The music adds somethin to this blog, i think, so play it and read.
I can’t remember what was I was up to earlier today but God gave me some kind of a word about the way we trust Him and the way we come to Him.
Actually, I remember! I was contemplating on the things I would talk about if I were asked to speak with people about my journey with the World Race. So many things would be expected to be spoken of.
The people
The languages
The food
The travel
The best countries
The worst countries
The good times
The bad times
And what made me think the most; my God stories, my testimonies, the things that grow people’s faith.
As I pictured myself in front of people speaking, I started to relive my race and think about the experiences I could bring up. All of a sudden God didn’t want me to give them my experiences.
He started to give me a word that might not be the easiest to hear, to let settle in your heart, to still smile at me when ever i finally shut my mouth.
A lot of us have this “pepto bismol” faith. Think about it, how much did we hate pepto bismol or any other kind of liquid medicine growing up? The thought of those medicines made me even more sick than I was, and then taking the medicine didn’t even seem practical after that. We fought to not have to take that medicine. We heard that it would make our sickness go away from our parents,
so we sucked it up and downed the medicine.
It’s time to stop suckin it up and going to God.
How many times have we heard the great stories, (people being healed, risen from the dead, demons cast out, whatever it may be) how many times have we heard great, amazing stories like these and they’ve been the things to stir up our faith and trust and make us painfully go to God, “if you did it, do it for me.” That’s not enough. It’s never been enough.
It’s time for us to wake up, soak up His goodness, the things He’s blessed us with, love Him back with the love He’s poured over us since the day we were born. God’s not this medicine that doesn’t taste good and that might work.
He’s YOUR
Creator
Lover
Comforter
Song-writer
life Author
Healer
Source of Life
Warmth
Voice that breaks the Silence
Advisor
Best Friend
Refuge
Peace
Answer
Strength
Beginning
Middle
End
Papa
Daddy
Abba
Dad
Padre
Bigger than Big
Lord
Savior
Yahweh
Companion
Amigo
Forever
When we start to understand these things, we no longer go to Him like medicine, dreading the after taste. We RUN to him because we realize not having Him is death. And we realize running is dumb because we’ve been in His hands our entire lives. So, run, run until we run out of breath, until we’re breathing our last and realize we can’t take another breath in. Get to the end of yourself to let Him begin in you.
All the experiences that I’ve had and the people around me for the past year have had are nothing compared to the story He’s writing in you.
