It is exactly right to go to a New Age festival and witness for Jesus. Why? Precisely because it is there that He is wanted.
What? How can that be? They want Buddha, they want Krishna, they want to do yoga, to meditate, to raise their consciousness, to arouse the kundalini, to see the One in All, but not Jesus!
No, my Christian friends.
They DO want Jesus, they DO want the Living God, the One Who is, Who was, Who is to come, the Pantokrator.
They WANT Him.
What they DON'T want is just another "version."
What they don't want is your ideas about a God who seems helpless to transform your lives, a God whom you seem to own, a God to whom you give your left-overs (even when you proudly give your tithe, you do it so you can receive His blessing, and so you can be seen as prosperous and victorious).
The Jesus the New Age wants is the Jesus who is looking for THEM, who walks to them in His disciples' feet, who smiles at them with His love in His disciples' eyes, who helps them with His disciples' hands.
The Jesus who comes in grace, willing to lay down His life in His disciples' willingness to lay down theirs, even to giving up their freedom without counting the cost.
New Age fairs are like this world of which they are a part, they include the sincere but also the insincere, those interested in the Truth but also those who want to make a profit from those who hope that money can buy Truth.
But the Truth cannot be bought or sold, no, not that way.
We are not those who buy or sell the Truth, for we know the Truth who has purchased us with more than money, and we could never sell Him who bought us at the price of His own blood.
We can go among them, the New Age seekers, following Him Who is already walking in their multitudes, seeking His sheep.
How ironic that man should think that he can seek God, or that he must seek Him.
No, it is the God we did not know who came to seek US.
And now that He has found us, who better to send out with Him to gather the rest of His lost sheep?
Go with Jesus.
2 comments:
thanks for your encouraging comment.
have a kingdom day!
hey again,
and yet thanks again for the comment.
and long (short ones as well) are always welcomed)
it sound really interesting,
and resonates what you wrote about yours and brocks journey.
I myself am in a similar kind of a situation. Im not "going to any church" but learning to live as a body with my two roommates and friends. still asking questions like what does it really mean to be family, Christs bride and His body.
a lot of questions, though Ive been on the process for a while already. but luckily Jesus has done alot also. He is faithful and Im sure He will do all to present His bride infront of Him white and without blemish.
yes, Im quite a lot drawn to the arab world, I just spent three months in israel, really enjoying it. Id love to go back and live on the palestinian side for a while, but Father knows.
Ill check brocks blog, thanks for the tip.
and also maybe it would have been better to e-mail this all to you, but couldnt spot your address!
take care,
a lot of joy to your day!
laura
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