pardon me

I totally couldn't think of a clever title. I guess thats ok. It was bound to happen sooner or later. Some may argue the efficiency of my wit has departed a long time ago. Now whether or not that is true would of course be completely subjective. And there simply is no room for that here.

Anywho.

I don't really have anything to report today. Oh, other than Josh and I hit up Fike for a little fitness training, workout, stuff. Some girls challenged us to a 2x2 basketball game. We lost. But that is ok. We had fun.

Well tis all I have at the moment. I thought about not putting anything up. But I'm like, dude you created a blog and only have two blogs? But I'm done...

sorry to waste your time :-p

Lonnie
Romans 12:2

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Are We Really In Love?

The past few weeks God has really been working like double time in my life. Through various Bible studies, sermons, messages, podcasts, songs, Waffle House visits, and virtually anything else you can thing of, God has just been pounding this point over, and over, and over. And it is this question: Do you really love me? This seems like a simple enough question, with a simple enough answer. That answer being, "uh duh God, you rock. Of course I love you." But, really if you think about it, it is a question that requires so much more than that. I guess it has a lot to do with my English class this semester. Its all about rhetoric and argument forming. But, if you or I had to prepare an argument showing how we do indeed love Christ, and how that love is visible to Him, and the world around us, could we do that. Could I do that? I mean really think about that. So I start thinking about all these messages I've been getting through Bible study, and church, and BCM meetings, and there just seems to be a common thread in all of them recently. It has been talking about the church, and how it falls so short when it is examined through the lens of scripture.

I started to think and pray a lot, examine my life, my church, my friends, my like everything. And my heart was broken with just how pathetic of a case I have. Even more heartbreaking is that sometimes I try to cover it up by comparing it to others, but that is a whole different subject. God just kept revealing different things to me, a long and a long. Like how me and so many other believers still rely on others to help feed us. We aren't mature enough to look for answers, and when we do, we don't trust them enough to give them any weight. How stagnant the church is. Just so many things. Then as I was coming home Friday, I was listening to a message on my iPod and it just started talking about the church really, like really being in love with Christ. And as a whole, the church isn't. The American church just has become so complacent. I haven't found anywhere in the Bible where God says, "repent, be baptized, get comfortable, wait to die." Not even close. Christianity is so very radical. At its core it is a rebellious faith. Its one that goes against so many politically correct ideas, and one that requires not only for us to go outside our comfort zone, but for us to pretty much get rid of it. In order for one to receive the passion to do any of this, he has to be in love, madly in love with Christ. There is no way around it. If "passion" comes apart from a love deeply rooted in Christ, then it is all in vain. Not only is it impossible to get this passion w/o being in love, it is impossible to really be in love with Christ, and not have the passion. The two are connected, and cannot be separated.

Having said this. I don't see how it is possible to be a Christian and be comfortable. How you can honestly say you Jesus is lord of your life, and still be complacent. How can you have had gone to church like, any in your life, heard almost any sermon, and not had your heart torn apart because of the state of it? I've been losing sleep, going crazy, all because I know I've got to tighten up. I've realized that it is impossible for me to be in love with Christ and not have your heartbroken by looking at the world around you.

I guess what I'm getting at is this: If we can, in any aspect of our lives, be satisfied with where we are, then are we really in love with Christ?

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