inside: joy, offense, surrender, revival?
In the twists and turns world of Christian culture it is difficult to navigate the “narrow path.” Where it even is, It depends who you talk too.
Luke 18:25 Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
Is the narrow path like the needles eye? Is the narrow path like birth?
I listened to a podcast from Bethel Church in California on my way into work this morning. Good talk overall, but the speaker did what the prophetic types have been doing for years.
Pointing to “revival” as if was once again just around the corner. My boss does this when she gives me my performance review, “Just do such and so by this date and I will give you a such and so raise.” Then when I do it she forgets…
Naive me I never get it in writing. Like a carrot on a stick and the illusive raise the promised revival never comes…or does it?
I like prophetic types but somehow I wonder why they can’t see the very thing they long for is right at hand.
Mark 1:15 “The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the good news!”
The Kingdom of God IS near.
Better yet…Luke 17:21 nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is within you.”
You are the revival. It is here now, you have as much of Him in you as you ever will, God himself is in you and effects all those around you because you carry him where you go.
He is love itself.
Revival began at pentecost. Looking for something which is in us is like saying you are starving after Thanksgiving Dinner.
Our charge is to give give give it away. That’s how we keep it.
The Joy of the Lord offends us because we are sitting on our hands expecting something that is already here. We keep missing the illusive revival which is at hand.
Why?
It’s our frikken belly button, we are to busy navel gazing.
You have 100% as much of 100% of God here and now.
to be continued…
