October 12, 2006
~Real Quote~
Faith is the heroic effort of your life, you fling yourself in reckless confidence on God. God has ventured all in Jesus Christ to save us, now He wants us to venture our all in abandoned confidence in Him. –Oswald Chambers
Shameless audacity.
Reckless confidence.
These words are normally words we don’t attribute to Christianity. Aren’t we supposed to honor God? Isn’t he the supreme being of the universe? How can words like “reckless” be a good thing in faith?
Except in this case it means trusting in something bigger than yourself. How many times did God ask ordinary people to do what seemed “reckless”? They left familiar worlds and people and did extraordinary things that some might not comprehend, or thing they were qualified to do. . .
Today I received a post from a 16-year-old girl on my MySpace. I want to be a speaker, it said. I want to dance and worship with all my heart and some people may not get it, but I just want to abandon everything and worship him with all that I am. I want to speak about God and share my faith.
Where do I begin?
With reckless abandonment. Trust that God is with you. There will be practical things — like connecting with others who have this gift; learning it from the outside in; praying; preparing.
But the reckless abandonment will be throwing open her life and heart to the possibilities that God can do through and in her life.
What about you?
~ Real Article ~
Want to read more about faith? Read this article: Believing the Unbelievable.
Excerpt:
Campus Life, June/July, 2006
Believing the Unbelievable
How do we make sense of an outrageous idea found in our faith?
by Jerry and Grady Root
The Tooth Fairy grabs a tooth out from under a pillow and then leaves a buck in its place. A big, bearded jolly guy parks his flying deer on roofs, squeezes himself through chimneys and leaves gifts under Christmas trees. A rabbit hops around the neighborhood (always unnoticed) and gives out candy-filled baskets. Admit it. You once believed all that. It’s OK, we all did. Then somebody wise to the ways of the world—maybe a big, grown-up 8-year-old cousin—tips us off:
“It’s not true! Nobody believes that kid stuff anymore!”
Then we stopped believing in fairy tales. We were no longer that gullible. We no longer believed the unbelievable. We were wise to the ways of the world. We wouldn’t be fooled again.
Read rest of article.
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