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I had my first experience this week with Outcry in Cullman! It is a weekly youth~oriented service that started out similar to The Basement in B'ham. It is a really great service. It kinda acts like a weekly revival...to help hs students...college students...or just anyone to keep their focus on our Lord! My sweet cousin Adam lives in Cullman...and does not miss a week of this rockin service. He invited me up this week because after the Outcry service...the rockin band Kutless would be in concert! So I made the nearly hour and a half drive up this Monday night....and I was really surprised. The Outcry band was great....the speaker was really amazing....and Kutless brought the house down. I left feeling more on fire and energized than I have in a long time :)
About mid~way through the concert....the lead singer for Kutless (Jon Micah Sumrall) said something that really got me thinking. It really got me thinking about "HOME"!! The "home" I grew up in....I moved away from many years ago. Then I got married and bought a "home" with my new husband. Maybe one day we will move and buy a bigger "home" to raise a family. These are usually the things I associate with "home"! Like JMS said last night....now with all the chaos and uncertainty in the world we are feeling really uneasy and worried about this place we call "home". With all the world's economy in crisis....the threat of North Korea...the fear of another 9/11....the world feels awful scary...and we begin to feel unsure about our "home". As Christians.....that is EXACTLY how we are supposed to feel!!!!! We are NOT supposed to trust in the things of this world....because this is NOT our "HOME"!!!! We are supposed to put our trust in the one who created this old world....who gave us life...and who gave HIS ONLY SON to die so we would not have to spend an eternity in hell! With HIM is our "home"...our eternal home.
About mid~way through the concert....the lead singer for Kutless (Jon Micah Sumrall) said something that really got me thinking. It really got me thinking about "HOME"!! The "home" I grew up in....I moved away from many years ago. Then I got married and bought a "home" with my new husband. Maybe one day we will move and buy a bigger "home" to raise a family. These are usually the things I associate with "home"! Like JMS said last night....now with all the chaos and uncertainty in the world we are feeling really uneasy and worried about this place we call "home". With all the world's economy in crisis....the threat of North Korea...the fear of another 9/11....the world feels awful scary...and we begin to feel unsure about our "home". As Christians.....that is EXACTLY how we are supposed to feel!!!!! We are NOT supposed to trust in the things of this world....because this is NOT our "HOME"!!!! We are supposed to put our trust in the one who created this old world....who gave us life...and who gave HIS ONLY SON to die so we would not have to spend an eternity in hell! With HIM is our "home"...our eternal home.
It's sometimes hard to imagine...but all the things in this world that I think I love...will fade away! Our cars...homes...possesions...all will fade away. But God gives us something much more wonderful than those things....he gives anyone who will believe in His Son Jesus....the gift of eternal life with Him! A life in heaven with glory and riches far beyond anything this world has to offer. An eternity of no more sin...no more pain...heartache...sickness....a perfect eternity with a perfect Father. A forever home with him! That sure beats any old house I could ever have down here :)
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