Dance a jig...

Read Matthew 7.7-23

When we choose to swim in the river of self we will quickly find ourselves drowning in the waters of self-deceit. Our hearts need to fill up on the music of love…we need to dance a jig with Jesus.

If we want this world to shine with the light of Christ, then we must not dance with the devil because one dance will lead us into the abyss of darkness. Our hearts need to reach out and accept the hand of our Savior. We need to step into His light so that we might dance a jig with Jesus. And how do we do this? Prayer…

Everyday our hearts, our minds, our souls need to be overwhelmed with the sweet perfume of prayer. Everyday the essence of who we are needs to be saturated with the truth of who He is. Everyday Jesus needs to become our breath so that through the Holy Spirit we might breathe in His righteous love.

In prayer the traitor in me meets the insane love in Him. In prayer the rebellion of my heart meets with the compassion of His heart. In prayer He welcomes me home so as to cover me with the truth of His way and the light of His life. In prayer the Spirit takes me into Christ so that I might enter into His dance of forever love…

What is stopping you this day from dancing a jig with Jesus?

Like a parched land

Read Psalm 143

When people celebrate love I always wonder what it is rooted in? In other words, is their love rooted in worldly things like gifts, feelings, physicality, etc… Or is it rooted in the One who is love?

That is, are our hearts a parched land thirsting after the One who is love?

I meditate on all that you have done; I ponder the work of your hands. I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land (vs5-6). 

Love is tough, it doesn't make sense, it is insane, and yet if you know love you know that it is worth dying for…it is worth fighting for...

Problem comes when what we thirst for is temporal when right there before us, the eternal is crying out for our hearts. The only way to know love is for our heart to become a parched land…and this happens through our prayers. We must seek the Spirit so as to find righteousness and the steadfast love of Christ.

What does it mean to thirst so heavily for Jesus that your soul thirsts like a parched land?

My beautiful daughter wrote this:

Thirsting for Jesus…It’s like saying “All I want is to live Christ.” Can I really live up to this? Does anyone else struggle with this? And does living for Christ mean no fun, no love, no true joy? This is what Satan wants us to think.

Thirsting for Jesus is living out the Christmas miracle intentionally and intensely. It means to live out the newness of life every day—to go against the world and its lure of comfort and pleasure, to be the joy of Christ every day. It doesn't make sense and this is why we call the love of Jesus insanity because to be covered in His love is to be covered in insane love. It is a love that makes you do crazy things like loving the unloved, giving to the homeless, liking those who everyone makes fun of, it means being the Good Samaritan not because you want people to notice but because you want nothing else but Jesus.

If you take just a moment to ask what you really want in life, I think you would quickly realize how much you want joy, peace and happiness. And this is who Jesus is! He is our joy, our peace and our happiness! Like you always say, I don’t need anything, I just need one person – Just give me Jesus. What this means is that we want to grow in our love for Him so that we can love each other more.

We don't need anything to remind us of love, we only need Jesus. Thirsting for Jesus means that we are parched for His love all the time, every day. It means that we want nothing more than to live Christ. Thank You Jesus for living for us…

Out of the mouth of babes…

Beautiful Butterfly

Why live? Why get up each day and press on?

Sometimes we need to be reminded that life has purpose... life has a reason... life is worth living...

Sitting in my front room and feeling a little low and dejected, I was confronted by a story of a kid who rocked my world with his toughness, resolve, passion and zest...

Known as the "Butterfly Child," Jonathan Pitre reminded me why we say yes to the daily struggles of life. Because through our turmoil, tension and struggle we come to realize the joy of what it means to be alive... we come to realize the beauty of love and the power of our dreams.

Life wants to beat us down, but if our strength is from beyond this world, then we, like Jonathan, can look at life and respond, "Great things do not come easily. But they do come when you try with your full heart, when you're willing and open to embrace life, when you take things one day at a time and use what you've got."

And so what do we have? We have the ability to live life to its fullest if we are willing to focus on the light rather than the darkness. Jesus came to bring us into the light - we only need to choose the light.

All of us have struggles, all of us have pain. Take a moment and watch the story of Jonathan so that his strength, his resolve, his passion for life might motivate you to step out of your darkness so as to see the light Jesus has prepared for you. Step out of your cocoon and take flight you beautiful butterfly...

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