I am currently organising the July DTS 2012, and doing whatever is required for setting that up. Also I am leading a connect team, which is a team that on Saturday instead of hanging with the crew at our program youth street, we go and try and talk to those out there wherever they are at, and reach them out there. It has been really encouraging so far, but hopefully more to come. Also we are planning to bible drop/door-knock our whole neighbourhood, so we are trying to organise a whole bunch of bibles and get some prayer going on in every street that we will deliver too.
Well, that's a quick update on what I'm up to, as usual I would love to hear from you!
The Heart of the Father.
This post comes out of what i was reading today. I am started again at Genesis, and today i was reading of the flood, Noah, etc. Gen 6:6 stood out to me, and I would like to share it with you.
"The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain."
This passage speaks a lot to us, in what it implies. Many would look at this and say of course he would, He is a mean
merciless God, hating the fact that he made man, and so now we are paying for it.
Let's hope that not us saying these things hey? For when we take the time to work this out, we find that there is an incredible
depth and heart behind this.
Firstly, let us consider here, in plain, straightforward text, the Lord can be grieved. WOW, our God, the King of all,
can be hurt. Not physically, but emotionally. Not only that, but he can be hurt by us, and I would also probably say that he can ONLY be hurt by us. Nothing else can hurt him like we do.
We are His dearly beloved. He is open to us, and vulnerable to us. What a privilege! That the God of heaven is open to you and
me, purely because he wants a relationship with us, and openness and vulnerability are the only ways to achieve intimacy in any form of relationship.
He hurt like only a Father can when their Child is disobedient and hurting themselves. When they are walking that road of death
and destruction. And when pain fills their life, it is not only their pain, but the pain is shared by the Father and Mother.
I will not go for long today, but end with what it brought to my mind.
Am I hurting God in any way through my actions, or lack thereof? Am I causing Him pain, and I grieving Him as his children did
in that day?
To such an extent as them, no I am not, but I did realise that I had started performing again. I had let my relationship with God
become less than that. It became a fantastic job, but he didn't die for a job, Jesus died for a relationship.
He wants my heart.
He wants your heart.
Does He have it right now?
Let me encourage you, it takes so little to restore that relationship. He does the work, we just have to be willing. We have
to be open to Him, to pull us back, and into His arms.
I love you guys, be blessed and let His light shine through you!
Daniel