What is it all about really? Just a better life for us? Just an excitement? A happy feeling?
God is the center isn't He? Isn't He the unchangeable core of everything we see...? We know...? It's His universe... It's His earth... We are the guests... We are the ones who must adapt to Him. He doesn't bend to us...
We sing songs and live our lives like somehow He will bless and improve what we want and what we do... Instead we should be seeking out how it all really works, and adapt our lives to that... Adapt our thoughts and expectations... Adapt our expectations, if we don't just relinquish them entirely...
Why do we seek the power of the Holy Spirit? Is it not to understand Him and to have compassion on our fellow people here? Do we wanna see a healing cyz it's cool or because we feel for the person sick or injured? Do we want to know God more so we understand how He works, or to find the promises we like that make our lives better... More comfortable... More profitable...
I read that true religion is serving the widows and the orphans... I read that Jesus walked the earth in love and compassion... Healing because He cared... Teaching cuz He loved. Dying not to make us feel good, but to satisfy the eternal requirements of an absolute God. Because it was the only way that His love and compassion could fit with the demands of righteousness...
It is God's universe. It follows God's law. We are the visitors... The guests... Here for a very brief time.
That our perspectives would be changed and renewed... That we would move ourselves to the periphery, and let that absolute, unchanging God be where He really is... That we stop thinking about how our relationship with Him was about making things better for us, but instead figure out how it would be better to Him... And to the principles that He built the universe on... Like love. Compassion. Truth. Grace. Righteousness. It's not about His promises and hoe He reaches out to us... It's about His will and how we reach out to Him, and each other...
Just some thoughts during worship on 8/28/2011
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