All I Can Hear Is The Sound Of Your Voice...

Ever have questions for God? Ever wanted to know His plan for you? Well shoot...I have...like, everyday...Especially now with college decisions and such...But I think I have figured out how to never be wrong...Just base your decision on God and what He wants...Ha...Can't go wrong...There's this song by Radial Angel called "Your Voice"...Basically it talks about falling down before God, praising Him, and just living in Him...Then all decisions we need to make are going to be easier to make because we are so in tune to God that we just live on as if that is the way it is supposed to be...Well heck, that IS the way it is supposed to be...During the last few months I went through a freaking crazy phase with choosing a college for next year...I finally felt at peace after awhile when I realized that God was going to use me anywhere...And this peace came when I "heard" a few words from God over and over...."Remain in me"...That's all...Just remain in God and all things will flow out...It almost sounds too easy or stupid to be true or work...(Southern accent) "Well shucks, I tell ya, by golly it works like a charm." Maybe my humor sucks...Oh well... :) So yeah, that's kind of what I believe...That if you are remaining in God by doing devos and such and giving Him your day, every day, realizing He is God and you are not, that all decisions will be easier and more peaceful because you know they are straight from God, with no static or a fuzzy picture...
All we hear is the sound of God's voice...All day, everyday...

"Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me."
John 15:4

Let Love In...

From The Ragamuffin Gospel....

The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God, "They won't let me in Lord, because I am a sinner."
"What are you complaining about?" said God. "They won't let Me in either."

Something Is Radically Wrong...

Well, yeah, so...Started this pretty sweet book called The Ragamuffin Gospel...Wow is all I can say...Brennan Manning (author) is a genius...Within the first 4 pages I was already questioning things about my own life and the life of Christian society...He first goes into the idea of grace, and how there are way too many Christians who believe they have to earn grace...Maybe it's just me, but doesn't this totally go against what God's grace is? Doesn't this water down something so awesome and powerful that a human cannot possibly comprehend? Isn't it us just trying to put God in our own little box of understanding? We are trying to become comfortable with who we are and what we do, so at the first sign of something outside of our viewing window we cringe and try to crumple it up into a little cell that fits in our brains...My friends, this is NOT was God's unending grace is...It is not something we are to ever mortally understand...How could we? How could we ever understand how someone loves us more than all humanity put together ever could? How could we comprehend how someone could love us NO MATTER what we do... No matter if we are saved...No matter if we have it all together...No matter if we don't know what the inside of a church looks like...No matter if we shake our fist at Him and never want anything to do with Him again...He still loves us, and wants us to be with Him in heaven at the end of the earth...So we have to stop trying to impress God with what do...With what we are involved in...With what we look like, talk like, walk like...and start inside of ourselves with out hearts...We gotta let Him have it because He will pour into it so much love that you just wannna burst...Realize that the gift of grace from God is bigger than anything your head will ever mortally be able to understand...Great paragraph here from Manning..."Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace."

"It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' FOR I HAVE NOT COME TO CALL THE RIGHTEOUS, BUT SINNERS."
Matthew 9:12-13

See the Awesomeness of Your God...

It's been awhile...My bad...
Once again...God just blows my mind to pieces...Honestly, there is nothing left...Anways...I was reading the tail end of Buck-Naked Faith by Eric Sandras and he has this section about seeing God through every distraction put in front of you...he focused a lot on worship, which tends to shoot right up my alley...I've been thinking a lot about this too, and what it means to me...Basically...worship is more than just a 30 minute session at church with music and singing...Worship moves beyond our feeble, mortal selves and into a whole different realm where we meet with God and become in Him and He enters into us...God's presence should be so close to our freaking faces that when we leave our time of worship, however long that may be, we can't help but see Him everywhere...Worship and The Word must become more than just events on a Sunday morning...They need to turn into an attitude that so magnifies God that we can't help but see Jesus in EVERYTHING...
A few places in the Bible I love to read about worship....Check out Isaiah 6...It talks about the angels Isaiah sees and hears worshipping God...He hears a noise that would pretty much blow away any surround sound system you can find at Best Buy or Circuit City...Verse 4: "At the sound of their voices the doorposts and threshholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke." This wasn't a movie...Isaiah got to experience the real deal...Worship to the max...Shoot, his eardrums echoed...He felt sensations he never had before...Another place...Check out Psalms 139...Not kidding, this blows me away everytime...Too much to even put in here, so look it up... :) David just goes on about the awesomeness of God and how He knows every crevice, every fiber in out body...Even when we sin...He still wants us...Holy mother...
Even something as "little" as a sunset makes me want to stare forever at this creation...I just don't get how something so beautiful was conceived and made so that we may worship in different forms...
Please God, never let me water you down and forget how big you are...I know You don't need us, but you want us...Sin and all...Thanks for putting up with me and being with me no matter what I do...I am sinner reaching out my hand, and You take it everytime.............

I want God to blow my mind away so that all that is left is my heart...He tries...I just don't listen and see...