By Stephanie Josiah on Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 5:54pm
Friday night we watched The Book of Eli and last night we watched Luther (Movie about Martin Luther)
I couldn't fall asleep right after we watched Luther.
We prayed and then Ishmael fell asleep.
I kept tossing around and thinking about stuff and trying to analyze each thought that was just streaming into my brain, so I wrote it all down. I find that if I write it, I can sleep immediately afterwards.
Disclaimer: I believe the following to be words that God put on my heart and mind. I also believe that God says that if the following shoe does not fit... don't wear it :0) But I'm sure that all of us have at least some areas where we could improve.
What I wrote down early this morning:
~ Spiritually UNfit ~
We Christians of the western world
have become too pudgy around the midsection
not just physically
but too spiritually unfit to be believed
when we claim God as our king.
Knights going into battle require training
eating healthy - not over-indulging
in nutritional and moral excess.
We become too gross for our God
God is in shape
while we claim to be His followers,
His servants, victorious in Him -
we are overflowing not in the Holy Spirit
so much as we are up to our ears in waste.
We've outgrown our britches -
we've crammed down junk
a fast food nation of fast food Christians
searching for a summarized version of God Himself
in no greater than a one-hour-time-crunch slot!
We want God and we want Him now -
artificial flavoring included
and additives like material gain
sexual bliss, a bigger crown in this life than in
Heaven!
We feed on promises
snack foods called:
safety, freedom, comfort, wealth, and worst of all
our own ideas of righteousness
we wear righteousness as a title
but our books lack substance
the pages are blank
Jesus Christ was the only truly righteous man
and we believe that we deserve fates better
than His.
To be His true followers but have it easier than Him
To be loved by all
where He was hated by most
to be able to pass between God's will and
our own
when Christ remained only in God's will!
We believe that in all our consumerism-natured
living, we can buy our salvation
with false humility, false apology, and even more disgusting
false obedience
we feed on junk food and we
are what we eat
do we even know what we eat?
That hour long sermon is no substitute for
A life LIVED IN Christ!
A life spent in, DRENCHED IN God's Holy Word!
We want the quick meal
but I tell you this...
It is not a spoonful compared to the nutrition
that is in God's WORD.
Consume that! Buy into that!
Know what the pastor is saying before he even speaks!
That Sunday sermon is directed toward pre-Christians
that hour-long worship is an opportunity for the pre-Christian
to see a bit of what we should be doing the whole week!
We think we can live an eternal life based on an hour's worth of learning
per week! Funny and sad. No, mostly just sad!
We are supposed to be the proof that there is more
to this life than
just another fast food religion and half-hearted experience
toward a tombstone!
We cannot win people to Christ from our couches!
If we knew the Word of God and lived it....
ah, the rocks would never dare cry out in our place!
If we were truly God's army - we would look like soldiers
from the inside out - instead of being physically and spiritually
overloaded with junk.
If God sends in His best to fight - His best to go up against the opponent,
Western World Christians, we should consider ourselves benched.
Sincerely,
Stephanie Josiah
Written: February 7th, 2010 1:00AM
I couldn't fall asleep right after we watched Luther.
We prayed and then Ishmael fell asleep.
I kept tossing around and thinking about stuff and trying to analyze each thought that was just streaming into my brain, so I wrote it all down. I find that if I write it, I can sleep immediately afterwards.
Disclaimer: I believe the following to be words that God put on my heart and mind. I also believe that God says that if the following shoe does not fit... don't wear it :0) But I'm sure that all of us have at least some areas where we could improve.
What I wrote down early this morning:
~ Spiritually UNfit ~
We Christians of the western world
have become too pudgy around the midsection
not just physically
but too spiritually unfit to be believed
when we claim God as our king.
Knights going into battle require training
eating healthy - not over-indulging
in nutritional and moral excess.
We become too gross for our God
God is in shape
while we claim to be His followers,
His servants, victorious in Him -
we are overflowing not in the Holy Spirit
so much as we are up to our ears in waste.
We've outgrown our britches -
we've crammed down junk
a fast food nation of fast food Christians
searching for a summarized version of God Himself
in no greater than a one-hour-time-crunch slot!
We want God and we want Him now -
artificial flavoring included
and additives like material gain
sexual bliss, a bigger crown in this life than in
Heaven!
We feed on promises
snack foods called:
safety, freedom, comfort, wealth, and worst of all
our own ideas of righteousness
we wear righteousness as a title
but our books lack substance
the pages are blank
Jesus Christ was the only truly righteous man
and we believe that we deserve fates better
than His.
To be His true followers but have it easier than Him
To be loved by all
where He was hated by most
to be able to pass between God's will and
our own
when Christ remained only in God's will!
We believe that in all our consumerism-natured
living, we can buy our salvation
with false humility, false apology, and even more disgusting
false obedience
we feed on junk food and we
are what we eat
do we even know what we eat?
That hour long sermon is no substitute for
A life LIVED IN Christ!
A life spent in, DRENCHED IN God's Holy Word!
We want the quick meal
but I tell you this...
It is not a spoonful compared to the nutrition
that is in God's WORD.
Consume that! Buy into that!
Know what the pastor is saying before he even speaks!
That Sunday sermon is directed toward pre-Christians
that hour-long worship is an opportunity for the pre-Christian
to see a bit of what we should be doing the whole week!
We think we can live an eternal life based on an hour's worth of learning
per week! Funny and sad. No, mostly just sad!
We are supposed to be the proof that there is more
to this life than
just another fast food religion and half-hearted experience
toward a tombstone!
We cannot win people to Christ from our couches!
If we knew the Word of God and lived it....
ah, the rocks would never dare cry out in our place!
If we were truly God's army - we would look like soldiers
from the inside out - instead of being physically and spiritually
overloaded with junk.
If God sends in His best to fight - His best to go up against the opponent,
Western World Christians, we should consider ourselves benched.
Sincerely,
Stephanie Josiah
Written: February 7th, 2010 1:00AM
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