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today i was driving to a staff meeting and praying about how i feel disconnected from what God is doing around me.  the meeting was not extraordinary.  it was just a simple meeting but when i left i noticed that i didn’t feel quite so disconnected.  in fact, i felt much more connected to what God is doing in my community and my church than i have in a couple of months.

i know that my recent inconsistency has left me feeling like i’m drifting spiritually.  so this afternoon i get a few minutes to spend in the Word and i start reading Hebrews 2.  suddenly i realize that i haven’t been paying attention to what i have heard.  it’s so easy to make God way too small and me way to big, at least in my own head…

Tags: christian wal, devotion, hebrews

Hebrews 1:3 – Jesus is the exact representation or exact "Stamp" of who God is.  His very WORD "carries" the universe or all things.

how can i even pretend to understand Jesus?  who am i that HE should even think of me?  yet i constantly roam around acting as though I am important.  MY word cannot carry the universe.  in fact, i can’t even get my kid to stop crying. 

a few weeks ago @ #CraveLife, the worship band introduced me to a song by Addison Road called “What do I know of Holy”.  If you haven’t heard it, you should definitely check it out.  the song talks about the distance felt by an ordinary person compared to a Holy & Perfect God.  it does a really good job of articulating how disconnected and small we can feel.

sure am glad for the latter part of Heb 1:14 

Tags: #CraveLife, devotion, hebrews, HoM

Photo by westera2 via flickr (creative commons)

i’ve decided to go through the book of hebrews for a while during my devotional times.  it should be noted that i will probably study the same passage for several days so the posts won’t be in verse order…

i like hebrews as it tells some great stories of faith & people with messed up lives who overcame their faults through the power & good news of Jesus.

hebrews 1:9  – speaking of Jesus, the Father says:  "You have loved righteousness & hated wickedness.”

What is wicked?

the greek word indicates lawlessness or without the law.  the idea seems to be that of acting as if there were no rules.    maybe it’s like…this particular rule doesn’t apply to me or this rule isn’t important.

seems a bit scary how often i act the things i do aren’t as bad as the things others do.

Tags: christian walk, devotion, hebrews, Jesus

i’ve been wanting to blog for a long time.  i just keep struggling about what i want to write about.

i’ve had this blog for about 6 months but i have been very inconsistent.  heck, inconsistency seems to be one of the things i’m good at.  my spiritual life is very much the same way.  sure there are moments when  i am close to God, when i’m “spiritual”.  however,  i’d have to say that on the whole, it seems much more like i fail to grasp what Jesus is trying to teach me most of the time.

carving out time to spend with Jesus is one of the hardest things for me (as it is for a lot of us…).  so i figured i might let these two areas of my life intersect for a while.

i’m not naive enough to think writing will help me clean up my spiritual life or even make my walk more consistent, but maybe this experience will help me learn a little…

(photo by *sean via flickr)

Tags: christian walk, church, devotion, HoM, youth ministry