A Life Part 1

Well its now summer and I figured that since I have been sitting around and doing a lot of thinking I would share some of my thoughts. 

I had been reading a book called Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne for 2.5 years. It took me a long time but I finally finished the book. Seems kinda odd because a friend gave me that book in a time that I was struggling in my life and it seems that just as I finished the book I realized what was causing the struggle (I'll get to that later). 

As I was reading through the book I felt myself asking so many questions. Was what he was saying right or did I disagree with it. Half the book I felt 50/50 but the one thing that I think he changed my mind on was that doing just enough isn't ENOUGH for God. Just barely passing through life giving the little amount is not what God wants at all. He wants a life that is fully devoted to Him. A life that is radically living out for Him at every second of our lives. It was being a radical that the book was pointing towards as this Irresistible Revolution.

After finishing the book I looked back over what I had read and saw that my life wasn't there. I was just doing the things to just barely get by. Doing just barely wasn't good enough though. It didn't leave me with a life that was for God, it just left me with a corrupted life that was far from what I should have been doing. I tried doing things all by myself but we as humans can't do anything on our own. We were built to be in community.

This community is with God and with others around us. I believe that they both go hand in hand though. These two things are separate but also together. There are times when we need to just be alone with God and then there are times that we need to be together as a community either for worship or just for fun. These communities are what keep us to what our lives are to be for without them we will fall back into a corrupted life.

I know that because of my lack of trusting people and God I let myself think that I could do things all on my own. A friend pointed out to me though that it was the fact that I focused on overcoming my sin that I forgot that all I had to do was give it to God. I had to trust in Him and get over myself. I could do nothing by myself but with God nothing would be impossible. All I had to do was give God everything and live that radical life. 

Sounds simple but its still a struggle everyday if not every second. I am human and in this life I can do nothing alone.