Calm Down…

Last updated on: November 16, 2011 at 4:02 am by Andy Gill

Calm Down… 2011-11-16T04:02:00-05:00 Andy Gill

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Calm Down.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people say that too me.

What most mean by that is, stop stirring the pot, stop rocking the boat, just let things be as they are. For a while I held in there. i stayed true to my convictions. I refused to stay quiet I put Jesus on blast…

But as time went on, I started to think, maybe they’re right. Maybe they have a point. Maybe I should calm down. Whats the harm? So I changed, tweaked my messages, tweaked my day to day actions and conversations, I began to blend in…

Logically thinking through this, it made complete sense. But biblically thinking through this it made no sense…

I remember reading through scriptures alone one night… just digging through both the old testament and the new testament… the conviction was palpable. I broke. I just started balling… because I had run from my calling. I had run from my convictions. I had accepted the status quo. I had become the status quo. So that I could get invited to certain camps to speak, so that I would not be fired from my job, so that I could continue to be asked back to certain churches or youth groups… I pushed God aside and took hold of what others wanted me to become. Fleeing from who God wanted to become. I was Jonah. I was Jeremiah. I was any other person in scripture who turned on or against Gods direct commands and the direction he put on their lives…

How many times do we do this in life? In our regular day to day activities? How many decisions today have made to ignore his calling on our life?

Sometimes Grace doesn’t look or sound like what we want it to. You can’t have grace without truth:

“Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.” – Jesus

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