Will You?

This is just something that God gave me during our worship session on Friday morning.

Will you make Me your everything?

Your every thought?

Your every action?

Your every desire?

Will you allow me to transform your life?

I am you Savior, your Friend, your Daddy.

But I want to be more

I want to be your Lord

I want your all and I won’t relent until I have it

Will you exalt Me above everything else?

Will you hold Me as Holy, as consecrated

And as the most precious thing you possess?

Will You?

Only you have the answer, I will not fail to recognize it ——

So come on, take my hand

Let Me take you to new heights with Me

This is the Summon. How will you answer?

Well that is it. Hope it speaks to you. I know it spoke to me.

What are you going to order?

This was the line my mom used when we surprised my brother in a McDonald’s in China. We flew out to Chengdu where my brother is living for 9 months just to surprise him and be with him for 2 weeks. While I was there we did some fun stuff like went to some awesome chinese restaurants, played Call of Duty on a ghetto X Box, and set off completely legal fireworks in the middle of any street we wanted. The coolest thing though I have to say is when I was sitting around an apartment full of people whose main goal was to share the good news with Chinese people. But here they were playing board games and just laughing and having fun in an absolutely freezing apartment. That picture right there made me think of how that must have been how the early church was. A group of people whose sole desire was Christ but who lived together and just loved each other, of course they had their differences but they put them aside for what really mattered, that was loving God and loving people.

During this trip I was mainly in a great mood but when a situation caused by me arose it really made me search myself and find out what was the real mood of my heart. As I searched I realized that I could put up a face all I wanted but sooner or later without dealing with the issues going on deep in my heart then soon the face would shatter. Well the face broke and a glimpse of who I really am came through and I hated what I saw. God started to challenge me to let it shatter and let him give me a clean heart, a renewed spirit, and higher thoughts. Well lets just say right now I am raw and that what you see is what you get. I know I aint perfect but I am trying and I am real.

It was crazy how God showed himself so faithful on the trip not just in the spiritual realm but also the physical. In the spiritual He was faithful to show up in a tiny hotel room in China when I was hurt and when I was just sick of hurting others. A cool story of how he showed himself faithful in the physical happened on the day we missed our connecting flight in Beijing. Since it was the airlines fault they put us up in a hotel for the night. Well funny thing is when we got to the hotel the ladies at the desk who spoke very little english and our driver had no idea what was going on. Well in walks Linda a God send if I have ever met one. She comes walking up and while booking her own room sees our dilemma and in perfect english asks us what is going on. When we explain she then turns to the person at the desk and in perfect Chinese translates and within 10 minutes we have our luggage in our room. We had also found out that the hotel had bought our dinner but the menu was all in Chinese. Linda was happy to help and came to our room to translate the order and call down to the front desk to order. We found out from her that she was an English teacher and was only there for one night then she was on her way to another city. Later we joked that we wouldn’t be surprised if we later found out that Linda was in fact an angel. I guess I learned something for myself this trip that I have always been told but guess I just needed to see it myself and that was that God can and will show himself through in any situation as long as it is open to Him.