Fighting to be Heard

"Come along with me and just imagine" was a very common phrase said by one of my professors. I can only imagine that he knew how significant that phrase was. Every time he used a scenario to relate to a study of a passage he said this.

"come along with me and just imagine"

FALL, WINTER, SPRING..
I was put into a place where i faught to be heard. Can you relate? I lived among peers. Side by side we walked, talked, and socially lived with eachother. We were finding our friends, learning till our brains were filled with knowledge of all kinds, and searching for our passions. We were breathing breaths of hast, patience, rude awakenings, anxiousness, excitement... and sometimes... we had no breath at all.  We desperately were in need.

SOMETHING WAS MISSING.

Summers:  The same thing, all over again.

something was missing.

Friend visits: The same thing, all over again.

Something was missing

Fighting to be heard.
Yes, in politics you need to fight to be heard. YES in the classroom you May need to fight to be heard. YES in life you need to fight to be heard. In a crowd? GOOD LUCK.
What about in our Christian community. Do we need to fight to be heard?
Im talking, ideas, suggetstions, comments. But when i say "heard" I mean VALUED. Is what we are saying being valued? Are we valuing others? Are we fighting for others to be heard?

Well, this is what people are doing. They are fighting to be heard, and it is wearing them out. They are living with no air in them and they are exhausted.


I was exhausted.

"come along with me and just imagine"




 

Can it get any more colder?

Thinking about these last few months, and how i came out of the summer in a rough place. I was ready to start new, fresh, and to have the opportunity to be taught. It has been 9 weeks and it seems like 4 days, but things are getting more complex

Complex situations are not my strong suit, Meaning: TECHNOLOGY. Used to like it, used to love it. Now, I stay away. But here I am typing... on a computer. Life is built around technology, and its already keeping me from doing other things,

can you relate?  

It is keeping me from SOCIAL relationship building. Im not talking about Social media relationships, but ACTUAL relationship building that takes place in a face to face enviorment. 


When Jesus appeared back to his diciples after his resurection, he appeared face to face. He even went back to his brother James. James, Jesus' brother,  walked away from him before his death, but the resurected Christ appeared to him.  (1 Cor. 15: 7) He went back to him! How much more did that appearance mean to James, to see his brother... alive, resurected, restored.... as the Risen Savior?

How much more does a " face to face" meeting mean to a person? How much more affective can it be?    What did this mean to James?

PERSISTANT, faithful, Loving... this is our Savior. 

His faithfulness to us, is not any different from what he showed James.

 

Priase our lord, for his Spirit that invades our hearts, and calls us everyday.

 " The Soverign Lord has given me an instructed tounge, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being taught" Isaiah 50: 5