A God Moment

Last night I went to a David Crowder Band concert put on by the Church of God Convention in Michigan. Little did I know what God had in store for me...

I've always appreciated hymns - their authors and the history behind them. But I never really liked hymns. (My generation has this problem). So I never really expected to have a major God moment while singing a hymn.

Until last night.

DCB broke out the hymn Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing. I've never heard a rock version of this hymn before - it was incredible. Here are some of the words that we sang... "O to grace how great a debtor daily I'm constrained to be! Let thy goodness, like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to thee. Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love; here's my heart, O take and seal it, seal it for thy courts above."

Now, I have no idea what the heck a fetter is. Obviously it's something that binds...

But the TRUTH of this verse and PASSION/EMOTION of the music combined in one defining God moment. I've never been able to praise God as freely as I did last night. The intense and ferocious love that He has for me, my incredible debt that He completely demolished, the stupid decisions I make on a daily basis, and the commitment I've made to him as a kid of the King of Kings - all of these thoughts came crashing down on me all at once.

I wept.

A lot.

Then we sang Amazing Grace - acapella... and God just took me right to my knees. I've always wanted to bow before God during a worship service - but that stupid pride that I have in me always kept me from it. Last night - I didn't have a choice. Why? Because God knelt with me. TOGETHER, we re-committed my passions, my summer, my goals, my dreams, my will, my love, my energy, my time, my life...

To Him.

Two Risks Have Begun

God's convicted me about two specific risks that I'm taking action on this week. Please pray that God will bless these efforts. One is a relational issue that needs to be resolved - the second risk has to do with material things.

By the way - I'm finishing Blue Like Jazz this week.

It has changed my life.

YOU need to read it.

No, seriously.

Quote #1

"The ability to accept God's unconditional grace and ferocious love is all the fuel we need to obey him in return."

- Donald Miller (author of Blue Like Jazz).

My Summer Focus

God has given me a new focus for Summer '07.

RISK

My life is too safe. I'm going to be focusing on risks in a two step process this summer. Here's how it's going to look.

1) Study - I'm going to study God's Word doing character studies of those people who were models of "risk-taking" in the Bible.

2) Action - I'm going to prayerfully find out what risks God wants me to take. After God shows me a certain risk - I'm going to attack it and passionately act on faith.

Please pray for me - keep checking the blog for updates!!!