After being in Kentucky for nearly a month now i've started to feel an extreme sense of loneliness, and I highly dislike said feelings. So this weekend I decided to take a trip to Indiana... it's only a 3 hour drive so no skin off my back. The drive was nice and quiet but the beautiful thing about it was the sky. It was really dark and not many cars were on the road but still... the way the lights in the distance collided with the dark sky, it conceived this beautiful shade of dark purple but the shades went from lightish purple at the bottom to dark at the top... to a photoshop nerd... i call this a gradient. So I texted my friend Jamie who's in Los Angeles California right now doing some awesome mission stuff but but I texted her how God was good and told her the same thing about the purple sky. She told me how she felt the same way... she had just watched the sun go down behind the ocean and it made me think... how awesome is it that God is great... even to two people thousands of miles apart. Our God is so big that He is blessing people EVERYWHERE at the same time. This is obviously a given. We know this... but it was until I stopped to think about it and tried to grasp this idea of Gods love. I keep coming back to the hebrew word "agape". That word has been on my heart like crazy lately. Passion... God has a PASSION for us... a longing for His children to feel His love and embrace Him. How often do we do this though. Sure, we pray... but do we take a second to actually enter into this nirvana state or however you would put it where we actually are just speaking to God... a conversation. We as believers in Christ get to do that WHENEVER we so choose. I know that for me, one on one conversations with my friends are some of the most exciting things in my life... but how awesome is it when we get to have a one on one conversation the King, the Creator... and there's no term that the human mind or heart can grasp to do Him justice.
I was talking to my friend Mason who lives in Indiana about faith and how I feel as if we as Christians are just acknowledging that there's a God but not actually living it out.. it's being seen in our everyday lives. The book "Sex God" by Rob Bell puts it into a beautiful perspective. We are marked by God. When our grandmothers kiss us... there's always this residue of lipstick left over... well God has kissed us... and marked us with lipstick. I suck as putting things like this into perspective but still... it's beautiful. Mason said something that was awesome though... he said ," faith with out action is nothing". So true. It's when we strap our boots on and get our cowboy gear ready that change starts. And it starts with us first.
I met some awesome folks while I was here in Indiana. But my favorite would have to be a lovely little lady by the name of Brittany Arnold. She's Mason's girlfriend but she has such an exuberant spirit and just a fun person to be around. I don't say that meaning Mason sucks... because Mason has been such a blessing to me as well as Justin "Vandetta". But this was the group I hung out with tonight and I have to tell you... my faith is being restored through conversations with just simple God honoring people. I love how we're all just "kids" and yet we have this desire to just love God and love people. We see the need for these walls to be broken.
Final paragraph, don't fret... I was on facebook this past week and I posted a comment about if we ever stopped to wonder why the church was so screwed up... and it's because we as believers... the supposed examples of who Christ was... are so sucky. So I will close here with what I posted there. It's for we has followers in Christ to love.... love the broken... find the lost and bring them back home... it's time for us to fight. This is a call to arms... arms of love and it's time or us to claim what is rightfully not ours, but Christs alone. Will you answer?
Be blessed as I have been,
Jordan
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