TOO TRUE.

"The culture of Christians never change anything, but radical disciples of Jesus do. Christian culture makes clothes, but Jesus makes disciples"- BF

An Excerpt from I Will Wait for You- Janette Ikz

"I will no longer date, socialize or communicate with carbon copies of you
To appease my boredom or to quench my thirstiness I have for attention
And short-lived compliments from ‘sorta kindas’.
You know….
He ‘sort kinda’ right, but ‘sorta kinda’ wrong?
His first name LUKE,
His last name WARM.
I, I won’t settle for false companionship
I won’t lay in the embrace of his arms,
Attempting to find some closeness,
But never feeling so far apart cause, I just wanna be held
Cause ”all I gotta do is Say” No!
No more ‘almost sessions’ of ‘almost coming close’
Passing winks & buying drinks,
I’ma, I’ma, I’ma flirt!
Who flirts with the ideology of,
‘Can you just tell me how much I can get away with & still be saved?’
NO more.
I’ll stay in my bed alone, and write poems, about how I will wait for you.
He won’t even come close,
Our fingers won’t even interlock
We won’t even exchange breath
Cause I have thoughts that I’ve ‘saved as’ in a file that God has only equipped you to open.

I will no longer get weighted down,
From so-called friends & family talks,
About the concern for my biological clock
When I serve the Author of Time.
Who is NOT subject to time,
But I’M subject to Him,
He has the ability to STOP, FAST FORWARD, PAUSE, or REWIND at any given time…

So if we could role play,
You would be Abraham & I would be Sara
Or you can be Isaac & I can be Rebecca – a servant’s answered prayer
I am bone of your bone, flesh of your flesh,
Made up of your rib Adam!
And once we meet, like electrons
I will be bound to your nucleus, completely indivisible atom.
We even speak the same math: 1 + 1 + 1 = 3, which really equals 1 if you add Him.
We were all created in His image,
But you have the ability to reflect, project & even detect the Son.
If I were to explain what you looked like,
You would have to look like a star,
A son of the Son..
I would gain energy simply from the light on me.
I would need you , in order to complete my photosynthesis
I await your revelation, but once again from the genesis, I will wait for you.

And I will know you… because when you speak I will be reminded of Solomon’s wisdom,
Your ability to lead will remind me of Moses,
Your faith will remind me of Abraham,
Your confidence in God’s Word will remind me of Daniel,
Your inspiration will remind me of Paul,
Your heart for God will remind me of David,
Your attention to detail will remind me of Noah,
Your integrity will remind me of Joseph,
And your ability to abandon your own will, will remind me of the disciples,
But your ability to love selflessly & unconditionally will remind me of Christ.
But I won’t need to identify you by any special Matthews or any special Marks,
Cause His word will be tatted all over your heart.

And you will know me, and you will find me,
Where… the boldness of Esther meets the warm closeness of Ruth.
Where the hospitality of Lydia is aligned with the submission of Mary,
Which is engulfed in the tears of a praying Hanna.
I will be the one, drenched in Proverbs 31… waiting for you"




Amen.

Overflowing Passion.

I remember when I was in high school I really was inspired by the Hillsong worship team. They looked so passionate during their worship, there was always this glow about them. They always read Scripture and it had so much power and Holy Spirit BAMNESS to it. And so, out of my admiration for them...I recall me trying to copy what they did in the videos when I had opportunities to lead worship at church. I tried formulating what to say and muster up this passion many times...but there were many instances where it just felt really awkward.I also tried to imitate them by raising up my hands, because I felt it made you so much more godlier and everyone else was doing it in the Hillsong video.

Now I know the reason that it felt so awkward imitating them...was that it was something that cannot be imitated. This is because the love that flows out of their hearts during worship is SO real. When people lifted up their hands in worship...it was because Christ is SO Holy and AMAZING...they cannot HELP but to RAISE THEIR HANDS TO WORSHIP!The passages they are speaking about, the zeal they are worshipping with...is not from themeselves...it's truly from the divine conviction, power, and prompting of the Holy Spirit. It something that when one truly encounters the love of God...they cannot contain. It kind of overtakes your body to the point you feel like OMGOSH what was that..was that me? that felt awesomely weird. Well newsflash it really isn't you..it is Christ in you...it is the best feeling EVER!

yay.

Humbled.

Tonight the Advancement chapel was really humbling.
It was a missions team send off night, and the love of God was just so thick in the room.
I realized something tonight, that isn't really new..but it just dawned on me.
I'm just one little minuscule individual in His big picture.
Sometimes it so easy for us to think we are so hardcore in pursuing Jesus, and that we are probably one of the few that "get" it..but in reality that's so dumb.
The Lord has been working and is working in so many people's hearts and has stirred up in them a deep desire for missions and intimacy with Him.
He has His timing with everyone, and He is just teaching one of us individually and corporately about HIM.
Man I have so much to learn...but I'm so stoked to learn it.

I'm just so blessed...man.

You know those countless fb statuses that I post about how great my school is and how great my friends are? Maybe people wonder why. It all comes down to this really...it really isn't the school or the people...but it's the JESUS in both the school and the people that makes it so attractive..so amazing...so beautiful.

May the Lord continue to work on Biola's campus so that there will be complete exaltation of His name in this place...may the religious spirit be broken on this campus...and may true intimacy/relationship with Him be established in this place!

In His name,
Amen.

"It was the greatest act of injustice, but also the greatest act of LOVE"

This video made me melt.