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Lead prayer this morning..
Hey guys. So jared asked me to lead this prayer.. so here I am. First I wanted to ask, How have you guys been doing with loving others? Okay that’s cool. I wanted to throw a different spin on this whole view of loving others. So, obviously there are people in our lives we love and care for, and then there are people that are a lot harder to love than others. I want to talk about those people we love, and it’s easy to love them.
First… what would we do for those we love? I know for the people closest to me… I would do basically anything. Travel hours if only to see them for a moment.. or spend a small fortune to bring a smile to their face and show them we care about them, and those people.. that if you haven’t talked to them, your day does not feel complete, like its hard to sleep even. Those are the kinds of people that we love and care about and its easy to love and care about them. But.. We need to be careful with this. How does this compare to our relationship with God?
The God you can talk to whenever you want, the one that is with you always, and always listens, and the one that loves you more than any person on earth can come close to. The PERFECT God. If we can love imperfect beings on this earth, and do as much as we do for them gladly, shouldn’t our love for a PERFECT God be so much stronger? And willing to do more for Him? It seems as so, but in most cases it’s harder to do that kind of thing. We take God for granted. God is always there.. and I totally take that for granted. The fact that I can talk to Him all day, every day, any time, anywhere.. I’m very guilty of taking God for granted. My main point here is.. Are we in love with God? Would we go above and beyond our little bubbles to show our love to God? He asks us to drop everything and follow Him. Do we do that? Are we on FIRE for God? Or are we only lukewarm. A while back, I took this, and I challenged it. I ran from school to the church.. the 7 miles it is.. to see what God would do with that. I put in some hillsong and made a fool out of myself running down the road.. but God totally used that. An hour and a half of pure worship was a feeling I wouldn’t trade for the world.. AND.. as I was running, I talked to two skateboarders about God.. it’s amazing how God can use us if we just put ourselves in places where He can use us. Dropping everything and following Him. In order to be on fire for God.. and be in LOVE with Him. We have to do that. So I want to play a song.. it’s called arms open wide, by Hillsong. While I was running this song came on.. and I just burst into tears while running down the road. Made a complete fool of myself, but again, wouldn’t trade it for the world.
