It has to be first about seeking the Kingdom. All the other things will be added. The point is, it’s HIM we so desperately, crazily, passionately pursue. It’s the fullness of the Kingdom that’s real, that’s desperately needed by the desperate, by the hungry. It’s His glory. His presence, his never-ending ever increasing presence.
I really don’t care about anything else. Athough I have a feeling that when He becomes our everything, everything else will be added. But even if it isn’t, if I get HIM in the exchange, I don’t care.
We have to get so ruined for anything else, we have to act as if we are as hungry as we are.
No price is too high, no distance too far, no shame too great to get more of God. If you’re hungry, you’ll go get food.“There is something glorious about having no options. I only have one option: to do what He said. “But what if we lose a bunch of people?” you may ask. Well they’re not ours to keep. Our esteem is not built upon the size of the local church, it’s built by doing what He said to do. All the other stuff doesn’t last.
Numbers have to be important first for them to impact you. They don’t impact you if they are not in the value system. When you say ‘God I want more of you at any cost’ you’ve already decided that numbers don’t matter if you get Him in the exchange.”
2 comments:
Yes and Amen! I'm so grateful that we emerged as a group from our Pastorate into LoveBristol. Collective faith and collective hunger is more than the sum of its parts, and we can 'carry' collectively more.
I have questions though - if the hungry are together, what of the rest? How do I reconcile my past (loyal & faithful leadership and church building) with my future (the church awakened to its idenity and purpose, imbued with the power of the ressurected Christ)?
Luckily God has answered me - just like John the Baptist Prepared the way , we prepare the way for our churches. We fight battles, win victories, suffer losses, get stronger - then the key point is what we do with the product of our 'burning'. Since you only get to give what you give away, we give it freely back to any one who's interested.
It's time to dream about what God could do with just a few burning ones. Tozer used to say "I'm looking for the fellowship of the burning heart . . . "
amen and amen.
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