This is not for everyone, but to those that it speaks to... To people still sitting on the outside - those without the understanding or the experience of true relationship with the God of heaven, much of what I've said in the past from this small, pitiful soap box must sound like utter foolishness and maybe even pure fantasy. For them I'm sorry... not for what I've said... but for them - for what they're missing. The beauty, the passion, the freedom and the majesty escapes them. I settled on a phrase a long time ago that relates to the difficulty that some of those people that I've mentioned above struggle with and among them you would sadly find some who call themselves Christian. That phrase goes like this: "A world that must see in order to believe will never experience what must first be believed in order to be seen." To have the humility and faith to take God at His word - to believe unshakably that what He's said is true, begins to open a door to...
A much loved spiritual mentor pointed out to me the difference between the Apostle Paul's past will (a life without Christ) and His new will that evolved after the Lord called Him. He then challenged me to define what my own new will would say... ...let my response be found here...
"It is not the title that people give to themselves that defines who they are; it is the fruit of what they produce." Graham Cooke