Two Years In

Two years ago today, Jesus Christ walked into my reality and brought me to life...

Here's what I have discovered since that moment.

We are in an age like no other, and big things are both here and coming.

There is so much more to a relationship with God than just believing in Him.

We are meant to be animated by Him, not settled into our own lives and comforts. He desires to rearrange all that... Faith moves.

He is inexhaustible.

There is no level of pursuit that will enable us to find His beginning or end. His depths are unreachable and He invites us into unlimited discovery.

The Kingdom of God is truly in our midst.

There is an unseen adventure we can learn to participate in. Participation allows us to see the hand of God moving in our lives, and allows Him to weave us into the lives of others to spiritually impact those He has positioned before us.

Some are welcoming, some are scared and some are offended.

It is what it is....a spiritual numbers game.

The more we learn to sit with Him, read His Word and ask Him to use us for His Kingdom, the more He reveals to us the magnificence of what we are actually participating in and the more we desire to participate.

When you read the Holy Bible, it will begin reading you back.

The things of earth will grow strangely dim.

There is truly a reason that the Bible says, "Taste and see that He is good." Experiencing His goodness begins a chain reaction of goodness.

A true relationship with a very real, lovingly jealous, merciful, tender, cosmic and mighty Father begins with His eternal Son. It is only through a relationship with Jesus that we can become more than God's creation, and only through union with Christ that we move into relationship as children of God.

I know people can experience God in profound ways without truly knowing Him.

And I tried to find loopholes...

But there are none, because every road is meant to lead back to the same place...the Father is drawing us into relationship with Himself, and that relationship comes through His Eternal Son, who stepped into time to rescue us, bring us home to the Father, and carry us from this incredible story into the one that never ends.

The West has made Christianity boring. It is a mundane process of dry prayer, blessing the food, Sunday church and forced activity.

But it doesn't have to be, and it shouldn't be.

Relationship with Him is anything but boring.

The Heavens are alive and teeming with life.

The soul is meant to be searched, exposed, healed and transformed by the Holy Spirit.

The excitement and majesty come as the Spirit of God moves within us, revealing what is hidden, bringing us into truth, and conforming us more and more into the image of Christ...and through the submission of our own lives to a new ruler, a new King...Jesus.

I have found most don't like bowing to someone other than themselves. But it is only in that submission that our lives are dramatically altered.

Once we discover that there is a real life to be had spiritually, and once we are in a real relationship with the One True God, then walking into a church building, or a grocery store, or the post office, or our own homes simply become a part of the greater journey....these places are no longer the burden, they are the training grounds, the vineyards, the harvest and the delights of our life.

There is a war at hand and many Christians are sound asleep.

I am beyond grateful for the new family I have in Christ.

The best is yet to come....and the not so pretty parts too.

Buckle up, buttercup.

Gibbo