Hi guys,
Sorry it's been so long since my last post. I've been away at camp after camp after camp after camp. Literally 4 camps, and then I got home to be bed-ridden with the flu for a week. I guess that's what I get for burning the candle at both ends with some of the coolest kids I know. Each camp was so different and uniquely amazing. I feel like God is showing me so much. What is He showing me? That there's gotta be something more than what we, as the American church, are experiencing. Jesus was radical. And his message was equally as radical. And the fruit of that radical message is a radically lived life. Jesus said that those who wish to keep their lives will lose them and those who give their lives for his sake and to his cause will save them. Looking at my life I've realized that there are little (or maybe large) pieces of my life where I say, "You know what Lord, I think I'll keep that one." And my life reflects that desire to hold onto those things. Our purpose on this earth is to glorify God. Period. End of sentence. Am I glorifying God, laying down my life and serving Him with every breath that I take? Definitely not. The truth is that I'm comfortable where I'm at, and that's not a good thing. We need to be breaking out of our comfortable bubbles for the gospel, whether that mean to go to Africa and serve AIDS orphans, to go to downtown LA and feed the homeless or to go to your best friend's house to share the love and message of Jesus with them. The Lord, His word and the souls of men and women are the only things that matter. They are all that will enter into eternity with us, and to put anything (Our pride, comfort, TV, movies, etc.) before those three things is to not live a fully surrendered life. To give much, live passionately, love selflessly and serve unceasingly is to be Jesus' hands and feet on this earth. And the only way we can be and do those things is to make our relationship with our Maker THE top priority above all else. I want to have a hunger for the Word that can't be fully filled and I want to be so connected to my Lord that every prayer from my tongue is His exact same prayer. I'm sorry for the word vomit that is all over your computer screen, but I'm just done being lukewarm. I want to live life for all that it's worth and meant to be, and I hope you'll join in on the journey. The Lord, His Word and the souls of men and women. That's what I'm living for.
