The LAST post i wrote was way back in August. It's focus was on seeing the butterflies in life that God sends us each day. Granted, I was speaking metaphorically, yet I saw literal butterflies daily until October! I know it sounds as if I am exaggerating, but it was a daily encounter. It was truly incredible, as if the Lord was saying, "I know what you we're truly asking for. In fact, I know you better than anyone. But I am sending the literal butterflies to remind you of - oh How I DO LOVE YOU... So much!"(side note to those who are more poetic of heart: If you have read or studied much about Joan of Arc- she felt that the Lord was with her and loved her when she saw butterflies. Apparently when finally burned at the steak, she was surrounded by fluttering white butterflies. I figure if they are good enough for Joan, I am honored to believe the same. And this story goes along with where my blog is heading...)
So Kathryn and I we're hanging out with some AMAZING brothers-in-Christ last night. One happened to mention that The Finger of God documentary came out with an amazing sequel. If you are interested in The Finger Of God at all- I blogged about it almost a year ago- and you can find it on a link connected to the post. Kathryn and I decided there would be no finer way of spending our free Friday, then watching this movie. Cool enough, Jesus provided a way for us to get our hands on a copy, and praise Him for it-cuz it was mind blowing! So these some of my thoughts on the documentary, regardless of there being no real way to convey the amazingness of it all. I preface all of this with EACH OF YOU NEEDS TO SEE IT. EVERY CHURCH NEEDS TO PLAY IT. IT WOULD RADICALLY CHANGE THE WAY THE AMERICAN CHURCH IS ESTABLISHED.
... Alas, I shall step off my soap box momentarily to explain what it was about...
(here is a link to a preview to easily set the tone for the rest of the blog: Furious Love )
The documentary starts out by testing love. You watch this journey of taking love to the most GODLESS places you can find on earth, just to see if love will impact or concur the darkness.
Some stories are gruesome. Some stories are terrifying. Some stories are unbelievable. But the one thing its all centered around is Jesus is the ONLY real LOVE that there is.
We watch as the man and his team travel all around the world. We see brothels, villages, Satanic and New Age Conventions, one of the worst drug capitals in the world, and many many devastating, heart-wrenching places.
It's a radical thought, that ties well into the dark month of October, that in the midst of Darkness- love OVERSHADOWS everything. Love not only overshadows- but it grabs fear, lies, and doubt by the throat and suffocates it.
LOVE. Furious Love. A radical and Furious and AMAZING love.
...During this movie I heard testimonies of Christians whose friends and family we're murdered and being persecuted for their faith, daily. I listened as a man tells a story of visiting the most dangerous village in the world. He met a man who found his fathers head on a post one morning because their family we're Christians. I ask myself, how Lord, how do THEY feel your LOVE? Isn't love non-existent there? Yet they felt the love and presence of God. Needless to say the man who visited was changed forever.
I watched a Satanist give a testimony of how Jesus delivered her! Here is a woman who is a bride within the Satanic church (I can explain sometime to anyone interested). She works with the demonic and was told from her birth that Christians are of coarse the enemy. Yet the Lord brought HER to Christianity? ...REAL love is the ONLY thing that can concur something like that.
I listened as a Pimp was shown compassion, healed physically, then miraculously came to the Lord. Ten minuets later she, and the person who had just helped lead her to Jesus went and told one of her prostitutes about the Lord as well. THATS THE COOL PART- when you are consumed with the LOVE OF THE LORD- u HAVE TO TALK ABOUT IT.
Story after story, person after person, each touched by Jesus, each feeling loved.
By the end of the movie there is not much to say. Your mind just races at the un-fathmableness of it all.
One of the only things I could think of was a line in the song, "When Satan is VANQUISHED and JESUS IS KING" which lead me to think of, "He loves us, OH HOW HE LOVES US".
I don't add pictures to my blog's often. I'm not completely sure as to why this is since i love taking pictures. When it comes to my writing, however, I just tend to let the grammatically challenged-hopefully Holy Spirit inspired-sentences speak for themselves. Yet, the NEAT thing about this picture, the one at the top of this post ...hahaha is I took it myself. That is MY hand. That was MY butterfly! Well, at least one out of the hundreds I saw the last few months. I simply found him on the ground, barely alive. If you look closely His little wing on the left was torn. The Lord let me pick him up and spend some quality time with the lil' broken fellow. Finally, at the end of the day I set him in a tree for peace and rest.
The Lord was like, "This is what I do for YOU! I find you by the road and I see that you are broken. This devastates my heart because you are beautiful and I love you! I pick you up and carry you to safety. You don't have to love me back...I know this. I just want to spend time with you even if you don't understand why! You may still feel broken, but I am the only one who can truly help you fly! You'll never really know how much I love you, but please let me show you. And if you let me I promise, I shall bring you to peace and rest!"
It's funny- a few months ago that blog post was just me looking for the Lord and trying not miss out on the world. He turned it into an amazingly, orchestrated event later- that spoke to me so sweetly. He wants the butterflies, every last one of them.
Many are lost, fluttering in utter darkness- blind of the Love He has. We are the light, we are the ones who MUST see them along the path. It doesn't matter how dark their path is. It doesn't matter if we think they could never POSSIBLY come to the Lord. As the church, it is our job to act in faith. We are the ones who must pick them up, and carry them to safety.
We are the ones who must show them Furious LOVE.
Love. Faith. and Prayers.
~Shattering Statistics
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