NOT POSTING FOR A WHILE….TAKING A BREAK!!!! FROM WHAT? I DON’T KNOW
Archive for May, 2007
Just after posting my last comment I started to read my “Life Journal” This is one of the Scriptures: 2nd Thessalonian 1:5 “All this trouble is a clear sign that God has decided to make you fit for the kingdom. You’re suffering now, but justice is on the way”…….strange right?
My sister called telling me dad was taken to the hospital. Then my brother called me to let me know that dad is very weak and I should travel to Mexico. Six years without being able to leave this country! Lord, is this worth it? am I making the difference in the lives of people?……please Lord what else, what else do you have in mind?……………….because some times I don’t get it.
During the year we celebrate so many birthdays at Connection, and the more the congregation grows the more presents Paula and I need to buy. We have guys presents that are more difficult to buy, girls are very easy, children are the easiest. But because of the amount of celebrations we could easily spend a lot of our income buying presents. I don’t like to give a present just because I need to give one. I like to think about the person and buy what I think this person would like. But to be honest, lately I have bought the cheapest thing I can find or just get the most wonderful invention of the century: the gift card. This card is so easy because you can get it everywhere, from the local Mexican restaurant or a any other store you may think. I believe this is a cheap way to buy a birthday present but the more convenient. It is convenient because I don’t have to sacrifice a lot of “my time” to find the perfect gift for that specific person.
I wonder what I am giving to God that is not a sacrifice. Is my service to Him just something comfortable for me to give or it is requiring me a costly price? am I giving our of my convenience? King David faced this when Araunah offered him a free ox for his burnt offering to God, he responded, “No. I’ve got to buy it from you for a good price; I am not going to offer God, my God, sacrifices that are not sacrifice”(2 Samuel 24:25)
How costly has been my sacrifice to the Lord? has it? or do I still give Him what I have left to give? This is my thought for today, that by the way is my b’day, (just 37 years old). What kind of sacrifice am I giving to Abba? One that takes away my time, strength, soul and mind or just a gift card? Sometimes I can say that I like to give God a “heavenly gift card” then he can just get what He needs from me and…..that’s it!!! very convenient right?
Everything went really good in my dad’s surgery, but still all the week my heart was not here in Cookeville. It has been more then 6 years since the first time I touched American soul and I haven’t go back to visit Mexico. Anyway Matthew 19:28-30 says, “anyone who sacrifices home,family, fields-whatever-because of me will get it all back a hundred times over”.
About church I don’t know what to say, sometimes I feel the people is excited about what the Lord is doing, sometimes I feel they are afraid of “stepping on faith” and believe God can do even greater things. I still feel stuck and I don’t know how to leave that!!!
We are still looking for a worship leader with the heart to worship, but at the same time with a desire to teach others about it……..an area we have battle since the beginning.
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