brings new vision. The death of a seed gives new life. It is the central focus of God's requirement for experiencing Him - death. When Jesus extended us an invitation to experience salvation and a relationship with Him, it came with a great cost, our very lives. Yet what we don't realize is that until we relinquish our total lives, we really aren't living at all. Without this death we will continue to strive, manipulate, and fret over every detail of life. It is when we finally say, "Yes, Lord, I am Yours completely," that we experience real freedom for the first time. This is the only time when Christ is fully seen in and through our lives. Christ describes our lives as vessels-vessels for Him to be revealed in and seen by others.
How is your vessel today? When people look inside, will they see a life that is dead to all things, save the life of Christ revealed? In the workplace, we are faced with challenges each day that seek to instill fear and control at every turn, but Christ says He wants to live through your life in the workplace. He wants to reveal Himself to your fellow workers today. However, He can only do this if our vessel is free of ourselves. Ask Jesus what things must die today in order for Him to live completely in and through you.
*mutter mutter*
mm.. actually, im very humbled that God would speak to me in this new way... Lord, let me not get too familiar with You. It is a blessing, such a blessing that You still speak this way today.
this is getting intense.. (as if it wasnt before). Press in. More than just living in the eyes of others, more than feelings, perhaps even greater than the cares of this world. Press in...
Lead me Lord.
DR: "Where i come from and where i need to go, sometimes i feel few can follow. And often, the only few that follow have paid a dear price to get where they are."
GC: "Sometimes, if it takes us longer, perhaps its just because what ahead is bigger, and we need the wait"
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