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Originally Posted by NotforSale
I check in to see the posts, and notice so much debate. You wonder, how will we find Him in the midst of so much rhetoric.
Please God, show yourself to us!! Show us your love! Take us beyond the quagmire of a million opinions!
Sometimes it seems, God is before us all, His head low because we can't rise above our "Know It All" attitudes and prisoned theory!
Friends, I'm hungry! I want to know Him! I want Him to be alive in my soul! My heart aches for His voice! I want to sing a new song!
I come before Him broken today. Fill my cup, Lord. I open my heart to you, Lord. Please, come and dine with me. Please my Father from above, I need your arms around me! My heart is open. Fill it with all that You are!
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I share your sentiments, Brother/Sister. Maybe all the rhetoric symbolizes some that have given up on knowing Jesus like Paul said ( "That I might know Him...."), and have settled on just knowing ABOUT Him. Oh, I want to know about Him, sure, but, I want to know HIM.
Coming to AFF sometimes reminds me of the words from Psalms, "How shall we sing the Lords' song in a strange land". Sometimes I come here and its like a strange land, filled with strange things. Things unfamiliar to me and, if I might add, strange things that don't belong in a familiar land filled with familiar people. Things like animosity, discord, and DEBATE.
I know... I know...its an open forum where anyone posts anything (to a reasonable degree). Yes it is an open forum, but largely populated by poeple that have a significant commonality- Christian. More specifically Pentecostal. Even more specifically, Apostolic. But, I can't help but think of Achan who buried some unfamiliar thing in his tent and has brought something into the camp that displeases the Lord. And, as a very small and insignificant part of this forum, I try to seach my heart out to rid myself of that which displeases the Lord. I do so by checking my spirit- and my words- BEFORE I post them. I can let some of my mispellings and typos go.... what I can't and try not to let get by is any word or deed that might be anything other than uplifting, encouraging and edifying.
I appreciate your spirit. And may God fill you with all of His best!