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3rd best Saturday ever

visioncgbc | April 07, 2008 07:20

I tell you , this past Saturday ranked right up there with about the top Saturdays I've ever had. Mark and I were married on a Saturday, and Chloe was born on a Saturday. So, what was so great? Well, Friday night Meagan wanted to know if Austin could come over for a bit. In my mind I thought, "How in the world am I gonna stay up past 9:30? I don't stay up on Friday night?" But, he came over and we had a very fun time playing Wii. He left about 12:00. It was gonna rain Saturday, so Mark couldn't cut the church grass, so he'd be home. Well, I heard some type of noise Saturday and stirred around a bit. I figured it was around 10:00. I sat up, put my glasses on and looked at the clock. It was 12:15!!! I had slept until 12:15 in the afternoon!! Meagan says that she might want to go and look for her prom shoes. I told Mark and told him I was also gonna clean the downstairs. HE CLEANED THE ENTIRE DOWNSTAIRS FOR ME! Aren't you jelous? My house in disarray is one of the biggest issues for me in life. I worry. I pout. I go home and night and spend the three hours before I go to bed thinking "Oh, how I wish my house was clean and organized", never realizing that part of the process would be me getting up and cleaning and organizing my house. Brilliant, right? But on Saturday, my downstairs was cleaned. AAAHHHHH.

Sunday church was very good. P&W-amazing, for me at least. We sat at the front, and it was so good, and so less distracting. I'm not saying we'll always do that, I'm just saying it was good yesterday. The Treasure Principle has been wonderful for me, and I hope it will change our church and their level of trust in God. To trust Him to give our minimum and beyond our minimum. I believe this is the final frontier for many people, and once they give God this last little bit of themselves-WATCH OUT! Their lives would change in a radical way in their relationship with Christ, others, and in their freedom to serve. Last night "Tootie" visited Vision again, and it was so good to see her and talk a bit.

On the way home, preaching was on the radio and a scripture was on that I've questioned in my own mind. Matthew 8:21 Another disciple said to him, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father." 22But Jesus told him, "Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead." I've often thought "Lord, you didn't want this man to go to the funeral of his father?" But, as I was listening to this last night on the radio it struck me what I think he might have been saying. "Commit to me first. Above anything else." What do you think society would say if we really, I mean really put God first in our life? They'd say we were rude, neglectful, and things that were probably far from the truth. I'm not sure that if this man would've said "Yes!" to whatever Jesus wanted that Jesus wouldn't have permitted him to bury his father. I'm not sure, I'm just wondering. You see we as Christians tell the unsaved, "Don't clean up your act before you come to Christ, it doesn't work like that, come as you are." All the while we say "Lord, as soon as I get things in order, I'll follow you more. I'll do what you want." God, as soon as my house is clean, I'll follow you. God, when my kids are grown, I'll follow you. God, when my finances are in order, I'll follow you. God, when.............. Satan is in the background making sure we never get things in order. Just like the unsaved, Christians also must follow the will of God in the place we find ourselves, wherever that is. Who knows, if we will do that first, now, maybe we will be found faithful and worthy of the help that we stand waiting for.

I have to tell you about mine and Chloe's car time this morning. She says "Mommy, how did people know that Jesus was on the earth?" Gulp. I could tell this might be gonna go deep. Before I respond, she says "The Bible, right?" I told her yes, and explained faith to her and was able to explain that faith was believing what we don't see. I told her some miracles in my own life through faith. I also told her that Jesus was the only way to salvation. I told her some people say they believe in God, but believe that there are many ways to Him, and told her that isn't true. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW4LLwkgmqA She asked me how Jesus lifted into the clouds when he didn't actually die. I told her that had also happened to the prophet Elijah. So, I limped through the discussion, but was very thankful to hear she'd given thought to things beyond the average. Toward the end of the drive I told her that if the rapture takes place before she dies, she will also rise without experiencing earthly death. I said "Jesus is in heaven preparing a place for us." She said "It's like dropping your kids off in Mexico, and then going back to pick 'em up." I'm not sure when I've laughed harder.

Oh well

visioncgbc | April 03, 2008 06:20

I had a very detail oriented blog tellling you more information than you even wanted to know about my trip. It got lost, again. Oh well. This happens on this blog regularly, and when the little sign comes up and you realize you've lost your blog-it makes ya sick. So, I'm claiming Romans 8:28, and just assuming that for whatever reasons the details of my trip shouldn't be shared here. But if anybody wants to hear any details, just find me and I'll be glad to share. I will say the trip was incredible, and I learned alot.

Last night Matt and Erin Blair spoke in Focus and invited Vision to join in, and I'm so glad. Matt spoke on the Barbarian Way, which is an amazing book on being a radical Christ follower, willing to go against the grain of what's considered the norm in Christianity. I was encouraged as he talked about he and Erin living this sold-out-for-Jesus lifestyle. He said that they're closer than they've ever been, and trusting God to meet their every provision as he has decided to not go after the normal Christian industry standard of record labels and publishing deals. He was willing to talk with me for a bit and I almost felt guilty for taking up his time, but it make me excited in every when he wanted me to listen to a few songs he'd written and tell him what I thought. It's very inspiring to be around people like them, or at least it is for me. I was going to go to choir but by the time I was through talking with Matt it was almost 9:00!! Sorry Joel.

Now the problem. How do I take his message and allow it to encourage me to do the radical things God's called me to? I want to. But, lately I've felt so knocked down that I just assume I'll fail again. Do you feel like sometimes people don't get "it"? It being life, it being God's call, it being your passion. I'm reading Job and it is so comforting to me. Talk about somebody misunderstood by everybody. We think it's so foreign to be rejected by people, but not according to this story.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job%209-10;&version=31;

So my prayer for us both today is that we truly will live by the following:Acts 5:29 Peter and the other apostles replied: "We must obey God rather than men! You can trust God today. Does trusting God mean that we'll never face earthly rejection? No. But it doesn mean we can make it through that knowing we are not rejected by the One that matters most.

3rd best Saturday ever

Oh well

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