Goodness, my last post was... Forever ago! Actually, I'm frankly just too lazy to check. Bah! Fine, I'll check it. Gosh. April 29! I haven't posted at all this month! I guess I've been in a bit of a funk lately. For awhile actually. For starters, I've been having trouble thinking up stuff to write. Let me tell you, that does not transfer well into school life!
So, today at church, we had a guest speaker. And his sermon was simple, short, and sweet. My favourite service of the past like, four weeks I think. His basic message was this: What do we have to be afraid of, when we've got the creator of everything scary on our sides? Why be afraid of the sea when our lover is the creator of the sea? Or heights, when our God created depth and height, the ground, and buildings? There's nothing in this world to fear, because OUR God controls all. He used a lovely description of it with the story of the disciples in the boat, when the storm comes along. And what is Jesus doing? Sleeping! I love it! During the chaos, Jesus finds peace. The disciples, scared out of their wits however, awake him shouting "we're all gonna die!". Jesus gets up, says "shut up" to the wind(or at least that's how I imagine it. The Bible only really says that he rebukes the wind. But can you picture Jesus just going "Hey, wind? Shut UP" and then it stops! So cool!) Anyway, after everything is calmed, the disciples are in awe. And Jesus just says "Where is your faith?".
Where is your faith?
Pretty epic question, I gotta admit. Something we all need to find ourselves answering at some point in our lives. I'd like to say that my faith is rooted heavily in Jesus Christ, but sometimes I find myself wavering from that. I feel like there's so much that I can't rely just on Him on, things that I need to work on. But really. He's got me taken care of. He's guiding my life, He's got me under his wing. What happens, well, it happens. And it's all for the better. I've been working so hard on faith lately. I feel like it's one of my "Spiritual Gifts", so to speak. But, when I see people like George Muller, who's life is COMPLETELY centered on his faith in God. It just makes me feel small. How can my faith ever be that strong? I can't even trust God to guide me in a relationship; so it'd be a big step for me to trust Him with EVERY facet of my life! But that's what I want... I want to be able to do that. It may sound silly, I don't know. But I want to be know as a man of incredible faith. To me, that alone would make me happy. But it's a tough journey I'm gonna have to make towards it.
A song we recently started doing in church has been echoing in my mind these past two weeks. It's called "Your Love Never Fails" by Chris Quilala, and it's so epic. Bradley is the one who introduced me to it, so thanks to him! It's such a great song. It goes:
Chorus:
You stay the same through the ages
Your love never changes
There may be pain in the night
But joy comes in the morning
And when the oceans rage
I don’t have to be afraid
Because I know that you love me
And your love never fails
And then at the end, he repeats these words:
You make all things, work together for my good
That song is so great :) it's so encouraging and comforting. God's love NEVER fails.
Anyway... Ciao!
6 comments:
Ok, so yeah. Great post.
I have got to admit, I don't know you THAT much, but you still seem like a man of incredible faith, from what I know.
Thanks Matt :)
Not a problem, Mikey, my friend! I mean it too, you do seem like a man of incredible faith... and if that's how you want to be known, you're well on your way.
I would agree with Matt B., you have great faith and the Spirit is nurturing it and causing it to grow. Bless you, Mikey!
Meekah, not only do I see you as a man of incredible faith, but a man with an incredible voice to articulate it, and an incredible passion to love God and others. You have a gift, and you are a gift. Your middle name even means "gift of peace". Your first name, btw, means "Who is like the Lord?!" And I just want you to know that you definitely fill the large shoes of your name.
I have to agree, Mikey, you do have an incredible voice to articulate it. I've just seen that in all your blog posts -- Most, if not all of your posts are about God/religion/etc... they're great. And you also have an incredible passion to love God and others... I agree with both of those things. You're an awesome guy, dude.
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