I realize more and more how utterly helpless and dependant I am on God for absolutely everything in my life. Especially now that I look into Jamie's eyes and realize how many things I could do wrong. How many things I could want to do right and fail miserably.
For me it's the most comforting and soothing thing to have my soul ministered to by the very God who created me. To open my soul and let the Savior of the World dissect me, lay me open; to lay there open and vulnerable before Him for a time and know you've been "found out"; and then to take part in the heeling of His heeling hand. The hand that moves with precision, mending all you've laid before Him.
And then I get up. Feeling strong and made right. Not that I have done everything right or that I will ever do everything right. No, not that at all. It's just a complete knowing that I have been made right. Not because of my good decisions and clever calculation, but simply because the Messiah wanted to make something "right" out of something so "wrong".
He is great. I am small.
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
It's About being ONE
www.one.org is an organization committed to making poverty history. It’s not as much about raising money for Africa, as it is about raising awareness in the “free-world”: awareness about poverty in one of the largest continents on the planet. The idea is: to use our capitalism, our wealth, our idea of life, to change something for the better in a land long ago written off as the biggest waist of time the western world could ever get it’s hands on, both financially and sociologically.
It’s irresponsible, if we as humans disregard our brothers and sisters, creations of the same creator who created us. Africa is one country. One might say that we have enough homeless in our own land. Why should we be thinking about awareness of poverty in a country, which has nothing to do with us? To him who has been given much, much is required, said Jesus. We need to look after our own. That’s correct. But we are required to help others out of our own wealth. We will in no way be harming our own efforts to get down and dirty, with the poverty stricken of our own country, by engaging in the war on poverty in another land.
Don’t be blind to your responsibility. This isn’t about actionism. It’s about justice. Who is going to bring justice to your neighbor on food stamps and who is going to bring justice for the needy in Africa? It’s about being the hands and the feet of the savior of the world. We are here, endowed with His Spirit to do things, which only his Spirit could do.
It’s time to take this world for Elohim. He has given us the power. Why let it go to waist? Check out www.one.org it’s a cool thing. It wont bring money to Africa, but it might wake up your complacent heart.
By the way: I know it's idealistic, but even Jesus had an idealogy. Those are the things worth living and dying for.
It’s irresponsible, if we as humans disregard our brothers and sisters, creations of the same creator who created us. Africa is one country. One might say that we have enough homeless in our own land. Why should we be thinking about awareness of poverty in a country, which has nothing to do with us? To him who has been given much, much is required, said Jesus. We need to look after our own. That’s correct. But we are required to help others out of our own wealth. We will in no way be harming our own efforts to get down and dirty, with the poverty stricken of our own country, by engaging in the war on poverty in another land.
Don’t be blind to your responsibility. This isn’t about actionism. It’s about justice. Who is going to bring justice to your neighbor on food stamps and who is going to bring justice for the needy in Africa? It’s about being the hands and the feet of the savior of the world. We are here, endowed with His Spirit to do things, which only his Spirit could do.
It’s time to take this world for Elohim. He has given us the power. Why let it go to waist? Check out www.one.org it’s a cool thing. It wont bring money to Africa, but it might wake up your complacent heart.
By the way: I know it's idealistic, but even Jesus had an idealogy. Those are the things worth living and dying for.
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