times like these... make me happy to be a christian. well, i'm always happy to be a child of God. but.. after a sweet prayer meeting like tonight i feel far less obligation and far more pure desperation for more of God. te aroha baptist definitely has an anointing on it.
but flip... reading gets me going. like gas on a freaking mental fire. shane claiborne.. 'Jesus for president'... i've read a few books during DTS but this one has me going. its not even anything new! its a lot of re-writing from rob bell's 'Jesus wants to save christians' and i think a lot from 'irresistible revolution', shane claibornes first book. all it has done so far is summed up the bible till Jesus and how the israelites have struggled and overcome and struggled some more but how through the entire thing God has been leading them through change that always takes them out and away from the empire of that day. how revolutionary everything God told them to do was... i knew the levitical laws were important in that day an within the context of how God needed to get them straight with him, but i didn't realize they were set up to set the israelites apart from the rest of the world. from the empire that was egypt... the laws were there to distinguish the children of God (through which the son of man would come) from the rest of the conforming world. when they failed again and again and Jesus finally entered in to redeem all of mankind, his words were just as world rebelling and anti-empire society that they killed him.
i don't even know why i get so fired up, but i guess just recognizing what and who exactly i am living for gets me all jacked up and ready to face the world. i know we each have our own convictions placed in us by our designer, but they are all formed through the bedrock foundation that is the truth of God. i think i really enjoy knowing that i'm meant to be set apart just by following Christ. i can't wait to get to more parts of the book about todays empire... hooray for learning.
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