4 posts from June 2008

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obsession.


this song has been on my mind a whole lot recently... give it a listen if you have the time... david crowder - obsession.


what can i do with my obsession

with the things i cannot see

is there madness in my being

is it the wind that moves the trees?

sometimes you're further than the moon

sometimes you're closer than my skin

and You surround me like a winter fog

you've come and burned me with a kiss


and my heart burns for you

and my heart burns...for you


and i'm so filthy with my sin

i carry pride like a disease

you know i'm stubborn, lord, and i'm longing to be close

you burn me deeper than i know

and i feel lonely without hope

and i feel desperate without vision

you wrap around me like a winter coat

you come and free me like a bird


my love burns for you

and my heart feels for you

my life good for you 

all i have burns for you you

burns, burns,

my love burns for you

and my heart burns for you

you for you for you

and my heart burns for you

my love burns

my heart feel

my life good

all i have for you 

my love burns

my heart feel

my life good

all i have for you 


obsession
obsession

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Motivation...

here is a quick food for thought... what's your motivation for doing things?... or more importantly, what's your motivation for you to fall in love with jesus more and more?... like have you ever heard of the cheesy christian dating analogy - "as we grow closer to jesus, me and her (or him) grow closer together, its like a triangle with jesus being the top point and we grow towards him," 


... now... does that mean your motivation for falling more in love with christ is because of the person you are dating? or how about the reason for you is because you are a life group leader or have other people in your life looking up to you, so you feel the need you have to grow closer to jesus. is your motivation based on if you are not close to jesus he will not bless you?.. or is your motivation based on the on the 'spiritual high' experience you get when you are close to god? i feel a lot of times that i cheat myself out of the joy of falling in love with jesus by replacing it with a motivation that seems good. and after a while i just become tired and jaded, because i lost sight of the beauty of christ, i lost the only motivation i should have for falling in love with jesus more and more each day - the desperation of him, of how he is the only one that can rescue me and quench the thirst that is so deep in my soul, that beauty that i long for all of my life, finally here... yea, cheat myself from the true joy, the joy of realizing the beauty of christ - the real motivation that i should have for pursuing after jesus.

my prayer is for all us to see and to be reminded the beauty of the cross, and let that be our only motivation for chasing after jesus like fools without a single care in the world. 


one love,
jeff

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Old schooling it.

You know what I realized today... that old old old old OLD school song (for those who grew up in youth group) My All in All. I was in the middle of spending time with Jesus, thinking about how He has carried me through all the broken parts of my life, where everything in my world is shattered to pieces and I am broken on my knees... how He was the strength that carried me through... and for some reason, that song - My all in all, popped into my head. One line of that song goes like - 


You are the strength when I am weak,
You are the treasure that I seek,
You are my all in all.

Then I started to realize... man, it is so easy to let Jesus be our strength when we are weak, perhaps, that's why He breaks us so much to remind us just how good He is, that we do need Him. But, shouldn't that song go like, You are the strength when... all the time? Shouldn't Jesus be our strength not just when we are weak, but even when we feel "strong" (come on seriously, when do we really have our acts together and are really "strong" on our own) What I am saying is this, are we treating Jesus as someone we need and rely on just when things are broken, or is He the only option we have to rely on for everything we do and at any time in our lives. That leads to the second line, You are the treasure that I seek... I mean... this is Jesus we are talking about here... OUR SAVIOR.... the One who rescued us when we are dying... and... He is just... a treasure that we seek? When I think of treasure, I think of the first movie of the Pirates of Caribbean, you know that scene where the two pirates got their loot for their years of pirating, all it was was some elegant dress and a nice umbrella, which then they put on to go out into the waters to lure the nice little British soldiers. I don't want to treat Jesus, my Savior who hung on a the cross for my sins, as some measly dress or any treasure I can think of. Jesus is more than any treasure, Jesus is bigger than just some cosmos-Santa Clause that we like to think of Him as sometimes, Jesus is my Savior, my joy, and my life.

If I can rewrite the song, I would change it to:

You are the strength of all of me
You are the Savior that I desperately need
You are my all in all.

I pray that we will all see Jesus as who He really is, a selfless-servant, God-son, that came for the sake of love and rescued us. 

one love,
jeff



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