Over this Christmas Break, I went to Passion 2010. While I was there I heard Andy Stanley speak. He spoke on a way to live and he used three chairs to break up the different attributes of life: Who we are, Who we hang out with, and what we are going to do with our lives. He said that we first need to figure out who we are going to be before we figure out who we are going to hang out with and what we are going to do. While he was teaching, someone yelled out, "What about Jesus?" Because he didn't say the word Jesus so far in his talk, this guy assumed Jesus wasn't being talked about. Just because Jesus is not said verbally does not mean he is not present spiritually. The Holy Spirit is everywhere even when Jesus isn't being named. I hope that the Christian lifestyle hasn't turned into a thing based off of emotion and circumstance. I hope we can actually be the body of Christ where we don't feel like we have to conjur anything up to get him in the room or say a few church words to make us feel like he is there. The reality is HE IS THERE. Always has been, he is right now, and he will always be. I hope we don't have to always take some tool of music or words of speech to feel like we have to pull his arm to get him to come meet with us. But, instead, have an open heart and see the reality that the Holy Spirit is in our midst. That we don't need labels to put on him, that we don't bring him down to our level. We belittle Him and never see the true reality of who He is. "What we think about God is the most important thing about us."- A.W. Tozer, I pray that we could be a generation, that could seek Him, be devoted to Him, and see Him in everything even in the presence of persecution or mocking His name. He is still there.
