*I don't think you can explain how Christian faith works either. It is a mystery. And I love this about Christian spirituality. It cannot be explained, and yet it is beautiful and true. It is something you feel, and it comes from the soul.
*I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the things we need.
*Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.
*What people believe is important. What people believe is more important than how they look, what their skills are, or their degree of passion. Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn't going to lead anybody anywhere.
*Andrew would say that dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something extends beyond fashion, glory, or recognition. We live for what we believe, Andrew would say.
*If loving other people is a bit of heaven then certainly isolation is a bit of hell, and to that degree, here on earth, we decide in which state we would like to live.
A Time to Begin
Each of us has a message to share, a collaboration of random thoughts, a collection of epiphanies, a portrait of our soul. The artisit within me yearns to translate the beauty and wisdom I see around me into creative expression...At times maybe I'll feel inspired to use this method as just another way to express certain ideas that have churned in my mind...but I'd also love to share insights that have been imparted to me from some other source. If you feel so inclined, I would welcome you to share in my pondering. And per chance, if it should speak to your heart in any way, then it has served a noble purpose beyond my greatest hopes.
The Reason for HOPE
Some time ago, I felt such a magnetism to this concept of hope. It so impressed upon me that I wanted to write about it and solidify these thoughts. They served as a cornerstone to stand on, a catalyst for forward motion. I truly felt that God placed a selection of verses into my mind and heart, revolving around hope, that I couldn't keep within me. They have been used in a powerful way in my life, yet my understanding about them was not complete. For example in Romans 5, Paul professes ..."and hope does not disappoint us..." yet when I considered what the popular view of hope looks like, this verse could be such a contradiction. Surely, according to the world's view, hope is a grasp at some wish that we desire to become true yet have no reassurance of coming into fulfillment. An amazing thing was made clear to me after a discussion I had with members of my small group. The hope we have as Christians is not an uncertainty but a conviction of those things that God has already promised us. His promises are given to us as a deposit in our hearts. This is the beauty of the Hope we have in Christ. We do not have to grieve like the hopeless and brokenhearted, because we know with absolute certainty that we have direct contact with the creator of the universe, who promises to be actively engaged in our lives, to never leave us or forsake us, and to finally experience eternity with him. Speaking plainly, I hate to be disappointed. And though it is inevitable in a striving humanity, the hope of Jesus is counter-cultural. It will never disappoint.
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belief without passion though is like a car with wheels and no fuel, it has all the potential energy in the world, but passion i think is what pushes it into kinetic energy
the last paragraph reminds me of Sex God by Rob Bell
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