Wow, its' been forever since I've written on this blog. Just finished reading a coupe of people's blogs and it made me wonder why I don't write as muhc? I really should. Last night's Bible study was really good. Well, it was more of a prayer time. No time for Bible study cause we started really late. But we really had a good prayer time. I'm happy with what God did and has done through the regular meeting. I hope that it can continue on regardless of school.
So if any of you want, I mean, sure, you're all welcome to come. We have Wednesday Bible Study at 7:30pm at BMO2. I really think it has the possibility to grow, but we need people.
I just have been thinking about my spiritual life lately. I really want to and try to seek God each day, to experience Him. But do I? No, cause to be honest, I' not truly seeking all the time. There is that whole game we play of I hope I experience God today and get freaked out when we get close to experiencing Him and running away again. It's like a drug addict who is on the way to rehab. We want to break free, but once we see the hospital or rather, once the rehab center calls us, we don't pick up cause we're afraid of finally being free.
It's like bieng in a zoo. Think of this. There are animals who live their entire lives in zoos. They don't know what is outside. There is that innate feeling in all of them that there is something more, that this 'real' is not really reality. And then one day a man comes and asks us if we want to be free. Some animals say, "No, I like it here. I get to be lazy and ignore that the world outside exists. One day I will die here in this little cage, but so what? At least I got to enjoy myself." Sad. Never get to experience what they were made for. Other animals say, sure, open the gates. The man breaks the locks, looks at the animal and says, "You're free. Just follow me."
"What? We're free? Just like that? There must be a guy with a gun outside ready to shoot us!"
"No," the man says, "Just follow me. I'll show you the way to be free of these cages and this prison."
The animals begin following. Others laugh at them or tell them that they are being deceived as they walk by. The animals that are following the man get worried. "What if they are right?" This is when some animals get scared and run back to theri cages. The door is completely open. They can leave. But they are afraid to. The man helps the other animals to freedom, then he comes back and calls to the other animals that ran back to their cages. "Come, follow me, and I'll give you freedom."
"No, it's alright. I have freedom here. This is freedom, being able to do what I want. Folllowing you is not freedom."
"Tha'ts right," the other caged animals say, "I heard about these so called free animals. They live in what is called a circus. They dance and have to dress a certain way and are weird."
The man looks at the one animal hiding in teh open cage. "What do they know? They don't know me. You know me. You saw that I set you free. Follow me and you'll truly find salvation."
The animal stops looking at the man and soon can only hear his voice. The animal keeps hearing him and even covers his ears . Soon, he gets so annoyed at the man who keeps trying to set him free that he slams teh cage shut and says that he wants nothing to do wtih this man who granted him freedom. The man then stands there, staring at the cage, and taps on it softly and calls the animal by his true name. The animal fights and goes crazy, in hopes to scare the man. But he still sits there. Waiting. "Come to me," the man says. He even begins bringing the animal food and drink that tastes better than anything the animal ever tasted. Yet the animal stays in the cage.
"You put me here! You built these cages!" the animal says annoyed, trying to figure the man out. "It's too good to be true."
He sees some other animals come back from outside and tell the others animals in the cages that the man has set them all free and all they need to do is follow Him. He is good, tehy say.
"No!" they scream back. "You're different. I know animals like you."
Some other animals call out from theri cages, "I used to be like them, but now I came back here because I found out there was no freedom. Those hallways are an endless labyrinth. There is this clown that comes by with a big smile who says he's going to give us nicer cages, cages with tvs and other animals. I even heard of this one zoo where we get as many female animals as we want. We can do wahtever. Its freedom! We shoudl follow what the clown says and stay in these cages cause they are going ot be upgraded if we stay."
Despite all the mockery and the foolishness and the lies and the anger of that one animal, the man still stands at the cage door and knocks. "Follow me," he says. "You don't have to be here. These cages have no power over you anymore."
Think about that. That was written just now, no thoughts prior. I like it. It's a nice little start. Think about it. May you have a wonderful day!
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