Last night campfire was so good!!! It was really hard for me at the same time because of all the brokeness in the room. I grow so attatched to the people that come through Quest and when they express fears about returning home it rips me apart. It reminds me of the dark and cruel world that we live it. It is getting harder and harder to live our faith out in America. I wish that we could all walk through life together, supporting one another. But that is not what called has called us to do.
The Lord gave me a beautiful picture in my mind last night in the midst of my brokeness. I saw a group of young people, those who came to Quest, walking out into the darkness with some firewood and matches in their hand. As they walked off in separate directions from camp the picture panned out into a map where you could see all across dallas and texas and the united states and then all the way to europe. Little lights started to flicker like little specks all across the map as the Quest kids began to stoke their fires. As I continued to watch, the little specks began to grow and burn brighter and brighter. More specks formed around the bright specks and God began to move in mighty ways across the country.
All from a small group of high school kids God chose to bear his light into the darkness. Then I began to be comforted. Quest, we are supposed to go back home.
I was reading in James 1 this morning because we have been getting so much out of it in our inductives and this verse really stuck out:
"For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his face in the mirror. For he looks at himself in the mirror and immediately walks away and forget what he looks like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be bless in his doing." James 1:25
Let us not forget what the Lord taught us, but may we shine like stars reflecting Jesus Christ in a dark world.
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ReplyDeleteI’m a part of the Fellowship of the Unashamed.
I have Holy Spirit power.
I’ve stepped over the line.
The decision has been made.
I’m a disciple of His.
I won’t look back, let up, slow down, back away or be still.
My past redeemed, my present makes sense, my future is secure.
I’m finished and done with low living, sidewalking, small-planning, smooth-knees, colorless dreams, tame visions, worldly-talking, cheap-giving, and dwarfed goals.
I no longer need pre-eminence, position, promotion, applause or popularity.
I don’t have to be right, first, tops, recognized, praised, regarded or rewarded.
I now live by faith, lean on His presence, walk by patience.
I’m uplifted by prayer, and labour by power.
My face is set, my gait is fast, my goal is heaven, my road is narrow, my way is rough, my companions are few, my God reliable.
My mission is clear.
I cannot be bumped, compromised, detoured, lured away, turned back, deluded or delayed.
I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the presence of my adversaries, negotiate at the table of my enemy or ponder at the pool of popularity.
I won’t give up, shut up, let up until I’ve stayed up, stored up, prayed up, preached up for the cause of Christ.
I am a DISCIPLE OF JESUS.
this was done by infiltrate- worth dying for.
i love this and explains how i feel about my world
Hey Ya'll
ReplyDeleteI just read 1 Corinthians chapter 13 and it talked about love. And how no matter what you do or what you have without love you truly have nothing! I would just like to thank you guys for showing me an amazing love over the past week, i am never going to forget it and i hope that each one of ya'll continue to love like you did. Because it is an amazing feeling to receive that love and it will bring so many people closer to christ!
I love ya'll so much! thank you!
Katie Romanow