A call to DO

So tonight a few things hit me that I’d like to share:

1. We as a generation today claim to be on the “brink” of a revolution… We have songs that sing about how we are the generation that seeks, the generation that is feeling something great… All good things.. but honestly, all I see are people singing those things and not really living it. I fall into this as well, so this is not “judgment” on my fellow brothers and sister. I just don’t understand what we are waiting for, why are we just praying about change and a revolutionary different Christian.. .why aren’t we DOING it!? It doesn’t take much, it won’t take much. . . to sell out to Jesus in all we do and actually love like He loved… that’s all. That right there would change the face of Christianity completely, us just LOVING others. I am reading a book right now called “Do Hard Things” and it is just reiterating this idea that has been burning in my heart… We want to be the generation that does great things for His kingdom, but we aren’t DOING we are just WANTING and there is nothing holding us back other than ourselves.

Like Tonight, at Breakaway, there are atleast a thousand people that go to Breakaway here on campus at A&M and what is there to show for it? When we all gather together and sing about wanting to love like Him and make His name and glory known…. Hundreds of people singing… then we leave and go back to just being us and serving in our own organizations and going to church on Sunday just to sing the same songs again… Am I the only one that has that burning inside of me to really make His kingdom known by RADICALLY doing something for the Lord that reaches my fellow classmates and Americans… a radical movement that is centered around AUTHENTIC love and care for others around me.

Let’s do something, let’s make His name known… not just to the other people that go to Breakaway with us or to church , or that are in our organization… but make HIS NAME KNOWN to the NATIONs… How? To love like Christ, to give it all and not look back, to have a SELFLESS faith… let’s do it… are ya with me?

2. I am so blessed. I am blessed for no reason. There is not one thing I can tell you that would give me a reason to be blessed. I am all that is human and all that is broken in this world, but the Creator of the Universe thought that I was worth it to DIE for so that I may be forgiven and have ETERNITY with HIM… WOW!!!! This joy that I am experiencing in life is simply from above, from my Savior, my sweet sweet Jesus who loves me… who gives me the gift of knowning Him in an intimate way so that I may shine for Him. I mean, that’s the only reason I am here … my only goal. I don’t live that all the time, I sometimes forget that my plans my ideas of how things are “suppose” to be are junk compared to His plan. I am so excited about what He has for my life, what He is going to do with me… with my life. I just pray that I am continually walking with Him because then, and only then, will my life be as abundant as He had planned…

I love being able to look back just 6 months or 9 months and see where He has lead me. 6 months ago I never would have been able to tell you what He was doing in my life and would not have been able to look you in the eye and say that I was at peace with Him. Nine months ago I was living in a world that I wanted, that I thought was best, and that “fit” the ideal that I wanted… nothing close to what He wanted or had for me. I cheated myself out of that because I held onto myself instead of dying to it and living for Him. I would have told you that I wished I knew what it felt like to be involved and have a group of friends that encouraged me in the Word and loved like Christ… but I hid from that and did everything I could to avoid that because that meant I had to confess to myself that all I had to do was to let go…. But the coolest thing about Father God is that He will let us do stupid stuff… kinda like Jonah… he let Jonah go the other way… but then destroyed his ship, put him in the belly of a giant fish, then made sure he went where he was suppose to go… I feel like God did the same thing with me… ((without the giant fish/boat wreck thing…)) I knew where and what I was suppose to be doing a year ago, but ran fast in the opposite direction, until God so lovingly wrecked my life and the plans I had for me and took me into His will and carried me to the place I should have been all along. And just like Jonah, I am rejoicing in the Lord and now will follow Him where ever He leads.

Also, I think it is so beautiful that I am praising the Lord for the trials and the wreck that I was in… if it were not for those heartbreaks, those times where I had to look up to see rock bottom, those times where I was so lost and had no idea what was going on, those times where I physically hurt due to my heart, those times where I was angry at my circumstances… I am so GLAD for those times… why? Just look at me… I would not be there if it were not for those thing… I wouldn’t know the tender healing touch of my Savior the way I do, I would not LONG for His presence daily in my life… I would not genuinely YEARN for His guidance and direction as I do this day. . . Praise His Holy name, for He knows what is best, He loves me, and He knew what He was doin all along, and despite my anger and doubt, He was faithful and always will be faithful to lead me to Him.

WOW!!!

3. The last thing is that I am so glad that I have found friends that love love love the Lord and aren’t afraid of it… and also aren’t too good for school. Fellowship with believers is huge, friendship and relationships are what His love and His will is about in a way… I mean, Jesus didn’t do it alone, he had the 12 with him to share things to and to show what camaraderie was about. God has blessed me with some new friendships that I pray He will grow and be faithful to provide accountability and Christ like bonds.