Refresh

Attending Refresh conference yesterday was awesome, and was also confronting for me. It lives up ot it's name in that it is a place which has spurred me onwards. I'm renewed and feeling much refreshed. This is the first place in at least a year which has really prompted me to think and to come at a Christian issue and to think hard on it - much to my scared admittance.

I also came to the conclusion that I have been really lazy in my faith; as ashamed as I am to admit it. I've had a rough trot recently, and one of the things which I think I have done is allowed myself to become complacent when it comes to sinfulness. I've justified my sinfulness by telling myself that you "just don't have the capacity to deal with this at the moment" - or that you "will get around to it, when things are going better for you". A lot of my sin is my own thoughts, my own selfish desires, my own ego which demands that it be stroked. I think Rowan summed it up best when he said:

"Perfection is not obtainable for a Christian, but complacency with regards to
sinfulness also is not an option."

Well, it was enough of a kick in the pants to me. I was sitting on the rooty hill on the way home from the conference and was thinking that this is something that I need to take seriously. And seriously because I want to glorify God. Not because I want to impres people, not because this makes me a better person or a better Christian in the eyes of other people - but because this is for God.

So in conclusion, I set myself the challenge to be more humble, to be more forthright, and to seek holyness and purity as of first importance.

Praises to God in all situations.
Peace,
Mick.