Foundations

“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.” Mathew 7:24-27

A couple of years ago a friend of mine started talking about a book that would go on to change my life. The book opened a new chapter of my life and changed my life and my perspective on who I am as a person forever. I was never going to be the same again. I read the book and found out more about myself than I thought was possible. It was called "Wild at Heart".

The book may not be very relevant to what I'm about to write, but it is in some ways connected. The paths that we take in our spiritual journeys are various and different. I'm excited to hear about these, what makes God so beautiful is that He makes everything different, nothing is ever the same. He prefers not to be boring, He likes to be different. 

Even though the roads that we take are different and should be rightfully so, the REASON shouldn't. 

Most people pursue God because of social pressures, they want to fit in, their parents are Christian, they have nowhere else to go, they want to impress that guy or girl in church. That can't be your foundation. Or your spiritual house will come crashing down. No matter what you do there can't be any other REASON other than Christ that you are pursuing your spiritual journey.

God is that solid foundation. 

There is no other.

I at times pursued spirituality for reasons that weren't completely Godly. And I have learnt my lessons. God loves us none the less, we're still learning. But our reason must be Christ. 

Performance

"If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." -1 John 1:8

"But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." -Romans 5:8

The world that we're living in right now, is all about outdoing everyone. Not just in these corporate jungles that most of us are making our way through, but even in our personal lives its always about outdoing each other. Even in serving God, sometimes, I feel like I must outdo everyone. But the truth is that sometimes we fall short, I especially have been falling short quite a bit lately and if you read my previous posts, God has been teaching me about grace and has been continually refining me.

God is continually working on his art and the most beautiful thing about art is it never remains the same.

Being so focused on our performance we feel that we need to hit that level in order to be pleasing to Christ, but the matter of fact is in our brokenness Jesus came to make us whole again. And He continues to do that every single day. Every morning that I wake up broken from last night, Jesus comes save me again.

It's not about performance, the points we've scored, the good deeds we've done for the day, those come by themselves once we have a relationship with God.

Falling in love with God and who He is has helped me do things I wouldn't ordinarily do and see things.

Glimpses

Patience.

Key to everything we are doing right now. There is chaos all around us, most of which is created by people, but the key is to be patient and patience only comes from love. Unconditional, funny, strange, clumsy love that comes through, when nothing else is coming through.

That kind of love used to confuse me and I thought maybe didn’t exist. I heard about it and fascinated me, but then I started to see glimpses.

The glimpses started increasing to the point where a picture was starting to form. The picture has overtime become very clear. That picture is the love of God, that we experience through Christ.