Sitting this morning one a hot cup of coffee and a pastor leader post on vacations and time away, it came to my mind that I use to blog a bit. It took over a half hour to even find the blog and get signed in. Here I am though.
Update: I am getting married in just under two weeks. I now live in Plentywood Montana and I am starting a new missional church called Living Hope.
Life is so very exciting right now and I don't see any signs of it letting up.
When we face challenges and problems in our lives, as christians, how do we see them. Do we look to them the same way the non - believers do or do we hyper-spiritualize every experience in life?
To put our faith in God is certainly new with each experience but something that we can attain with every experience. What I am saying is that it doesn't need to be a daunting experience that brings us to our knees. We can live our lives on our knees, bowed down to the creator of Heaven and Earth.
It requires surrender to Him though and that is tough for a people that love so much to be in control of our own lives.
I have been doing a small series based on a quote by Louis Lamour. He said " sometimes it feels as though everything is finished, That is the beginning" I don't know much about Louis, but I wonder if he knew he was so theological or deep.
Like the trees in the fall, giving up their leaves, they do it so beautifully (until you have to rake them). They say good bye to the old leaves with such grace and beauty, that we miss what is actually happening. They are shedding part of themselves in preparation for the beauty and new life in the following season. Spring brings new growth and new life. It brings the fruit of a new year.
When we surrender, we can learn to welcome in the new fruit of a new season in our lives, but we must first give up some of the old. It is scary to let God in completely and take control completely. It is against everything that we have grown up knowing. We need not be in control of anything, but instead allow God to fully take the rains and guide us to a life that worthily magnifies His amazing love for us. Romans 6 speaks so wonderfully of this very thing, that we are not slaves to sin, that we have new life in God.
Will you have the guts to let go - it is the ultimate trust fall. Will you allow God to catch you and change you to be all that He has for you. Greater is the wisdom in His little finger than in all our minds, if you don't believe me, ask yourself what He was thinking when He made the sunrise and then to top it off, the sunset.
If we do this thing right, we just might get out of here alive.
