Friday, January 20, 2012

Character of God

Lectures this week were insane. So, so good. This week was all about the character and nature of God. Our speaker was Chris Adams which is a leader of the School of Worship. I want to explain everthing he said this week, but I have SO many notes and thoughts I just wouldn't even know where to begin.

There was one day however that he spoke on Jesus..how great He really is and what He truly did on the cross. I was seriously trying with everthing I had not to cry when he went through it all....after class I discovered that I aparently am a major softy beacause everyone else was just fine but I have never heard anyone teach about Jesus like that. Ever. I've hardly even been taught about Jesus at all. So, when I found out that this is what he was going to speak on, I was extemely excited to get things going.

We really broke down the scriptures that told us exactly who Jesus is and what He does. I don't know exactly how to explain it all through writings....in my journal it's mainly doodles that probaby only I can understand.

Col 1: 15-20

"the Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in Him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everythin He might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile to Himself all  things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through His blood, shed on the cross"

CHRIST-  ALL THINGS- created by Him
                 ALL THINSG- created through Him
                 ALL THINGS- creaed For Him
He is the purpose of ALL creation! It was for HIM.
                 ALL THINGS hold together IN HIM
                 ALL THINGS are made right to God through Him

I learned that I have this kinda of "truth box" that I have built up throughout my lifetime. Things that I have placed in there that are hard for me to change my mind about...I don't waver back and forth...I know that I know that I know that the earth is round. Just beacuase I've grown up knowing that. But not everything in that box is true. Some of my beliefs about God have been so warped that even though I know what to say on the right situations, with my actions, with my heart, I don't necessarilly believe it. My actions don't show it. I have formed this warped view of God in a way. A way of mistrust towards Him. That has really been revealed to me this week. That I need to chose to trust Him with everything. I need to let go. To belive that He really is all that He says He is...that He looks at me with love and compassion, with love and mercy. How great is His love..

Another thing that really stuck out to me on this week was this:

what is the greatest consiquence of sin?

everyone that chooses against God will be gone in hell forever. God says He will wipe away our tears, but no one will ever be able to wipe away God's tears. The tears He cries over the children that He's lost forever..He pays forever. It costs even God. The ultimate price of sin is God carrying part of it for us....Him suffering for our loss. And no one can take that away from Him. He always pays the cost! What does the infinate grief feel like? God pays that cost forever.

I don't want to live in a way to cause God any more aditional pain.

I want to help lead others into a relationship with Him so that God won't have to suffer for them....so that He will get the joy of seeing all of their faces in heaven.

"Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, in the Name of the Son, in the Name of the Holy Spirit., and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. Surely I will be with you always to the very end of age." Mathew 28:19-20

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