One Heck of a Night

I haven't written in a while because I felt uninspired, and unmoved.  I felt like I didn't have an outlet to put every thing God gave me in to.  

It's like filling up a car with gas.  Unless you drive your car and burn that gas up, you can't fill it up anymore.

That's what I've felt like for a while.  After the One Thing conference at The Father's House (which was AMAZING, by the way), I went to church.  As I was standing there during worship, I realized that I didn't have any more room to put the Spirit.  I was already full and hadn't used any of my "gas."  

My best friend and fellow Cru-leader and I met with our mentor today.  As I was telling her this, she said, "You should find a place to spend some of your 'gas' and maybe Cru could be where you could spend some of what you're being filled with."  And tonight I realized just how on spot she was with that remark.  

Tonight Robert's Cru met up with U of R's Cru.  And it was really awesome.  I was so far outside my comfort zone. I was in a group where I knew no one.  But we were all connected in our faith.  In my group, we all shared where we were uncomfortable with the future.  For me, it's working with inner city teens and being a cop. I have no idea how I'm going to do it, I only know that God is faithful and will bring me to it and through it (sounds cliche, but I'm totally serious).  

But it didn't just end with UofR.  On the way back we were all in the van joking and laughing and talking. I don't know how we got on this topic, but our third leader asked one of the guys in the group to share his testimony sometime, so in our last 5-10 minutes, we heard this man's testimony.  

I don't have words.

This man has seriously done and been through SO MUCH. 

And I learned tonight, for the first time, how absolutely powerful a testimony can be.

Everything that this man went through, everything that he did, everything that happened to him not of his own fault, and God's grace makes his story so incredible.  

It gave me hope.  

To hear that twenty-three year old's testimony- well, something that powerful changes your life.  And it reminded me of why I got involved in this in the first place.  It's because people don't know how GREAT God's love is.  They don't know that they can be forgiven and washed clean.  They don't understand that someone already died so they don't have to.  

So my prayer and challenge tonight for all of you reading, is to reach those who are apathetic and un-churched. Reach those who don't know who God is and show them how great His love is.  Tell your story, and don't be ashamed, because you've been washed clean.