All I have to give
I’m sitting here trying to figure out what to write. I started asking myself; “what do I have to give..what can I write…what can I give to a God who has everything”? Suddenly I got hit with a portion of a verse.
..think of what you were when you were called..
So the question I pose to you; What were you before you were called? What could you and I have possibly had to cause an Infinate God to reveal himself to us? What did you posess? I’m not sure about you, but I, for sure, can only find that answer in the rest of that verse. I didn’t have anything and I was on my way to becoming a big huge no one.
Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are..
I was a sinner, yet he died for me. I wasn’t listening, yet he revealed himself to me. I was lost and really didn’t ask for a way, yet he provided me with one. All things work out for the good of those who love him. I didn’t know I loved him, but he knew my heart response before I even responded. With that, he chose to reveal himself to me. We are called according to his purpose. We were all called at different points in our lives.
When did God become real to you? Think back. What was it like when you first felt the love of God? What was is like when you first fell in love with him?
Its easy to love someone It’s easy to love God when you feel him loving you. But its hard to love him, when all you feel is pain and the mundane. God wants to give you back the passion. We The Church hasn’t lost it, even though some would say we have. I see a bride shining in the brilliance of his radiant light. I see a bride spotless, pure, whole. I see a church who as battered and beaten as she may appear rising victoriously throughout the ages. All leading up to..
Now.
I see The Church in comparisson with the woman at the well. Drinking water that satisfies her short term need, yet not seeing the oceans of heavenly water that surround her, water that fills her eternal need.
Paul told Timothy to stir up and “rekindle” the gift that God had given him. I urge you, and myself…Stir up the flame. The time has never been as urgent as it is now. We need the breath of the Spirit. The only way we can survive is through the Holy Spirit. With reverence we must remember that the……
wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going.
We need to be continually filled, and the only way to ahieve this is to do what Paul said. We need to stir it up. Faith gives birth to faith.
I just feel God. I hear him telling his bride to look to him. Stop looking at the world. Stop looking at failures. Look to him. Nothing else matters.
I am so thirsty. Lets not drink water that only serves an immediate desire. Lets drink the Water that runs pure, forever, eternal. Lets do this in boldness, like a lion. Walking around with Godly pride. Proud of Jesus, proud for what he did and what he is doing. Never ashamed again we will stand. If even just for a single moment of truth to shine through us, for all the world to see. This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine.
