Falling

The feeling of drifting when you have been lifted uncomfortably high.

Slower and slower...

Falling...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uuwlkfJ2yg

All of Creation

Captivated but no longer bound by chains 

left at an empty grave 

the sinner and the sacred resolved

This is the reason behind discipline, behind fear. 

As much as we need to fear the LORD, we should also be reminded that God will ALWAYS uplift us. 

Fear and austere come from the realization that He loves us. 

Fear and discipline are not simply instruments that push us to do the work we can't motivate ourselves to do. 

They are attitudes towards living a Christ-like life. 

He doesn't need us to do ANY of his work. He is capable ALONE. 

He cares more for our hearts than our actions. 

Facedown

At this very moment, I feel compelled to bow down again.

1040 movie screening and Jaeson Ma is tonight, but somehow I feel a little...overwhelmed, good and bad - overwhelmed by excitement, overwhelmed by anxiousness.
It's suppose to rain, HARD.

But who are we to count the number of people who will come? Who are we to decide what God has planned for this night, this life? Who are we to say that our hard works are worth the reward? And who are we to say that bad weather only brings disaster?

Is God not powerful enough? Is He not conscious enough? Is He not greater than all of our imaginations combined?

I am compelled to lay my face down again, bow humbly and remind myself that it's all His work, His purpose, His will. Nothing we do will ever change or deter His plan. Nothing, absolutely nothing.

Matt Redman: Facedown