It's the perfect day for a picnic, so I'm wearing my Sunday dress all day today. Weather like this makes me want to run out into a field of flowers barefoot and sing at the top of my lungs. It reminds me of a Kate Chopin quote from The Awakening: "Delicious February days, with all the summer's promise hovering in the air..." Yep, that's today.
Anyway, this weekend was an absolute refreshment for me...I went to the 20/20 conference at Southeastern (which made me miss my big brother a lot), and it was entitled, "The Gospel Comes to Life." How beautiful it is to renew an outlook of what the gospel means to us as Christians today: the gospel is as relevant now as it was way back in the times when everyone wore long itchy robes and had huge callouses on their dusty feet. We are not to conform to our culture, but to allow the gospel to exude from us and bring truth to our culture. We love our cities, our people...and we are commanded to be the city within the city that will pray and love. Christ is redeeming all of creation, including the culture in which we live, and what a blessing that he allows us to send out the gospel, although we are so undeserving to even speak his lovely name. We must love and worship in a Biblical way: one that does not accept views that denounce scripture, but one that shows the truth through the love of Christ that sets us free.
How beautiful it could be if I could have a heart like Mary who pours the perfume on Jesus...an act of extravagant love and devotion to her savior in the midst of the whisperings of her culture. I desire to love Christ above all my desires; may they be a future job, a husband, or any pithy homework assignments that try to cloud my mind. We must take hearts filled with devotion to our culture--with right devotion in humility of the Grace of our Lord.
Soli Deo Gloria.
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