Yahweh

I wanted to share a few things from the man that so many people don't know what to think about, Bono. He's written some amazingly deep words, and this song comes from the track called, Yahweh.
"Take these shoes, click clacking down some dead end street
Take these shoes and make them fit.
Take this shirt, polyester white trash made in nowhere
Take this shirt and make it clean, clean.
Take this soul, stranded in some skin and bones
Take this soul, and make it sing" - U2
I was thinking about how true these lyrics are in terms of what we, as the redeemed, have been made into. We are a people that are loud and just making noise, essentially going to some end that we know doesn't lead anywhere pleasant, but yet we just put our noses to the ground and trudge on. But God helps those shoes that have only made noise for so long actually fit, and do what they are supposed to.
We are like a shirt that is nothing special. We are not truly some designer fashion as we'd like to believe, but like the song says - polyester white trash, with no meaning, nothing! But with God, we are made clean, we are special, we've been bought with a very high price - one that we could never afford - and we're clean.
We have a soul that is imprisoned to the skin and bones that we can't escape. We try to satisfy it in so many ways and by so many means, but we ultimately agree with the Rolling Stones when they sing, "I can't get no satisfaction". But God takes our soul, opens the eyes of our heart, and makes this soul that was once a slave to sin, now a free bondservant with a good Master. We can sing because we are redeemed! What are we worth? Well, we are worth God leaving heaven to come and live on earth, and taking the form of a man, being rejected by His own creation in humans (even the demons knew who He was), having the very beings that He created crucify Him, and dying for the sins of man - all this to ultimately atone for the sins that we could never pay for - and He rose again, signifying victory over sin and death.
Why is this so important?
Because the other night we had amazing opportunities to share Jesus with so many people. We went out with a group of 11 people, which is great. We got to have some amazing conversations. I had a guy named Jordan, who I went through everything with him, and he wanted to accept Jesus, he even prayed to accept him, but I believe that he is confused about what he did, and there was nothing I could really do more at that point to explain more to him because of other circumstances at the time; so please pray that God does a work in him and that he understands what he did or didn't do. I don't want converts so that I can say someone got saved - but I want converts so that they can know that their soul is free.
I talked with a guy named Chris who couldn't understand why I didn't do some of the things that I could be doing. We talked a lot about who Jesus is and what He did, and this dude was having the walls around him broken down by the love of Christ, but one thing stood in the way - a huge thing, so please pray for Chris.
We spoke to the masses through preaching during Thursday, Friday & Saturday night. Probably within the three nights, we got to share the gospel in preaching with over a thousand people. We passed out about 4,000 tracts in one weekend. Yahweh was at work!!!
Please, know that God loves you, and that God has provided the free gift of eternal life and relationship with Him through the blood of Jesus - that has been shed for you! Pray with me as we long to see souls saved around the world!
Last night, I hung out with a group from Youth with a Mission. They will be working with Tony and myself next week. What an excited group of Jesus-followers. It's a privilege to get to pour into these people and be poured into. They are mostly from the western part of North America, but some are from Korea and England - so it will be a sweet week to get to watch people grow in their witness and walk with Jesus!
Today- I am finishing my sermon for Sunday, because tomorrow I am helping someone paint their new apartment. So - I must get working.
"Take this city, a city should be shining on a hill
Take this city, if it be your will
What no man can own, no man can take
Take this heart, take this heart, take this heart
And make it break" - U2

Letting my light shine because of Him.
Dwight