One of the coolest gifts I received this Christmas, besides having some chill time with my wife and getting some decent medication from my Doctor, is the B & W Zeppelin speaker system for my iPod. It is rich, it blasts out great audio stylings, and I'm loving it! It's been a long time since I just put it all 50 gigs of my music on Shuffle and just let it play out, let God take over iPod.
The other day it started while I was put the Shuffle on, and began reading an introduction to NLP. Just as I start to turn to the page on how the mind works through issues of strategy and implementation, an old Bobby Conner teaching shuffles on the pod, with Bobby booming out "ya know I've had enough about strategy, the devil's got the church spending to much time strategizin' so we do not have to implement!"
The God-iPod shuffle is a game I play with God, and usually it works by freaking me out.
Today I've had a great mix of songs shuffling, with a particularly deep pattern going. It started with Graham Cooke speaking on how to Dream big with God. And I quote:
"To enter into Signs and Wonders you have to start Wondering about God"
"To dream with God you need to enter God's dream and ask Him to Dream the Dream He is Dreaming about you"
The mix then moved to some jamaican gospel hip hop with the HMSS Redbeard and upward to the dreamy Hotel Intro from Moby, finally over to some old worship tunes I haven't heard since Vineyard time --1998.
One of my favorite worshippers, the Vineyard's David Ruis sings out about God's faithfulness-- and for some reason, this is where I want to stop the shuffle. He sings it with such boldness and confidence, it's just reality, and I think, where have I been wanting to see God's faithfulness? To say "God, Jesus did this!" is something I have not even thought in the last few months, even years.
I realize I'm looking for God's faithfulness in a season where there's been my luke-warm life with God, the passing away of some good friends, and a certain type of work (the work not a bad thing though!)-- and this week even the death of a dream with the loss of Jill Austin. The dream for Jill was to film her in concert, in the round, where she'd be free to just dynamically speak out the prophetic-- but rather than a static god-tv conference, we would film it as a rock concert: lots of music, art, great lighting & movement. Jill was a thunderstorm when she ministered-- why hadn't anyone captured that storm, with people flopping and the Holy Spirit being stirred up, as the art that it was?
Anyway the David Ruis tune caused me not to despair about God, but to desire the faithfulness of God- to see even death being defeated by His life, to see it imparted into this life here and now, to see restoration happen by participating in it.
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Hey it's good to hear your thought via the blog again. Very interesting stuff.
There is a book I want to read. And your post made me think about it again, it's called...
If God Disappears by David Sanford. I think it's an interesting premise about how we allow our feelings and circumstances to affect our faith. Forgetting about His faithfulness. I dunno, maybe it's a horrible book. Who knows... Looks and sounds interesting.
Posted by: Jason_73 | 01/13/2009 at 11:14 PM