Get Closer Takes A Break
Hey, we are gonna take a break. No Get Closer for the next two weeks, August 16 and 23. We will start back on the 30th. Check back to see where, school will start that week.
posted by Kevin at
3:24 PM
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I have been thinking about something a lot lately. It is pretty funny actually that God has been placing this on my heart now, since I am fixing to leave the country for a very long time, and since I probably won’t be able to talk to a whole lot of my friends at Samford when I am away. But the question, thought, whatever, has been “How is God going to use me?” This isn’t some sort of poor-pitiful-me question, but a thoughtful, sincere, right now in this moment how will God use me kind of question. My God is a huge, very powerful, and totally excellent God. The God I worship knows my heart, my limitations, my fears, and despite all of these things still promises that if I trust in him, I will become righteous like him.
One thing I know is that there are a lot of hurting, broken people around me. Their hearts feel a different way inside their chests. Maybe they’re heavier. Maybe they feel empty. All I know is that God has put me smack dab in the middle of two very different worlds. One world resembles a Kumbaya campfire with lots of smores and endless repetitions of Shout to the Lord. When the smores run out and the fire dies, all that’s left is a bunch of boring Christians singing an awfully old song.
Then there is another world full of broken people longing to be a part of a campfire, but aren’t offered anything more than a heart warming sugar rush, and decide to run in the other direction seeking a life that is real and has feeling. I am not saying that the campfire Christian is not sincere or genuine in their deepest heart of hearts, if that is what they truly are. But how appealing is it really? How appealing is a life if it has no relevance, has no realness? The heart cry of the people I see all around me resounds one thing in unison. They long to see believers who hurt, and struggle, and cry, and cuss, and praise, and pray, and love, and love, and love.
I guess what I am trying to say here is that my God is above all limitations and he can use me no matter where I am. My God is a real, relevant, down to earth God who pleads for us to reflect His image. My God sees the hurting and suffering and doesn’t pretend it doesn’t exist but reaches down, embraces our brokenness and loves, and loves, and loves.
You go Haley, good thought.
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