Character over Comfort

As I was walking down State street today, umbrella in hand on this particularily gloomy, rainy day (which I love by the way)... listening to the rain fall against fabric of my umbrella and watching the way it fell from the sky and was dripping off of the trees and buidlings, it was rather beautiful. It was just one of those moments that I know God had to coordinate, that I a simple little human being could find joy and awe in this moment. It blows me away sometimes that God made everything in the universe to worship him. The rain falling from the sky, the trees it was dripping from, even the buildings and the sidewalks... even the rythmic patter of the rain against the earth, all of this is for the Lord. And he created us; you and I to join in this worship. It is just incredible to me to think that the whole earth, even the whole universe is crying out to the Lord, and he invites us to join in the song. How beautiful, how wonderful. Us. Just as we are to join in the chourus of worship with the world.

Sometimes I wonder if I really get it. If I as an ambassador of Christ I know what it really means. I wonder if my mind and soul were really one with Gods if I would make the same choices, or even care about the same things. I know on my way home on State Street I passed people who were homeless, who probably even needed money or food. Would God have passed by so quickly? Besides worshiping God, our only other purpose on this earth is to love our neighbors as ourselves. And if we really felt this, if we really knew what it meant, wouldn't we share the love and hope we have in Christ with them? I feel though as a body we are taken back when things suddenly become risky and less comfortable. It is far easier to think about joining in the worship of God, to be caught up in the beauty of his creation, than to think about the eternal seperation from God our loved ones will face. This is reality. God is real. Eternity is a long time. I pray that we would be strengthened by the Holy Spirit, to never settle for a faith that is just comfortable. Rather we would be a generation that would be more caught up in what God thinks than what the world thinks.

God as we worship you and your creation, help us to step out in faith.