I had the incredible opportunity to speak at Crave (college and young adult worship service) last night. Crave is easily one of my favorite programs at the church. Goesles Parade was here to lead worship and absolutely brought us into the presence of God. I was so excited to walk through a passage that has meant so much to me in the last two years of my walk with Christ, Isaiah 6: 1-8. It is an incredible story of how the life of Isaiah begins to move from normal to incredible. I am not going to lie, i want my life to fall under the incredible category and i think you should feel the same thing about yours. We unpacked two truths from that passage:
1 - God wants our attention - Isaiah had an incredible calling and was going to go on to do and say some very powerful things but it was never about him, it was always about Jesus. We need to not be focused on our questions in life, but rather be focused on Jesus. Jesus didn't say he would show you the way, He said He was the way (John 14:6).
2 - God wants us to see Him accurately. Christian t-shirts and clever little bumper stickers don't give a lost world a good idea of who God is. God is not corny and unoriginal to the point he has to take a "Reeses" logo and change it to say "Jesus". We need to be getting a view of God from His Word. Not the world, not tv, not even our own feelings. I am nervous about our generation so being concerned with feelings and emotions, get over your feelings and hear from God first and then look at your feelings.
We should desire to see God do great things in us, He spent so much for us and has incredible plans for us but we need to get to the point where we are focused on him and not our future.
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