Electricity

There comes the clouds, then the flash and the crack of sound the jolts your core, left in wonder and shock, the toxic combination arises in you, how close was that and I hope it doesn't hit me, yet, all the while you crave to see it again! As intoxicating as the moment is caught in the beauty of power and disturbed by the power that can kill we always sit, in awe and wonder. It’s the uncontrollable, the un-manageable, maybe not wild but certainly “bigger than who I am”, that we are in awe of. There is and has always been and surely always be a super natural engagement with things only God can do or control. There’s the intoxicating tension, can God do, and will he?

PERSPECTIVE
We operate under conviction that God can do the extraordinary, until it comes into our world. Crisis invades our situation and we believe for other situations but when it comes to our specific context we hesitate, stutter in our response, our faith is the issue in crisis. So how do we respond? In obedience and say God you can do it. In faith saying God you can. In love saying God I trust you. In hope saying honestly God, only you can.

That is the truth of perspective, from where we sit and see life only God can, only He can do the intoxicating wonders bigger than our life and our need. That is really a God, a God that can, and will. He wills to do the powerful the earth moving because He is by nature good, He is so good.

What have we become?

Right now there is genocide in Darfur, a ten-year-old child has just been abducted as a soldier or a prostitute in South East Asia. In Africa genocide of a different sort is happening, as many die each minute from AIDS. These issues though are out of sight out of mind. Yet children go to sleep hungry in the U.S. everyday. Even more tragic is this, Brittany Spears and Anna Nicole Smith have been the headlines while the true tragedy was going on... go figure! Yet before we get too upset at the media for not alerting us to this injustice, it's their job to make money by telling us what they want us to hear, think about this...

The greatest tragedy is this, while all those horrible things were going on, the very heart of God was breaking. Breaking for those that are victims of all this global injustice and of course all those in need going hungry here. There must be a deeper under current though, heartache that only a father can experience when his sons do not care about each other. As this father has left all the resources to his children to resolve all the need from war, and starvation to depression and loneliness his heart must be breaking. We have been given all things and some of the solution lies with us and within us.

The solution lies with us as we see the things we have as tools in the hands of a visionary, powerful, and compassionate God. Do you think that God has the vision to see that the things you have can be used for more than your pleasure but to for the very change of soul in another.

The solution within us is to lean on the very father that deposited His spirit within us to speak and guide us in all the "moments" we face in the day to day, or the overwhelmingly important. This whisper that guides our heart is what we need to resonate with the heart of the AIDS victim or the child prostitute and make a compassionate response with action or prayer.

So take the moment to respond, listen, and move with the whisper of His Spirit.