Hey, folks. Just read a quote from Donald Miller(a author) earlier today. It's a brief and straight to the point message:
"I remember the first time I feelings for Jesus. It wasn't very long ago. I had gone to a conference on the coast with some Reed students, and a man spoke who was a professor at a local Bible college. he spoke mostly about the Bible, about how we should read the Bible. he was convincing. he seemed to have an emotional relationship with the Book...
When i got back home from the conference, I felt like my Bible was calling me..... By the time I got to the end of Luke, to the part where they were trying to kill him again, where they were going to stretch Him out on a cross, something shifted within me. I remember it was cold outside, crisp, and the leaves on the tree of the park across the street were getting tired and dry. And I remember sitting at my desk, and i don't know what it was that I read or what Jesus was doing in the book, but I felt love for Him rush through me, through my back and into my chest. I started crying.
I remember thinking that I would follow Jesus anywhere, that it didn't matter what he asked me to do. I think the most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus.
I know our culture will sometimes understand a love for Jesus as weakness. There is this lie floating around that says I am supposed to be able to do life alone, without any help, without stopping to worship something bigger than myself. But I actually believe there is something bigger than me, and I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside of me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.
If you haven't done it in a while, pray and talk to Jesus. Ask Him to become real to you. Ask Hime to fogive you of self-addiction, ask Him to put a song in your heart."....
He leaves the readers with 3 questions after those words.
1. When was the first time you experienced a love for Christ?
2. How has your love for Christ grown since you came to know Him?
3. How can you come to know Him better and to love Him more?
Those are some really good questions to ask yourself. I had a good time answering those questions myself. I enjoyed thinking about how much has taken place in my life since I started truely following Christ at the age of 16. In remembering the good and bad times, I've realized how much I have to be thankful for. I posted a video below. If you have time to watch it, give it a look...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-2dKOfbC9c&feature=spotlight
"I remember the first time I feelings for Jesus. It wasn't very long ago. I had gone to a conference on the coast with some Reed students, and a man spoke who was a professor at a local Bible college. he spoke mostly about the Bible, about how we should read the Bible. he was convincing. he seemed to have an emotional relationship with the Book...
When i got back home from the conference, I felt like my Bible was calling me..... By the time I got to the end of Luke, to the part where they were trying to kill him again, where they were going to stretch Him out on a cross, something shifted within me. I remember it was cold outside, crisp, and the leaves on the tree of the park across the street were getting tired and dry. And I remember sitting at my desk, and i don't know what it was that I read or what Jesus was doing in the book, but I felt love for Him rush through me, through my back and into my chest. I started crying.
I remember thinking that I would follow Jesus anywhere, that it didn't matter what he asked me to do. I think the most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus.
I know our culture will sometimes understand a love for Jesus as weakness. There is this lie floating around that says I am supposed to be able to do life alone, without any help, without stopping to worship something bigger than myself. But I actually believe there is something bigger than me, and I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside of me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.
If you haven't done it in a while, pray and talk to Jesus. Ask Him to become real to you. Ask Hime to fogive you of self-addiction, ask Him to put a song in your heart."....
He leaves the readers with 3 questions after those words.
1. When was the first time you experienced a love for Christ?
2. How has your love for Christ grown since you came to know Him?
3. How can you come to know Him better and to love Him more?
Those are some really good questions to ask yourself. I had a good time answering those questions myself. I enjoyed thinking about how much has taken place in my life since I started truely following Christ at the age of 16. In remembering the good and bad times, I've realized how much I have to be thankful for. I posted a video below. If you have time to watch it, give it a look...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-2dKOfbC9c&feature=spotlight