Last night, after watching IC (again), and having a three hour long conversation about genocides around the world, how to change the world, how to get rid of ignorance, how to decide what to do with all this knowledge about genocides, I felt completely overwhelmed and utterly dumbfounded about what to do next. My heart felt heavy...it physically felt heavy and it hurt. Then, realizing that God can do ANYTHING, and knowing that other people are going to be there, I felt the greatest relief I have ever felt.
I woke up three hours later, and watched an incredible sermon video by Louie Giglio. It was intense. He talked about how God is wild at heart, and how he went against the world. In this world, we are taught to settle for the existing, live the American dream, be comfortable, and our minds are shrinking down to something smaller than what God has put there. All of the things we've done, places we've been, our position, power, things are all going to be gone. We need to live our lives with ETERNAL PURPOSE.
And we are made in God's OWN IMAGE. That is so overwhelming. I am not made in the image of some little nobody with a plain, run-of-the-mill life...I am made like the crazy, inordinate, creative, incredible God!
God BREATHED INTO US when he made us. Think of Adam. First, God picked up some dirt, and made a man IN HIS IMAGE, then he went up to him and exhaled into Adam's nose. THINK OF IT! Adam's first breath that he breathed out was God's breath. And that is what He does with each of us!
We aren't a product of circumstances, or our family, or our upbringing...we are a product of DESTINY.
Jesus wants us to live! Wild, crazy, adventurous lives! Shepherds go AHEAD of sheep (stupid, blind, vulnerable sheep). They lead sheep to a pasture (the fullness of a sheep's life).
THINK about Peter, for instance. He's a fisherman and leaves the family business to follow Jesus (this is crazy. his whole life is about this business and meets this dude, and there is just something about him, that makes him follow Jesus). So then he devotes 3 years of his life to following him. I'm sure Peter had to tell the family that he quit the business so he could wander around...oh you know, he went for a pretty cool boat ride, and walked on some roads. AND THEN, after devoting 3 years of his life to following a guy around, some guards come to arrest and kill the man he is devoted to! As soon as he met this man, his life became crazy and wild. And not only this, but, he left a legacy--a life that didn't end but changed the world.
Your past, circumstances, family, failure, ethnicity don't stop God--he can supersede EVERYTHING!
OR... do a little research on George Washing Carver. God changed the world through this man by using a PEANUT! what?!? yea, that's right.... A PEANUT!
God could blow your mind. Is your story boring? (mine is) Do your circumstances suck? Because God will use you to build a legacy on his story.
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Hey this is unrelated, but I decided to set my blog to private.
If you'd still like access to read it, I'd need your e-mail address.
Only if you care to read it, heh.
Take care and I'm going to come back to read this blog, which I'm pretty sure I'll fall in love with, because you are awesome.
kthanksbye
I just want to let you know that I watched Invisible Children for the first time with you last night.
And that was the last day of my ignorance to what is going on in the world.
I kind of want to go to Uganda now. Like really. Or maybe somewhere else where something is happening (but I just don't know about it because like I said...I have been so ignorant). I want you to help me become more aware.
yay for both of these ^^^
By the way, I like this post.
I'm excited.
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