Filed under: A Hunger for God
As you may be able to tell from my new header, I am entering a new season. Not a more depressed, self-depreciating time in life–rather a healthy view of
my self and of God, the kind that allows my “somewhat stony heart” to become soft and malleable again.
As I journey through BSH with my small group, I am reminded of a ratio.
The ratio is 10:1. It’s the ratio of things I know in my mind : ways I live.
In this “new season” I’m asking to speak honestly with Christ (as my bridegroom) before all others regarding the dearest things in my heart. I may write a lot less. I’m definitely not going to promise more…
The “new” idea is to be faithful to Christ and run to him to baptize my mind and heart before I allow everything/-one else to mold my thinking. I think it should be good… it may even result in a somewhat softer heart!
Culture Wars: Why is single motherhood so rampant in American culture?
Tonight, Fox covered this story and it’s insane how COVERED the answers to this simple question are.
First of all, I have a problem with the fact that the words sexual promiscuity and immorality were never mentioned. The easy but avoided answer is that we’ve lost our moral backing in almost every essential institution in America. Its hard to track back to that though because no one wants to subscribe to a central document of morality (The Bible) and everyone wants to play it their way. Because selfishness for ones comfort and own glorification is more important than anything else in today’s culture the expulsion of absolute truth becomes necessary. You see, truth cannot exist with self-importance. Christ is the truth and his way was the low, self-denying way.
So, instead of a sorrowful evaluation of our nation’s downfall, Fox reported the takeover of feminism and female independence as the key to single motherhood. Parading “femi-Nazism” as a common solution to female (all of them) “behind bars” and “trapped” feelings of centuries past, Fox kicked itself in a rare opportunity to come to real terms with our nation’s state.
I wish this topic (and many like it) were “givens” in Christian culture and American culture at large but more and more the status quo beliefs are being taken as moral standard, and worse yet, truth. It’s about time we step up and step out regarding the truth that we know.
Can’t anyone just tell the truth these days?
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New Shane & Shane song. Such good word-age.
My favorite line is, “You turn ashes into beauty, You are for me not against me now…” Love the revelation of a FOR US God. 
Here are the lyrics:
EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT
Who am I to know Your glory,
who am I to recognize your voice, calling out
How could I be in Your story,
God who was and is, and is to come
I was dead in my sin, you came in, yeah
You made a way when there was no way
You covered heaviness with garments of praise
You wrote a song and You’re singing it over me
I feel a dead heart beating now
This revelation makes me wanna shout
That Jesus has been sent, everything is different
You turn ashes into beauty,
You are for me not against me now
You turn mourning into dancing,
you turn weeping into a joyful noise
What manner of love,
that You would call us sons and daughters
We cry Abba Father,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Our God, He reigns
Filed under: A Hunger for God
Sometimes, I let my mind wander so much that I get lost… Not just in my thoughts. Sometimes I get lost on the road. I forget where I’m at. This isn’t insanity… this is what really happens.
For instance, today as I pulled on Fort Gordon, I honestly could not envision the next road that I was supposed to be driving on. I couldn’t get a mental picture of where I was going… But I knew the road I was driving on was one that I had to use to get to where I was going so I stayed on it.
I’m sure you get where I’m going with this. Sometimes in my conversations with God, I get bold and ask where the next step is leading. What is the plan? And occasionally He allows me a glimpse into my future. And occasionally the only look I get is the road I’m on.
Today proved something though. I’ll get where I’m going. Even without a “map-quested” life, I’ll get to where I’m going. I like the idea of a faith-driven route. I don’t have to always know, and I’m glad.
Filed under: A Hunger for God
I need You now and forever,
So stay right here with me,
Don’t ever leave.
Love was kept,
From me like a secret,
And I swore that I was through,
Until You, until You.
It’s true. I didn’t know real, emblazened, faithful love until You. Lots of exchanges, trade-offs and half-loves but not anything coming close to You.
Good love is here; you’re Christ. When I don’t know or understand love, I’ll look for You. You consistently teach me. Your cross has explained and your people continue to proclaim “how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ.” (Eph 3:18)
Will You be my one and only Love?
