Calling to a Generation

Think on this: "And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says, 'I know him' but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may be sure that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked." 1 John 2:3-6

Wow...will you just allow yourself to think on this for five minutes? That's what I'm going to do, just pause and stare at these words for five minutes...and write what I'm thinking--will you do the same?

Comments: okay, first off, what does it really mean to be a Christian? Because if we're figuring out who is a Christian and who is not and we use this verse...we cut a lot of people who attended church out of the picture...
Makes you think: am even I truly a Christian? Do I walk as He walks? Do I know His words well enough, are they deep enough in me, that I follow them throughout my life and find that His love is being perfected in me? For the most part...okay, completely!! I do not measure up! I can think of times when God's words (Scripture) are so a part of me because I'm studying that they are always going through my brain and when I take action I am aware of doing things differently than most because it is right (such as lending a friend a camera worth $1000 for the summer because I am aware that everything I have has been given to me as a gift of God and therefore should be shared freely and not hoarded..and a lot of other times, when I've done or been able to do things I never would have, except that God was moving in my life). Can I honestly say I miss that? I mean, this is the first time in days that I've opened my Bible. I hate that. But so many things grab for our attention, especially in this digital age. I mean, you can spend all day on the internet, so easily...and then that day is gone. Let me analyze what I did today, to my shame and heartbreak: watched an old 1950's sitcom on youtube.com, went on facebook three times, read a couple chapters in a book (after waking up around 9:30 am), made tea, moved a bathtub, walked about 2.5 miles with my siblings and got the mail, read a whole Reader's Digest...you get it, right?

It's not that I was wasting time or that any of those things are evil. I interacted with family, had a good day...but no time for God. No time for me to be alone for five minutes and reflect and let thoughts drop in my head (I'm not even reflecting now, I'm still yammering) The point is, I think we far too easily get caught up in what's going on in our petty, mostly meaningless lives and miss out on the work that God is doing. There are people who wake up everyday to God and say, "I'm yours, use me as you want to. I'm here to serve." I feel as though I am calling to a generation, "RECLAIM YOUR LIVES!" We are such slaves to technology...I know there are people who never leave their computer. Please, live! Make relationships, ones where you really speak with people and let them know what is going on in your heart, relationships where you can look each other in the face and learn to understand one another and be there for one another in the rough times. I feel that's what our generation needs more than anything, that face to face interaction, learning to relate to one another again. Because as long as we're all safe behind our computer screens, we can pretend other people don't exist. We can treat others like dirt and forget love and...do you see where we are going? It's a wide, long dusty path...Come off of it, find the rivers of life and be one with Jesus, abiding in Him. I am preaching to myself here, I feel addicted to being able to stay on the internet all day, I need a change in my own life, a time when I just pause and focus on some of Jesus' words...

Take the time with me, will you? We can't change the world, I know...only the Jesus living in us can do that. Ask Him to be a major part of your life. I'm asking Him...and I know He answers.

I called
You answered
And I'll keep going where You send me
Cause I
Want to be where You are

My whole life I place in Your hands
God of mercy
Humbled I fall down
In Your Presence
At Your throne

In my life
Be lifted high
In my world
Be lifted high
In my love
Be lifted high

-song lyrics slightly altered by me

Dance with Him. Dance for Him. Sing His praise. He's worthy, He's worthy. Remember the cross and cling to the One who thought YOU valuable enough to die for.

I want to learn to walk as He did. Will you join me?

Let Your love become us, Lord.