Hey all, so its been forever since I’ve written anything on here and I felt like I should write something, but first let me give a quick update. Just so everyone knows, I made it to Florida (for those of you who don’t know the cru band is playing at Big-Break which is a conference held in Panama city, Florida). The view from our hotel is great and I’ll post pictures later. We play for the first time tonight. Anyway, that’s about all for now. Hopefully I’ll get some recordings so you guys can hear.& Here’s what I wanted to write about.
So today I was having my morning Jesus time when I came across the passage Psalm 40:8. It reads, “I desire to do your will, my God; Your law is within my heart.” This got me to wondering, what exactly does it mean to have God’s law and word written (or contained) in our hearts.& This imagery about the law and God’s word comes up a few other times throughout the bible as well, so it must be important (I don’t have internet as I am writing this otherwise I would look the passages up). Anyway, after thinking about it for a while (aka meditating on it) I decided that, at least to me (and God seemed perfectly fine with it as well), it means that we need to love what God love and hate what God hates.
Now that seems fairly simple but there are a few things that should be noted, mostly about the hate. First let me say that this is an individual idea. In that I mean that I should love what God loves (such as the poor, everyone, myself, good works, the planet, ect.) and I should hate what God hates (i.e. sin, not helping the poor, ect.). I feel as if I am still being slightly confusing, so let me try again. When I am doing good or see someone else doing good, I should have joy well up inside of me.
The same goes for when I break or see the law being broken. I should feel disgust and hatred, maybe even fear. This especially holds true when we are committing the acts. Part of the reason I think that many people have one sin they struggle with for all time is because they know that its not good, but they don’t despise it like God does. The only reason they know that what they are doing is bad is because God’s law tells them that it is bad. They don’t have an internal dislike of what they are doing, therefore it is extremely hard for them to stop. This holds true for when we witness someone else breaking the law, however we need to be careful. We should not like it when we someone committing a sin; however, we must still love that person, even more than someone who is not living in God’s law. They need our help (either so that they can learn the law and about God, or so that if they need support [as in they already believe in God but are slipping up] we can give it to them). Basically I am saying that we should hate the act that the person is doing, but we cannot judge them (which is part of the law).
Anyway, those were just some of my thoughts on that verse, and since I haven’t written anything in a while I thought it would be good to post on here. One last thing, if everyone could just keep myself and the band in their prayers this week, and just ask that we could effectively lead worship for this conference that would be great.
Until next time,
Godspeed.
