Viva la Vida!

I really wanted to put this out there as more of a challenge to us as brothers and sisters in the Father. Let's live in our hearts in Jesus. Coldplay's HUGE and awesome album 2 years ago was called "Viva la Vida!" or better in English as..."Live the Life."

We are image bearers of the Father. I suppose if someone were to meet the son of Einstein, you would assume he knew a thing or two about advanced physics. Or if you met the daughter of Jane Austen, you would expect her to be able to write a decent essay on love and relationships (well, we would expect an excellent essay). Greatness is expected out of the children of the great. And why shouldn't it be? They grow up being mentored and fathered or mothered by a person who is excellent at their trade. Unless they have a heart completely opposed to their parent's heart for work, we would normally suppose that the child would be as good as the parent. I think us imaging God is similar. He is great, at everything. He is the greatest Father, the greatest Creator, the greatest Physicist, Dancer, Cook, Chemist, Engineer, Rower, Pilot, and so on. He is great at it all. So let's get released in our hearts and let go of what's holding us back and really apprentice ourselves to the Father in our work and just go do it. Maybe for some, that would be leaving that dead end job going nowhere that's a far cry from what we want to do. For others, it might be going back to school and being apprenticed by God there. Others it might be going away to do serious social work for the impoverished. And others it might be bring the Gospel to a land that has never heard it before. Whatever it is, this world cannot have hold on us as sons and daughters of God himself. When we are released into his work, we are apprenticed by God, and we draw ever nearer to him as we now know him in a way we never could before. Because now, we experience him as someone who not only cares about us, but understand what we really want to do with our lives. And that is incredible and liberating.

So let's throw off this world and follow Jesus into the unknown, into a land flowing with milk and honey (as the Israelites did). For some this might require a battle, but let's go charging into the battle with the Spirit and we will win. And be free in his heart. And there image him as only each individual son and daughter of God can. We will finally be who we are meant to be.