a drop of water

Jamie mentioned in his sermon a few weeks ago at Coast, that we are hungry for God’s direction, for the power of the Spirit and for his answers to our questions and problems, but we are not hungry for our character to be made more like God’s character and not for the fruit of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, patient, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

It was a sharp reminder to me.  I want the answers, and the power to work in people’s lives and pass over the working through the hard stuff of love, joy, peace, patient, kindess, goodenss, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control in my personal relationships with God and people.

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Jamie also posed the question, “What are we known for?”  It’s an interesting question to answer yourself and ask a close friend.  I think that the point of the question is not to ‘just’ find out what people think of you, but to realize that what your are known for is a direct result of how much you are letting God into your life.  His work in you and through will (or lack of) will overflow out in your actions and people will know you for that.  Examining what you are known for is one window into how God is working your life.

Maybe a different way to pose this question is, “What are you sowing in your life?”  In light of Andy Crouch’s call to be cultivators and creators, I think we need to be sowing.  Then we have to ask the equally important question of where we are getting seeds to sow?