Its Not About Me (or You)

God woke me up this morning with two passages of scripture on my mind. One is John 14:6. Jesus says He is the Way and the Truth and the Life and that He is the only way to the Father. I have always taken that verse to apply to the fact that Jesus not Buddha or Mohammed is the only way to come to know the real God. But what about us as Christians, how does this apply to our lives now. It says that Jesus not what I think or perfer or feel comfortable about is the way not only to God but to please Him. I have for most of my Christian life serve God for I could get out of it. I wanted the church to grow so I would look good. I wanted people to like my sermons becasue it made me feel good. I also began to think that since I was serving God that He owned me something. Thus when I  prayed I expected God to give me what I prayed for because as a "good" Christian, He owned it to me. Which brings me to the other passage that God impressed on me this morning which is Hosea 13:6. It says "When I feed them, they were satisfied; when they became satisfied, they became pround; then they forgot me." That was me (and still is at times). I would get blessed by God and think it was becuse I deserved it and then when I didn't get what I wanted I would have a pity party and be mad at God. Pride tells me that I deserve all the good stuff from God and when I don't get it God is not loving me like I deserve. John 14:6 says however, that Jesus is everything and that I am to center my life around Him making Him what life is all asbout and trusting His love for me and His goodness and believing that all that He allows into my life is for my good. Even if I can't see it at the time. I want to serve God because He deserves it. I want Jesus to be the focus and priority of my life because He deserves that because He died for me (for us). God has been Raising the Roof of my life and letting me release my pride to Him so He can fill me with humilty and Removing the Walls of my life so I can humbly love others.     

Rasing the Roof and Removing the Walls

The time has come for the church in America to be honest, we have focused on ourselves and not on what God wants. It is time that we Raise the Roof (become open and honest with God) and Remove the Walls (be transparent to the world). This blog I pray will be used by Jesus to help us as His church to remove barriers from our lives and our churches so that God's Spirit can fill us and use us as His people for His glory. And that we will be a dispaly case for the awesomeness of God to be seen by a culture that needs Him because we are broken.

I would love to hear from people who desire for Jesus to not just be part of their lives, but to be their lives. Who desire to completely surrender thier lives to Him and who hunger and thirst to fully know Him.