MY relationship
I’m at a place in my life where I’m realizing that I’ve been trying to live off of other people’s relationship’s with God. I’m not talking about what I beliefs on certain matters. I know why I believe what I believe. I’m talking about my one on one relationship with God. Seriously…how many of us look at other people serving Christ and say “wow..that’s what a person who walks with God looks like” and then we try our best to look exactly like that? I’m at a place where I don’t want my walk to look like some famous Christian writer such as Louie Giglio. I want my walk with God to belong to the both of us ALONE. People will see Louie Giglio…”oh man…Passion…wow…doing stuff like that is what real christianity looks like.” They look at John Piper “wow…he uses huge words and extremely flowery language when explaining things…that’s what Christianity looks like.” And then…we’ve tried to clone somebody else’s relationship with God into our own lives. I think the only thing we should have in common is that as a result of our relationship with God…the gospel is preached. I think each person has a different role to play.
I think the fruit of a real relationship with God is love for people and people being saved. We will embrace OUR mission…not somebody else’s.
March 25th, 2006 at 3:50 pm
I liked your post, it makes me want to ask you a few questions…
-What does your relationship look like?
-How is your relationship different than the others you mentioned?
-Do you think we all have different missions?
March 25th, 2006 at 5:04 pm
The my relationship is now is centered around the question, “now what?” I mean..I’ve been playing for the youth’s worship team for the past 2 years. So now what? I can’t really draw a picture of it. Perhaps I’m some guy sitting on this plateau waiting for some sign of which direction. Or maybe that’s where God wants me right now…what if he just wants me to wait? Has God said “no…wait wait.” What if my “go” is to wait right now? I’m so used to doing something that the very idea of not doing something kinda catches me off guard.
I don’t know how different my relationship looks. I’ve just tried to imitate what those people say and try to make their person apart of my personality. I’ll take things as if they’re my own in order to sound like I have a very strong relationship…and it’s so I can feel good about myself and where I’m at. I want to feel like I’m at that caliber of a spiritual person. I’ll hear a quote and think about how rich or deep it sounded, and I’ll insert that into my vocabulary because “so and so” said it and since they’re Godly…me using that will make me Godly. I’d say the only way it is different is the fact that they’re being real and using whatever God has been teaching them personally…and I’m just using what God has been teaching me through them. I just know I’ve got to make it more of me and God. Not what God just taught me through “so and so.” It needs to be more intimate…I can’t just live off of whatever God is teaching them.
I think the body of Christ represents different gifts. We all have the same mission…and that is to go unto all nations, sharing the gospel, making disciples. Making the glory of God known to all nations, to all people. God gifts us in different ways, and we use those gifts to make the glory of God known. The way you serve could differ in the way I will serve.