Saturday, May 3, 2008

Thought #28

Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his 
name;
bring an offering, and come into his 
courts!
- Psalm 96: 8

She said it was bright and sunny over there.  Sandal weather.  And she said that I sounded so far away especially when I told her it was raining.  "But the rain is a good thing," she said.

So much of this world is different even in the same moment.  Even clock hands point different ways, but the conversation could be happening at the same time.  What I'm trying to say is our God is not a God of the "same."  Not one who prefers routine.  Or schedules.  Or life copied and duplicated as if no beauty existed at all.  As if nothing grew wild.  The world tamed.  Put in a cage somewhere in some laboratory like God got bored, made an assembly line and re-lived the same exact moment over and over again.

We all know that we're different, right?  That we don't want to be just some number living some Orwellian fantasy?  Maybe we acknowledge this blue-eyed v. brown-eyed fact, and maybe it's that we don't live it.  That we don't truly comprehend the fact that we are unique.

I mean, we say we're different, but then at Church it's like we're all the same.  We sing the same words, we recite the same prayers, we act accordingly with the Christian culture.  We agree with the same statements like abortion is murder, homosexuality is an abomination, thou shall not become drunk, and then go preach the Word unto all the world.  And all I'm saying is do we understand these ideologies or are we just in agreement with our pastor's sermon because being the same is the easy thing to do.

I'm not saying that being of one accord is wrong because it's not (Acts 2:44).  It's just we need to know our God for ourself.  We need to "bring an offering."  We need to bring ourself - different.  Unique.  

So when you come before God, know yourself.  Know your God for who He is.  Then know you for who He created you to be.  And bring your own offering.

She told me she was going out tonight.  And I said, "I'm going out now, but I just woke up."  

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