1 is better than 99..

Yesterday, I heard a story.
Someone in my department at work recently went to visit the small population of spanish Jews living in Israel. While he was there the local church had an evangelistic event. There were 150 people in attendance, small by our American standards.

5 souls were saved.
That was the equivalent of 5,000 people here....

It reminded me again of how we tend to
count success in numbers. We measure relatively and compete like we're in it for the money.

I was reminded that Jesus said, "there is more joy in heaven over one lost sinner who repents and returns to God than over ninety-nine others who are righteous and haven’t strayed away!"
and
"...there is joy in the presence of God’s angels when even one sinner repents"

When we're often overwhelmed and all about quantity, Jesus is all about quality.
Let us not forget the power of one.
For if we "successfully" herd the masses through, and neglect truly teaching even one heart
what will we have to show, for our efforts in the end will be failure.
God sees souls not numbers
He sees children that he calls precious - rare and of great value.

time for a new layout!

New layout and header!!
Yay!
Forever I've wanted to personalize this blog and I didn't know how or WHAT!
But, I'm so proud of myself today, I made my own headers!!
I like :)

Love

Jesus, I want to Love like a child with the depth of an ancient.
I want to live. I need your Love so I won't fear, so I can love the hard-hearted, fully myself... with You.
I don't want to DO for the sake of DOING. I want to DO for the sake of LOVING.
I long for Love.
I long to be known.
The only time the world really stopped was when I looked into your eyes.
I saw you in the middle of the dark.
Your eyes burn with light. Your Love is so bright, there's no mistaking it, I think we're the ones who confuse it.
You burn through the night, your mercy always breaks through, tears dry in your sunlight. Your coming on the wings of the dawn and last night I saw you... every word disintegrated.
You're so big I can't grasp it. Yet, You're so near I can't comprehend it.
To never lose the wonder, to use this pain for victory.
To appropriate the power of Your cross for all it's worth.
You're precious.

in the moment

So, this is me.
I HATE not knowing and that's just the place I almost always seem to be of lately.
God, what are you doing?
Is it just me, am I that deaf and dumb?
I just wanna be free.

We're are........

I recently heard it said: "Jesus wasn't raised up on the cross to give us a career." and it keeps going over and over in my head....

Don't we have better things to do than to argue?
I want so much to stand up and scream, but so many times the hammer seems to slip and fall on the wrong side... so, I sit and say nothing... I hate being misunderstood, so alone.
We're not meant to speak, we're supposed to live.
Jesus isin't a brand or a nametag, His cross is not cool or fashionable. It's radical, it's for every age every time every people group.
We're so twisted, so confused...
and if we really lived for Love, it wouldn't look like this.
Cause we focus on all the wrong things. We're so blind! Father, can you still lead us?!
Don't we have anything better to do than talk idle words out? Oh! they're spewing and falling and tripping our brothers.
I thought soldiers never give up.

It's so hard to be the only one. It's so much easier to swim with the flow.

Oh, to those who'll remain unnamed,
I've heard you say it again and again and that vision is so nice, but that's not what I'm seeing, friend.
Your words paint a beautiful picture, but I don't see those same colors on display.
We've become a place of false advertising, we're not meant to play these games.

I imagine God, does your heart not weep to see your church so crippled, so helpless, when we've got all the Power we need... You must see some good in us yet.
You're the one who loves Justice.
You're the One who reigns in Mercy.
You hate sin BUT love unconditionally.

And, I wanna be like you and I want things to change. And even tho it seems they never will, I never want to stop believing.
I don't wanna hate your bride, Oh God, make us pure for you again.