More Than Just Slogans
It's 2:34am, and I'm up in my hotel room thinking about life and our recent stint on the road and i can't help but wonder why in the world God has been so kind to us. It's perplexing and yet incredibly humbling. There's so much that we have to be thankful for that I can't stop thinking on Him and his goodness. I know that may seem cliche, but there comes a point in your life, where as a believer, you come face to face with every cliche you've ever heard raised in the church. "Jesus is all I need," "I can't go on without Him," "He's number one, before ministry, before anything"...
All of these very real questions have become more than just slogans we heard at church camp or at our latest "revival" service...they've literally jumped off the pages of life and into our hearts and have demanded an answer! Situations in our recent history have forced us to either put up, or shut up, and I can honestly say what seemed to be a cliche is now a statement of valor and originality.
When you realize why these statements became cliches, you quickly understand that at one point when they were first used, they were life defining statements that altered the orators life, as well as those who heard him. So that is now our goal: to make every cliche that pours praise on our God seem as if it were the most original and meaningful statement that's reflected from our lives and love for other people. Lord, let it be so!
Sheesh, heavy thoughts for 2:51am lol!!!
mannyfresh!
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Yes, Man, that is so true! me as well as most of my friends have been raised in the church. but just recently i've gone thru a wilderness experience & when i came out on the arm of my Beloved (Song of Solomon 8:5) a lot of things came to light! Thing s we've heard so much & so often: sometimes we don't realize the very meaning of what we're saying until we go thru something that makes us realize "WOW! All that stuff that i heard b4, that i nodded my head to; i didn't realize the full extent of what that means til now. Til now that i can point to personal experiences in my life and atest to that!
We say stuff like, "JEHOVAH is my all & all", yet we still lean on & depend on other stuff. When you come to the acknowledgement, (sometimes after things have to be removed from us, our eyes are opened) "wow i say & agree to this, but my lifestyle really doesn't, i really don't completely rely on HIM for EVERYTHING! i really don't have HIM as my all in all" & then HE's like "ok, now that you've been honest, make it so that I am now your all in all" Sometimes it takes us a lot to realize our own selves, but after we do, then is the perfect time to do all the things we've been proclaiming & experience the things up to now we've only talked about!
God is not cliche, so why should we let our expressions of love for him be cliche. God, you are a burst of sunshine that will never dim or fade... you just get brighter and brighter. Thank you Lord for being a daily surprise! And may our expressions of love for you be not said or expressed in vain (like cliches usually are) but may they be said and expressed like new, everyday, as if they were our last.