02/28/2007 Entry: "the journey to quiet"

2-27-07

well i started out this morning by going to starbucks, and getting the biggest drink they had. i came home, sat my drink on the grill outside, and thought, hmmm, now THIS! is a beeeeautiful day to read outside....so i walked in got a chair, my Bible, a book, and my journal. by the time i came out, Mr. Iggy and Destiny my dogs were lapping up my coffee drink, they had knocked over...disheartened but no overcome :) i just sat down, and started reading...i was engrossed in the book "The Knowledge of the Holy" by A.W. Tozer...that is until Iggy decided to come over and cough up all the coffee he just drank on my lap and Bible...so i got up, went inside, cleaned up, and came back outside to find Iggy standing on my Bible, proudly displaying a map of Jerusalem that he tore out of my Bible...needless to say i dusted it off, and sat back down and THIS! is what i learned today :)

This book...i know i have recommended it time and time again...but it REALLY opens your eyes to the magnificence, the GLORY, and gives you a glimspe of God's greatness...

Chapter 2 God Incomprehensible
"Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms. We want to get Him to where we can use Him, or at least know where He is when we need Him. We want a God that we can in some measure control....The god of temporary Christianity is only slightly superior to the gods of Rome and Greece, if indeed He is not actually inferior to them in that He is weak, and helpless while they at least had power"- A.W. Tozer

At first this bothered me, but the more I read, the more I realized how much we really do create a god of our imagination...we rarely realize His power is completely infinite, His glory beyond description, his person incomprehensible this side of life...it REMINDED me of how great God is...yes, i forgot. How stupid you might be thinking that you would forget the obvious...but its always been interesting to me how in the Bible prophets were sent to the people to say things like "Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God...De 4:31 "beware lest thou forget the LORD" it is repeated over and over and over...why? because we do forget...i thank God for reminding me today...He is worthy of our praise...think about it...who are we that the God of this massive universe and beyond would HEAR us...SPEAK to us...LOVE us...absolutely mind blowing...

anyway, just wanted to share that with you all...please read the book! :)

much love, Sara Delight

Replies: 6 comments

Sara-- Yeap. I've been spending so much time on it lately. I didn't realize how many personal poems and drawings and journal entries I have. I'm hoping that I can publish my book to help other teen girls who struggle with what I have. I thought about calling the book, "Overcoming Me In a Dark World" Whatcha think? What's a good name? Once I get the book published you'll be the first person I'll send one of the first copies to for free! :)

Posted by Stephanie @ 03/08/2007 08:03 AM CST

wow...kirsty...you are on the frontlines...that is AMAZING! absolutely mind blowing and i respect you SO MUCh for all that you are doin you little Mother Teresa :) seriously...you are...i wish i could visit you and go with you all for even just a day...man...thank you for sharing...

roger-yes, his books are hard to find sometimes, but i love him. he is one of my favorite authors...makes me think

steph-wow you're writing a book?

Posted by sara Acker @ 03/06/2007 11:50 AM CST

Guess what?? I am almost finished with my book!!! I am so stoked! I can't wait til' I get it published!

Posted by Stephanie @ 03/04/2007 11:08 PM CST

I've heard a lot of good Tozer quotes recently, but I've never read any of his books. After reading your post I decided to go get one. I had a little trouble finding his books. Barnes and Noble didn't have any in stock - they said most were not available. However, they said a Christian book store might stock him as they have access to more book distributors. That's where I found a copy.

Posted by Roger @ 03/01/2007 11:24 AM CST

Tozer is amazing:)

It's so true, we always put God in a box where we think we can predict his actions.

Last night was proof to me. We have our female prostitute ministry on Wednesdays, so me a few staff and some students at our discipleship training school went out with flowers and had the theme 'amazing grace', so we wrote the lyrics of the song and stuck it to the flowers. Before we went out I was wrestling again with this word grace and what it means, and asking God to reveal it more than i've known, more than jsut the usual things you think of.

So we went out trying to give out these flowers, and right away this lady started talking to us and wanted to walk with us. She ended up asking us to sing Amazing grace so we did. All was fine and we kept walking, then she was telling us of the horrors of the neighborhood, of how prostitutes had been murdered. Then she told us she had been abused for 9 years and how she was so stupid for letting him do it.

As we kept in the conversation we got to talk about how there is hope, she was angry that there was no peace, and basically called God a ton of names because he wasn't bringing peace to the world. So we started to share why we were there and that we believed there was hope, so she began to challenge it all. Her father was a free mason and helped build one of their temples so she started quoting that belief. And asking some of the girls to look inside themselves to their soul and see god there. It kinda got creepy and I kept trying to share that Jesus came to bring life. She got mad and called him a fool. She was out for an arguement, and said look im not going to sway from my beliefs, the thing I hate most is a coward. Then we said well to be honest neither would we sway. And she said do you not think if I saw someone being raped I wouldnt kill the man right there. I challenged her that wouldn't that be hurting her more if she murdered someone. She was ready to argue and even said she liked to argue, I was like yeah we can argue til the cows come home, but actually we're here to love you and if it wasn't for Jesus being real i'd still be home in Northern Ireland not on this street at 9.30 handing out flowers. It was cool because it ended well and we gave her a flower, and she left.

It was crazy though because she spoke things out to some of us like you need to believe in yourself. And it made me realize in that moment that there is such much more to the spiritual realm then I know, words have power, and I saw right there that this amazing God spoke through us and if it wasn't for Him we'd either have run away or got angry and yelled at her. Even though it was probably one of the most intense things ever,it made me in awe again at the greatness of God and the power of the gospel, things I probably take for granted because i've grown up hearing it my whole life.

To make a very long story short, I was just amazed that God would single handedly plan out a bunch of 20 year old girls to run into this 50 year old free mason and end up showing her that God is real. And just when I think I can predict God, He throws it in my face and hands me these situations.

Sorry that was so long!

Kirsty

Posted by Kirsty @ 03/01/2007 09:17 AM CST

I sent you a message about this post on myspace. take care Sara.

Steph

Posted by Stephanie @ 02/28/2007 07:21 PM CST