A sign of things to come

Well I thought I would never see the day that I would be sucked into the whole "blog" world. But the more I think about it, the more I realize how great of a thing it is. I find myself thinking about a number of things and God has really been laying a lot on my heart lately, and I thought this might be a great way to sort it all out and just pour out my hear and mind. So anyways, here it goes...

"God calls us as we are, but not to stay as we are..." Oh how those words have impacted my life and have been coming true in my life lately. Ive really been reading a lot and just filling my head with as much stuff as I can. I guess you can call it a hunger for God, but the more I love God, the more I want to know about God and what and why he has called me to do. The theme lately that God has really been showing me is His vastness and glory and power in everything. How BIG He is and how small I am. I mean I dont know if you've looked at me lately, but by the world's standards, Im a rather large fellow. And for anything to make me feel small is quite incredible. But this smallness, or even shrinking feeling is unlike any ive ever felt. Its a good shrinking feeling. And I think that as a Christian, everyone should have this feeling. Louie Giglio has a way with explaining the glory of God in the Universe and the human body. Ive just got done reading through his book entitled "I am not, but I know I AM." If you havent heard of Louie Giglio, look him up. If you havent read that book, go out and get it, trust me, you will not be disappointed.

But anyways that book is where I got the title for this blog. In it, Louie talks about how in Exodus when God talks to Moses through the burning bush and He tells moses to tell his people what He just told him, Moses asks "well who should I tell my people who sent me?" And God says "tell them, I AM sent you." So hopefully the book title makes a little more sense now. But in the rest of the book, Louie just really pounds on the fact that we are just a blip on the radar, a vapor in thin air, a small supporting role in such a huge story. We have a choice; we can choose to have a starring role in our own short play, or we can take a smaller supporting role in the huge story that God is making right now. I dont know about you, but id rather take the small supporting role of a story bigger and longer than I can imagine, than taking the leading role in my own little play/movie that I call my life. You see sin has such a way of decieving us all. What it does is it puffs our ownselves up, and it shrinks God down. But we have to right size ourselves and God before we can ever even start to begin to understand anything about God or the bible or theology or God's will for your life. So here lately, God's really been putting everything back into the right perspective; into the way and size things really are. And its been the most humbling and amazing experience ever. Ive learned more in the past 4 months than I have in the past 4 years, all because ive realized that my name is not Chris Pressley, or atleast it shouldnt be. Because really if you think about it, our names are something unique about us; something special. But really to put it in the right perspective, my name should be i am not. Because really, i am not. As much as I try and want to be, i am not. Realizing this simple fact that i am not, but He is I AM, realizing how inadiquite I really am, and how much I cant do things on my own, has spoken volumes to me.

i am not, but i know I AM

I know im probably not making a whole lot of sense, but hopefully you understand somewhat of where Im coming from. Anyways, to wrap things up, I just got back from Passion and oh man, it was absolutely amazing!!! It was definately something that I needed. I get so used to leading worship and get caught up in worship mode, that sometimes I forget to just step out and get away for myself and just truley worship. I mean dont get me wrong, I still worship when Im leading worship, but when you step back and away from just to do it yourself and someone else is leading it, its a totally different experience. But it was well needed. But anyways, ill save the details of passion for my next post (whenever that will be haha). Anyways If you've read down this far, God bless you. You are a determined and very caring person. So thank you! Anyways, until next time....