He'll speak if you're willing to listen
He's quiet and wise.
He has several tattoos and a mysterious look
in his tired eyes.
I asked him, "Brother, do you ever get lonely?"
He said, "I'm made by God from dirt. What more do I need?
I'm on a journey,
Much like yourself,
Traveling to places unknown.
I think that everyone is a wanderer
Trying to find his way back home."
He has long hair and a beard
and his jeans are torn.
He tells of places he's been
which explains why his shoes are so worn.
Now he sits on the corner
and sings about life and love.
To the world he has nothing
But he swears he's been given more than enough.
He's on a journey,
Much like yourself,
Traveling to places unknown.
I think that everyone is a wanderer
Trying to find his way back home.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
COOL IT
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the LORD. Jeremiah 29:11-13
I've always loved this verse..but I have to confess, I have doubted. And I'll be honest..I feel like I can't see a foot in front of me. But I'm learning that faith is not simply knowing that God can..it's knowing that He will. Me and my friend have been talking about this a lot lately. We want to control our circumstances, relationships, and future....we want to control our life. I swear I have OCD. I want to know where I'm doing, what will happen, who it involves, when it will happen..I like organization. The Lord will provide... I just need to step back...and wait..and listen. I pray He unites my heart with His so that the desires of my heart, are the desires of His. I need to seek Him with my whole, undivided heart and find Him...to know He hears His children when they call upon Him..and to wait and listen to the perfect plans He has for us.
Wait for the Lord.Be strong and take heart,And wait for the Lord. Psalm 27:14
The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands. Psalm 138:8
I've always loved this verse..but I have to confess, I have doubted. And I'll be honest..I feel like I can't see a foot in front of me. But I'm learning that faith is not simply knowing that God can..it's knowing that He will. Me and my friend have been talking about this a lot lately. We want to control our circumstances, relationships, and future....we want to control our life. I swear I have OCD. I want to know where I'm doing, what will happen, who it involves, when it will happen..I like organization. The Lord will provide... I just need to step back...and wait..and listen. I pray He unites my heart with His so that the desires of my heart, are the desires of His. I need to seek Him with my whole, undivided heart and find Him...to know He hears His children when they call upon Him..and to wait and listen to the perfect plans He has for us.
Wait for the Lord.Be strong and take heart,And wait for the Lord. Psalm 27:14
The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands. Psalm 138:8
less of us
"By grace we love and are loved by this glorious and exalted Jesus whom we worship unceasingly, serve unwaveringly, and proclaim unashamedly until our face is at his feet." Vintage Jesus (Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears)
Do we really live like this? We nod our head in agreement and verbally affirm the truths but do we truly live like this...do we seek this extreme devotion with our whole heart? Do we really count everything as garbage compared to knowing Christ.
I don't.I want to. I want to proclaim unashamedly the name of our Savior King, Jesus Christ and I pray to God for opportunities..only to prove myself as a coward. I want to love, i mean really love people, but try to in my flesh (which is impossible!) instead of loving by God's grace, by which I am loved. I want to unceasingly worship God who is the only One worthy but I trade His glory for things less glorified..chasing lovers less wild.
Let us pray for a passion like David in Psalm 63, like Habakkuk (Habakkuk 3:17-18)and Job-praising God in plenty or in poverty, and like Paul, counting EVERYTHING as rubbish compared to knowing Christ. We need God to teach us to tarry, to wait on the Lord and not rest until He shows Himself. To be still and KNOW he is God...to know...not to feel He is God or to praise Him only when we feel He is near, to recognize our need only when we've drifted so far from our Father.. He alone IS God and that is sufficient, His grace is sufficient!
Let us draw near to the Father who will not turn us away and pray He holds us close to Himself-we are so prone to wander. By his ridiculous grace are saved and by his grace alone are we even able to fellowship with God, and "worship unceasingly, serve unwaveringly and proclaim unashamedly" our Lord Jesus Christ.
Let us not sit around in our inadequacies, feel hostage to our humanity, and wallow in our shortcomings...but pray for God's perfect and all sufficient strength and grace, through which we have power to accomplish everything He has set out for us to do.
All glory to God, the Divine Creator of my being, Savior and Lover of my soul
Do we really live like this? We nod our head in agreement and verbally affirm the truths but do we truly live like this...do we seek this extreme devotion with our whole heart? Do we really count everything as garbage compared to knowing Christ.
I don't.I want to. I want to proclaim unashamedly the name of our Savior King, Jesus Christ and I pray to God for opportunities..only to prove myself as a coward. I want to love, i mean really love people, but try to in my flesh (which is impossible!) instead of loving by God's grace, by which I am loved. I want to unceasingly worship God who is the only One worthy but I trade His glory for things less glorified..chasing lovers less wild.
Let us pray for a passion like David in Psalm 63, like Habakkuk (Habakkuk 3:17-18)and Job-praising God in plenty or in poverty, and like Paul, counting EVERYTHING as rubbish compared to knowing Christ. We need God to teach us to tarry, to wait on the Lord and not rest until He shows Himself. To be still and KNOW he is God...to know...not to feel He is God or to praise Him only when we feel He is near, to recognize our need only when we've drifted so far from our Father.. He alone IS God and that is sufficient, His grace is sufficient!
Let us draw near to the Father who will not turn us away and pray He holds us close to Himself-we are so prone to wander. By his ridiculous grace are saved and by his grace alone are we even able to fellowship with God, and "worship unceasingly, serve unwaveringly and proclaim unashamedly" our Lord Jesus Christ.
Let us not sit around in our inadequacies, feel hostage to our humanity, and wallow in our shortcomings...but pray for God's perfect and all sufficient strength and grace, through which we have power to accomplish everything He has set out for us to do.
All glory to God, the Divine Creator of my being, Savior and Lover of my soul
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