I didn’t grow up in the church and I remember being 15 and completely living in the dark. Then here comes Brita and tells me about this great big God. I wanted nothing more then to follow him! It was as if I was a tiny alien and someone opened up the locker and Will Smith- God (haha… talk about heretic!) himself was standing there starring at me. I would have done anything and gone anywhere he told me to because he was just that cool. That big!

How soon we forget that new fervor. That new passion. We start to get all religious and forget about the great big God who showed us the light and asked us to follow him. I told God I’d follow him anywhere He asked me to go yet it’s taken me years to anywhere. Now why’s that?

Our God didn’t ask people to come sit in a church with him, put on a performance with him, etc… He walked the roads.. healing, teaching, feeding, helping and befriending. Isn’t it time we do the same?

Thanks again for sharing your thoughts! Always enjoy them.

Lace

For myself, before I got saved, I saw God from the point of view of a goth dude, so He was like the Force from Star Wars, except that I had a tendency to prefer the “Dark Side.” He was something or someone I could existentially control and use. Then, when I got saved, He became like Gandalf or Aslan, someone who saved the world and wanted to teach me how. Finally, one day I attended a conference with this pastor who imparted to me the “Father’s Heart,” and it changed something… Suddenly, I felt like I was in love with God, and I wanted to pursue Him, except that I didn’t feel comfortable with the idea of loving a “Him” and not a “her”. That is until I noticed something very curious. I could sense how others were feeling, as if their feelings were totally my own…and I knew those feelings weren’t mine…and I felt drawn to do something for them, because even if I didn’t know them, I just knew, I was IN LOVE with them. There was Something in me that I knew was definitely not mine, because loving someone I don’t even know was not me at all, at least not in the way I perceived myself. God was teaching me how to love Him, and in a very personal and tangible way.

Yet, when you’re in love, how do you really comprehend the one that you’re in love with?? I don’t think you can, at least not completely. You just know how to get to that place deep, deep down inside whenever you experience that amazing connection with that person. Then your heart opens and you go into cosmic displacement, and you start saying and doing the most wonderful things You feel like going through machine gun fire or walking on 500 miles of broken glass with bare feet or, at least, opening the door for that special object of your affection!! Isn’t that how we get to know someone we love…to share their heart…So to know God is, perhaps, to share His Heart even with the lowest of the low, because even the darkest, most evil creatures, were created with the capacity to love.