Rants on Issues that MATTER!!!
(to me)Archive for October, 2008
.testimonies.
For a touching video of real life testimonies click on the link. It is on my wife’s blog. I would recommend it to everybody, Christian or not.
For the Glory of God Alone
.living for the glory.
So while I may talk about living for the glory of God- most of the time I don’t. Does that suprise you- probably not. However I am so sick of living for me and my needs. I long for when all I can and will want to do is live fully for the glory of God. I long for the day that I live more than 3 minutes a day for the glory of Jesus. I know that I can’t try any harder or do anything under my own power to live for the glory of God, yet all I want is to be a living sacrifice. So I go before the cross, repent and let God change me to live more for His glory.
.the better way.
So I guess that post title is not completely accurate- it should in fact read the ‘the best way’… or better yet ‘the only way’. One might be thinking “The only way, for what…?” Well let me tell you. The only way to live.
For the past 50 years many in Christianity have told and believed many things about the way to live- from the staunch fundamental and legalistic Christians to the Emergent Christians and the ones in between them. For the most part they have all lied and really are founded in moralism. Now the good news is that there are some churches out there that get the ‘only way’. There have many people who have covered this topic and I have talked about this in previous posts. My point here is not to belabor the wrong message that has been proclaimed, rather it is to say there is a better way and really there is only one way.
Are you ready for it?
It is to live for the glory of God in all things. How can we do this one may ask? My the life, death and resurrection of Christ Jesus. We will never truly have life unless we life for the glory of Jesus- our sole purpose in life is to glorify Jesus with every aspect of our lives. The thing is we can not do this on our own. By our own accord we are completely separated from God and therefore can not live to glorify Him. It is only when we are reconciled to Jesus by His grace that we are able to truly live.
This message is for everyone, myself included. If you are not a Christian this message is for you. If you grew up in a fundamental legalistic church, an emergent church, a pentecostal church, a baptist church, a reformed church, or some other religion this message is for you.
The only way to live is to live for the glory of God and we can only do that through Jesus.
So as one beggar to another… I found the source of life, come and see Christ Jesus.
.scars.
It seems that so often as Americans we value comfort and safety above all. It is true that even a lot of Christians value the same things. We think that we need comfort and if we don’t that we are being persecuted. I found another quote by Rich Mullins that really captures this idea.
“So go out and live real good, and I promise you’ll be beat up real bad. But a little while after you’re dead, you’ll be rotted away anyway. It’s not gonna matter if you had a few scars. It will matter if you didn’t live. And when you wash up on that other shore, even though you’ve been disfigured beyond any recognition, the angels are gonna see you there, and they’ll go, ‘What is this? We’re not even sure if it’s human.’ But Jesus will say, ‘No, that’s human. I know that one.’ They’ll say, ‘Jesus, how do you know that one?” He’ll say, “Well, you see that sweater he’s got on?’ “
I hope that this is me someday. Not for my glory, but for the glory of Jesus. I hope I have scars and am worn completely out. May I not live my life in such a way that I am left unscaved. Rather may I live in such a way that I get scars for Jesus. May I look like worn out.
How do you want to live?
