The In-betweens
28/11/06 10:49 Filed in: Randomnimity
I'm all about listening in the in-betweens. I like
thinking about God when I'm bored. Thinking about God
constantly isn't something that we have to be monks
in order to do, which is good news. Personally, I
think that I'd look funny with a little bald spot on
top of my head. In the USofA we have a habit of being
very Roman-Greco mindsetted. The Roman-Greco mindset
is categorized, putting everything into their own
little place, apologizing faith on the basis of
concept. The Hebrew mindset is all encompasing,
free-flowing, faith is something that saturates your
life. Christianity when it comes down to it, at its
core, is Messianic-Judaism (Jewish belief with faith
in Jesus Christ as the messiah). As a Christian I
believe that my life is all about Christ, and while I
am always at constant friction with being
pathetically human, I want my life to be saturated
with God. I don't believe in a 2 day a week
Christianity. What this means is death, a death of
Joel, everyday.
Lately I've been taking breathers. I'm seeing how "taking breathers" are not just escaping to a queit place. You can take them waiting in line at the bank, the post office and in traffic. Places where I normally get driven crazy being a mountain boy in the city, I have been making myself stop. It's so much easier for me to focus on God and be in a sustain conversation with Him when I was frequently around quiet...and lakes, and stars at night, and snow in the winter, and...I could go on. But slowy, and surely, God is giving me grace as He cracks open my heart through the business of an Atlanta pace.
It's turning off the radio in the car and talking to God. "Jesus please help me to somehow share Your love in this sea of humans." It's waiting in line and praying for the person in front of you and behind you. "Jesus somehow reveal Your love to these people, whether it's through me, a family member, a friend or by supernatural means. Through my interaction in this building, let Your love be left here." It's paying attention to expressions on people's faces. It's paying attention to tears. It's opening ourselves to the indwelling Christ, the one alive in us, and asking Him to purify us of selfishness, and all of our human tendencies to try to gain lordship over our own lives when that will lead us to destruction. It's, each moment, abandoning ourselves to the one and only True God and surrending ourselves to His Lordship. The foundation of His throne is righteousness and justice and is from everlasting to everlasting.
Lately I've been taking breathers. I'm seeing how "taking breathers" are not just escaping to a queit place. You can take them waiting in line at the bank, the post office and in traffic. Places where I normally get driven crazy being a mountain boy in the city, I have been making myself stop. It's so much easier for me to focus on God and be in a sustain conversation with Him when I was frequently around quiet...and lakes, and stars at night, and snow in the winter, and...I could go on. But slowy, and surely, God is giving me grace as He cracks open my heart through the business of an Atlanta pace.
It's turning off the radio in the car and talking to God. "Jesus please help me to somehow share Your love in this sea of humans." It's waiting in line and praying for the person in front of you and behind you. "Jesus somehow reveal Your love to these people, whether it's through me, a family member, a friend or by supernatural means. Through my interaction in this building, let Your love be left here." It's paying attention to expressions on people's faces. It's paying attention to tears. It's opening ourselves to the indwelling Christ, the one alive in us, and asking Him to purify us of selfishness, and all of our human tendencies to try to gain lordship over our own lives when that will lead us to destruction. It's, each moment, abandoning ourselves to the one and only True God and surrending ourselves to His Lordship. The foundation of His throne is righteousness and justice and is from everlasting to everlasting.