And the Lord said to Moses,
Say to all the assembly of the Israelites, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.
Each of you shall give due respect to his mother and his father, and keep My Sabbaths holy. I the Lord am your God.
Do not turn to idols and things of nought or make for yourselves molten gods. I the Lord am your God. The sermon was about how if we claim to belong to God, we should let God decide what kind of people we should be and how we should worship. He talked about how so often we let others dictate to us about what we should do in regards to God.
I use to have tons of hang ups about worship because
1. I didn't read the Bible for myself.
2. I didn't have a revelation about what the Bible meant for me from the Spirt
3. My relationship with God was surface
4. I was more concerned about other's watching me than my own walk with Him
Once I cleared up some of those, got in some community, and started going to churches that actually dimmed the lights to help facilitate worship, I got it together better. Still not perfect.....still feel awkward crying in front of my mom and I'm a serious cryer. Its a thing between me and Jesus.
The thing that stuck with me the most though was when Pastor talked about how No one can tell you how to walk out your Christianity because no one knows your story or your relationship with God. No one knows what He did for you that you know was Him alone. I feel that way a lot. I feel that way in regards to my sexuality. I honestly prayed about my own sexuality and the biggest thing God impressed upon me was that my Faith needs to control my sexuality. That I still need to maintain the same standards. He said I'm glad you found yourself because you hating this amazing thing I created called sex wasn't my will for you at all! Seek and ye shall find y'all!
I'm also not going to let anyone convince me that something I know was God wasn't. I don't believe in coincidences. I don't believe in luck. I believe in God. This sermon was a lot about knowing your own walk with Him and that that will sometimes set you apart. My walk with the Lord sometimes does make me feel and look crazy. I know that. I also know that God is.
The next idea He talked about was being set apart. Perfect segway.... He talked about how you're going to have to walk alone sometimes because what the Lord is in your life is yours. Being set apart to God will sometimes mean being set apart for God and being set apart with God. I totally understand how that can happen. There's just some stuff that's just yours and its going to make you different. Lord knows I'd rather be different in Him, than without Him. Being knowingly without Him is the definition of crazy.
So yea....that was Sunday. It was rather awesome because everyone talks about the prayers of their mothers and grandmothers but this was about your walk of your own self. Yes grandma's walk was impressive. Yes, you relied on her faith. But where is my own faith? I knew Him because my family knew Him, but I love Him because I got to know Him for myself.
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