Switchfoot - Dare You To Move

"Welcome to the fallout, Welcome to resistance, The tension is here, The tension is here, Between who you are and who you could be, Between how it is and how it should be"

Anybody else feeling this tension? Sometimes I feel it so strong I think it's going to rip me to pieces!

Isn't this "tension" God awakening our hearts? That sense within us all that says, "This world is not what it's meant to be...I'm not what I'm meant to be" That's Jesus knocking on the door of our heart. Christ came preaching, teaching and showing us a NEW way. He spoke of restoration and of what His coming Kingdom is like. I pray this tension "Dares us to move" toward Jesus and His coming Kingdom. It's in Him and His Kingdom that we all find the answers that drive us in our quest for genuine life.

Good News?

"What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad... Do you know what I'm talking about?"

The Matrix

I think the gospel is good news to those that explore the ideas that there's "something wrong with the world" and "this can't be the way it was meant to be."

I believe the most frightening thing of all is when we DON'T feel that gnawing sense that things are not what they are supposed to be or when we see it, but say to ourselves, "Maybe this is just the way it is" and we slowly go numb in our addictions and succumb to resignation.

I think salvation begins when we start to understand what Jesus meant when He said, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven". When we recognize our own poverty of spirit, our own nothingness, it can be "like a splinter in our mind driving us mad" , but when that drives us to seek out answers it can be the dawning of a new day. The gospel has nothing to say to those who are content with themselves and the way things are. But to those that mourn (Blessed are they that mourn for they will be comforted) because of the state they find themselves in, the gospel becomes the "pearl of great price" the "treasure in the field" the thing that they will give up all to have. No price is too high to obtain this good news. So, first the gospel seems to cut down before it builds up. Otherwise, we wouldn't see it for the priceless treasure that it really is.

Pure Gospel...

"Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it." Luke 17:33