Sunday, April 5, 2009

TIME TO TALK AGAIN

So its been a while I know - almost 2 months actually - has been a big 2 months! We've had a number of big events in the last 2 months - 3 album recordings, an amazing conference, this weekend we hit Easter - my favourite time to reflect on God & His Love - whilst the team including myself work on bringing this same message to as many people as we can over our weekend services & ART FROM THE HEART film & art festival. So all that to say when i was at home I was working on being at home!

I also think I didn't blog cos I've felt like i haven't had much to say ..... NOW FOR EVERYONE WHO KNOWS ME & HAS FALLEN OFF THEIR CHAIR AT THAT STATEMENT ... U CAN GET OFF THE FLOOR & BACK ON YOUR CHAIR :)

It's so easy to talk & talk & talk ... & talk some more - & not actually say anything that's really worth saying!I find this with my wife & challenges she faces. I can talk to her about what she could do, stuff that could help overcome the obstacle, stuff that would 'save' her potential pain & its all good stuff - but maybe not worth saying, cos it doesn't help her it only brings hindrance she doesn't need.

God's Word is His seed - life came into being by His word - & if all life comes through a seed then I think its OK to say His Word is His seed. But seed can't just be planted at any old time. For the seed to reap 100 fold the planter in His wisdom & experience knows when to & when not to plant it. Just because He has the seed doesn't mean the seed will produce. God takes pretty seriously what we do with our seed - in the old testament he was pretty full on with a guy who decided to 'spill his seed' - as in not do with it what was designed. & Jesus cursed a tree whose seed had not fully produced.

So if, like Jesus, my words create my world then my words better be weighty - what I mean weighty is NOT a 'Christianize' language or spiritual veneer or religious language or Church-Culture language - I'm finding more & more that when i TRY to be religious, TRY to be a Christian, TRY to be the answer to someone's problem, TRY to rescue someone - it does not carry God's weight, God's answers - it falls over, sometimes with pretty big consequences.

But when I just be normal - as in WAIT with the "deep things" or "my latest revelation" (or wanting to validate my own esteem by elevating myself in public)- till there is actually something weighty & timely to say - when i just be normal as in wisdom's normal, when i speak common sense - when I don't try to be someone's saviour or someones answer or someones prophet but just be - in close relationship with Jesus, following after Him - loving people, treating them with value & respect, engaging in the present with an eye for God in the future then my words have weight, they have power well beyond what i could manufacture, they are filled with the creative power of God to bring comfort, courage & compassion

If this week ur looking 4 an explanation, an answer, something to say to make sense of a situation or circumstance that just doesn't make sense - well maybe we can together - WAIT PATIENTLY, HOPE EXPECTANTLY & place our TRUST in the only one who is able to be always Trusted - He is the one we celebrate this Easter Time

TILL NEXT .... WELL NOT SURE ... MAYBE MONDAY - if that's when I have something to say!