As I was sitting in the Lords Presence after a day of
thoughts that seemed to keep attacking my brain, do you ever have those days?
When everything seems to be bigger than they really are, where problems in our
lives become our everything? I was wrestling with God, asking some really tough
questions and demanding answers. I actually encourage you to wrestle with God,
there are times in our lives that we need this process and its funny how our
loving Father gives us the ability to do it. Remember the story of Jacob
wrestling with the angel? As a side note, God always wins, which is good
because what would happen if we won? Also, demanding answers is not the best
way to go about it… oops J
Anyways, to make a long story short here’s what popped into
my head as I was worshiping our Lord and Savior: “If I get comfortable with my
faith, with my relationship to Father and stop seeking for more, then the Holy
Spirit’s job becomes much more difficult. Our comfort hinders our ability to
get the fullness of what God wants for us.” Woah! Lets read that again and try
to grasp what He is saying. Jesus did not call us to a comfortable life, but He
called us to a life that’s more than what this world offers, He calls us to
live on His power instead of our “great ideas”. Living dependent on the one who
created life.. I have been reading a book called “Fresh Power” by Jim Cymbala
(the pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle in New York City) and he has said a
couple things I believe are worth pondering.
“Too
much of our religious life is made up of programs and human ideas, talents and
strategies. While these have value, they pitifully fail to meet the need of the
hour. What is missing today is something from heaven itself, something from God
the Holy Spirit that fills and floods our lives.”
What does the above statement mean? It means we have to rely
on God, get out of our comfort zones and do what He has told us to do: Seek
God, make disciples, use Jesus’s name in confidence that He will do things He said He would. I serve a God that wants to break in
and bring life to the hopeless situations in our lives, do we believe that
“nothing is impossible with God?”
Thanks guys! I pray for blessing, peace and hope to invade
your life today.
