I dream of a world.

I am dreaming of a world. A world where darkness doesn't exist. A world where pain and suffering are no more. A world of new beginnings, and happiness. A life eternal, full of enjoyment of God, and one another, where the days go on forever, and the sun never goes down. Where anger, guilt, greed, divorce, adultery, aren't even in people's vocabulary. Where the beauty of the sea, and the colors of the nations are alive. Can you picture it? Sometimes, I can. 

This week we have been studying Revelation, and I got a glimpse of what God has been trying to tell the world since the very first time that he spoke to Abraham. Today, as I was trying to make sense of my role as a Christian i was just struck by the absolute truth that God is ruler, and that we are to worship him for who he is, and what he has dreamed for us. A dream that we could never dream without him. In the mean time, our goal should be brokenness over the people of the earth that don't know the truth about who God is. Our lives, as best we can(which isn't even close to perfect) would be to live as if we believe our God is coming back, and he loves the world so much. What that looks like, only each person's true talents, and mind's can reflect the reflection of what God had in mind of putting you on the planet. So i dare each one of us, including myself- do we look into his face, see his love, shrug off the ambitions of self, and be captured forever? 

These few months of SBS has showed me really how much I took my life for granted. I have learned about God his amazing love, and patience that he allowed his creation to spit in his face, literally(Matthew 26:67), that in itself has blown me away. The patience of God is incredible. Father, forgive them for they know not what they do brings a whole new meaning. God has begun to bring me to a place where I can no longer see why I should have my way.  That he came for us, the biggest losers(in the truest sense of the word) lived out life, as a winner, a winner over selfish desires, and was a pure, and living example of what a life for God could look like, if we will only say, Father, have your will. 

I pray that everyone who reads this questions their intentions in life, and questions who they are living for. Themselves, or God. Whether you be a believer, or not in Jesus. 

Jason