So, what defines who you are?

March 8, 2012 | Author: Doug

There has been a lot to try to wrap my mind around the last few weeks at church.  The past two evenings have been no exception. Our church once a month or so, will have a Wed. Night service that is dedicated more to praise and worship then to an actual Bible study. We call em’ Passion Night.  The praise and worship team selects a psalm and runs with it. Last week was Psalm 34. I got a lot out of it, but then they give you something that so incredible, so awesome, trying to wrap your mind around it is just plain hard.

God is Holy. His Son, Jesus lived a sinless life. And then there is the Holy Spirit, who is Jesus, Who is God, who is blameless, sinless, perfect, holy, So, now we have ourself. Our sinful nature, all of our yuck. Even on our best day, we don’t come close to measuring up to God’s Holiness. So, what would want to live in that? God loves us so much, that he lets the Holy Spirit live in us, even though we are undeserving, Wow. Like when Christ was Baptised, and the sky’s split open, and the Holy Spirit descended on Christ like a dove. The holy spirit descends to live in us. God, living in Us. Why? Because God Loves us. As wretched as my sin is,  God still loves me and wants to live in me. Wow. So, how does that define me?

I will not let me sinful nature define who I am. I will not let it dictate who I am, I will only be defined through the eyes of Christ. So, who defends who you are?

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Savior, you can move the mountian

March 8, 2012 | Author: Doug

“Savior, you can move the mountains” is one of the songs that I have sung a hundred times in church. (Or is it more of a joyful noise to God, ask my wife). Last week, it seem to make me think a little. Before when I had heard this, I thought of God, moving the mountain. I don’t know if He was up in heaven and reaching down with his hand like a big excavator making truck like noise, or reaching out of heaven and grabbing the mountain and tearing it out of the ground. (I am a guy, that’s the way we think). But last week when we sang it, I got to thinking about the mountains in people’s life. Jesus can move mountains in our life.I thought what  a mountain to me, might be a grain of sand in some one else’s. I mention this because there are so many things I hear from others, about their “mountains” but to me its nothing at all if it were happening in my life That is the part that made me thing. If it’s a mountain in your life, Jesus can move that mountain. And unlike me, to Christ, it’s as big as a mountain to Him as it is to them.

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