April 16, 2009
Generation
To this generation of the future, the generation of change, action, love, hope, desire, forgiveness, responsibility, and of a revolution,
We are the future and I don't like the way the future looks with us. A jumpstart would be nice or even a push from behind because we aren't going anywhere. Maybe we are lost. A lost generation in a dark world that doesn't know even where to begin. We need to seek something or better yet, someone. I was in chapel today and we sang the words, "Oh God let us be a generation that seeks. That seeks Your face." So God is what we are striving for. He is our fearless leader that shall lead us into the world and little by little through revolutionary acts of love we shall overcome. This is not a war or a battle. Our enemies our not the liberals, conservatives, gays, hippies, terrorists, abortionists, or evolutionists. Our enemies are the principalities and powers of this present darkenss.
It is time to come back. To come back to the center, where the heart of the darkness lies, and begin anew. Too much do we just coast through life on the outsides avoiding the middle by just running around it. We don't face are problems, we just evolve around it. We need to seek God because we all can't be the leaders of ourselves because we'll all mess up.
So let us be a generation that seeks God.
We are the future and I don't like the way the future looks with us. A jumpstart would be nice or even a push from behind because we aren't going anywhere. Maybe we are lost. A lost generation in a dark world that doesn't know even where to begin. We need to seek something or better yet, someone. I was in chapel today and we sang the words, "Oh God let us be a generation that seeks. That seeks Your face." So God is what we are striving for. He is our fearless leader that shall lead us into the world and little by little through revolutionary acts of love we shall overcome. This is not a war or a battle. Our enemies our not the liberals, conservatives, gays, hippies, terrorists, abortionists, or evolutionists. Our enemies are the principalities and powers of this present darkenss.
It is time to come back. To come back to the center, where the heart of the darkness lies, and begin anew. Too much do we just coast through life on the outsides avoiding the middle by just running around it. We don't face are problems, we just evolve around it. We need to seek God because we all can't be the leaders of ourselves because we'll all mess up.
So let us be a generation that seeks God.
April 05, 2009
Jesus the Manly Man
I read today that we will never feel what Jesus felt. We can think about the whole crucifixion process but we will never feel the way he did.
I think that if the real Jesus was put into a super hero movie nobody would like him. He would be too human. He would show too much emotion and justice would never be served. I don't think he would fight the bad guys or capture the crooks.
If a modern day hero was put into a situation like Jesus was I don't think he would talk about his feelings to his followers and go into the woods just to pray about it. I don't think he would still actually go through with it. When the people came to get him he would've said, "let's do it," instead of doing what Jesus did. I think he would find the people who corrupted his trial and beat them up. He would serve justice to the courts and out smart the jury with his speeches and supports and in the end he would win the crowd back with some motivational speech. The crowd would go wild and they would carry him off into the sunset.
Jesus got so stressed it says He started to bleed. All He wanted was to be with his disciples. When they came to arrest him He stopped his disciple from fighting and went quietly. Throughout the trial He suffered through mockery and embarrassment. Still, Jesus said nothing. He got crucified and died for doing nothing wrong. He suffered through the most corrupt trial in history. He gave himself up willingly.
He knew what he was doing though. He turned the superhero, macho man, fighter stereotype upside-down. He didn't fight. He didn't speak (a lot). He didn't fight. He became the greatest man ever to roam the earth. He did what nobody else could do, or would do.
He changed everything.
He cried when people were watching and openly did not fight. He never gave into temptations or fell in love with an object. He was the perfect lamb and we slaughtered it.
Yet, through it all, the manly man died for you and for me. He was the perfect offering for our imperfect lives and that's all that would suffice. Through Him, I'm alive today and through Him, I hope to become a manly man.
I think that if the real Jesus was put into a super hero movie nobody would like him. He would be too human. He would show too much emotion and justice would never be served. I don't think he would fight the bad guys or capture the crooks.
If a modern day hero was put into a situation like Jesus was I don't think he would talk about his feelings to his followers and go into the woods just to pray about it. I don't think he would still actually go through with it. When the people came to get him he would've said, "let's do it," instead of doing what Jesus did. I think he would find the people who corrupted his trial and beat them up. He would serve justice to the courts and out smart the jury with his speeches and supports and in the end he would win the crowd back with some motivational speech. The crowd would go wild and they would carry him off into the sunset.
Jesus got so stressed it says He started to bleed. All He wanted was to be with his disciples. When they came to arrest him He stopped his disciple from fighting and went quietly. Throughout the trial He suffered through mockery and embarrassment. Still, Jesus said nothing. He got crucified and died for doing nothing wrong. He suffered through the most corrupt trial in history. He gave himself up willingly.
He knew what he was doing though. He turned the superhero, macho man, fighter stereotype upside-down. He didn't fight. He didn't speak (a lot). He didn't fight. He became the greatest man ever to roam the earth. He did what nobody else could do, or would do.
He changed everything.
He cried when people were watching and openly did not fight. He never gave into temptations or fell in love with an object. He was the perfect lamb and we slaughtered it.
Yet, through it all, the manly man died for you and for me. He was the perfect offering for our imperfect lives and that's all that would suffice. Through Him, I'm alive today and through Him, I hope to become a manly man.
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