Take the World, but Give me Jesus!

Good is the enemy of best. I find this more and more true as each day goes by. How many times I take the presence of God for granted. Success can be a great deception. You begin to mistake the blessings of God for God Himself. You trade your intimacy with God, your raw passion, your honest desire to seek and know Him for the lesser pleasures. God blesses us with material, relational, financial, physical blessings and there is no shame in it. It is for our enjoyment. Yet, how many times do we mistake the the second blessings given by God in this life as the primary blessing. We get so pre-occupied with "good things" that we forget the "best thing." These good things are not necessarily bad, but in comparison to His presence can they even be deemed good?

This is the beauty, at the same time this is the struggle in Christianity. It is about a relationship with God. You can choose to know Him more or know Him less. You can be as close to God as you want to be, as a well known prophet once said. How bad do I want Him? He's not asking us to give up entertainment, technology, and leisure, these are not wrong things, but when we begin to want these things more than His presence then could it be that our hearts have grown dull, have grown dry, have become spiritually bored? I am beginning to get disgusted with this LA lifestyle. Everyday, there is another movie to watch, event to go to, email to check and I'm realize I am more fascinated with this "stuff" that I have forgotten what it means to be fascinated by an almighty, all powerful, all knowing magnificent God.

More people talk about the i-phone, wait in line for this piece of advanced technology when I wonder if there will ever be a day where an entire city waits in line, waits upon their knees, waits upon the Lord to encounter the very God who invented all, is all and created all that exists, breathes and lives. It is sad, but our society today, our Christian culture, strategizes more over the next movie to watch, restaurant to eat at, video on MTV, clip on Youtube than we do about winning the lost, loving our Savior or sharing about what the Lord spoke to me a moment ago.

We need to be fascinated by God again. I need to be fascinated by God again. How did I become so distracted? Why do I think about all these lesser things more than Him? Don't I get it, that if I would only seek Him and Him alone, get down on my face and seek His presence that I would be transformed from glory to glory? I don't want to look at my watch and check the timer anymore when I spend my time alone with the Lord, busyness can wait, the day can wait, I need my God and nothing can take that except for my own self will to choose to say "no" to the "stuff" of this world, to pray and fast in order to get this flesh under submission and to tell this Devil to shut up with His lies, cause my God is better, He is more desirable than any one person, no person on earth can compare to the beauty of my Savior, this must be so, Lord show me Your glory once again, fascinate me with Your beauty, pull me out of this miry pit and set my feet on a rock in this barren and materialistic land. I desire you more than gold or silver, I need you more than life itself, You are my life, where is your glory? Fascinate me once again, fill me, wreck me, take me up and send me back down to shine this light brighter and brighter each day, don't let my light grow dim, I need you more, I need You right now, I need you God, without you this life is a waste, even these blessings are no blessings at all if I have forgotten You, take this world but give me Jesus. Raise up LOVESICK WORSHIPERS in this land of Los Angeles, it can be done, I REFUSE TO BELIEVE that it cant', in the midst of so many options Lord let us CHOOSE YOU! One day in your courts is better than a thousand else where. Let this be my reality again, let this be my joy, the one thing I look forward to more than anything else, take this world, take these blessings, and like Job, give me Jesus.

"To know Christ and the power of His resurrection that I may fellowship in His sufferings." Phil 3:10 why not? It must be so....



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posted by Jaeson Ma @ 7/21/2007 12:02:00 AM