Realizing the Freedom

I am still exploring all the new applications on my iPhone through the "App Store". If you don't know what it is here is a quick briefing. Apple gave a challenge to third party developers to create software for the new iPhone 2.0 software. Over 250,000 answered the call. One of the applications someone created is called "Pandora-The Music Genome Project". What you do is enter the type of music or artists that you like and it creates a "radio station" without interuptions. It is awesome and the best part it's totally free and legal. No reason anymore listening to the radio or XM radio. It was in the morning so I thought about listening to praise music. The first song to come on was "Better is One Day" by Chris Tomlin. This is one of my favorite worships songs of all time. First of all it reminds me of my time serving at Hope E. Free church with the youth group. (Shout out to Goat!) We had a little worship band going and this was one of our songs. After a couple of minutes pondering about my time there, my thoughts moved on to the meaning behind this song. What a way to start your morning thinking about God's presence and how holy He is. This song declares his presence is so beautiful to spend one day is better than thousand days elsewhere. Now that thousands elsewere might be pretty good but God is better. Many people especially christians think God's presence, heaven, will be a time just sitting around singing Kum Bah Yah. Truth is quite the opposite, I believe we will spend the time enjoying and lavishing in God's glory. Period... Many will think, dude...so boring. But imagine our life today and the perversion of sin. The ability to sit through the evening local news and come away positive is almost impossible. What a relief they set aside 30 seconds to talk about a positive story and it's about a child fighting for his life due to cancer... Really?? That is why our thoughts need to be on God and not the things of this earth. (1 John) No matter how hard we try and find satisfaction through the fabrication of man we will always come up short and dissapointed. To the alcoholic it's one more sip to find happiness, to the millionaire it's one more dollar, and to a man it's one more night in bed with another woman to be happy. All of this leads to something else...more. Through God's own Son we can find joy and true satisfaction knowing that we are loved. Which was demonstrated by Christ's total sacrifice for my sin on the cross. If you have never experienced this I would encourage you to not immediately "talk to a pastor" but first reach out to God. Ask Him to reveal Himself to you, and He will. If you seek God, you will definately find Him. It is worth it, because better is one day in His courts than thousands elsewhere.