"Yes, Lord"

This weekend was absolutely incredible. Almost 3 days, 2 nights, a lot of driving, and a lot of rain; Passion '08 in Dallas, TX was a life-changing experience. It is amazing to me that 6000+ students, mostly college, from the southern region of the United States would come to shout praises to their God. They came to be renewed by a vision of following Jesus, challenged by mentors to become "Change" on their campus. Students gathered to pray for the healing of broken campuses all over the world, to give away money, clothes, towels, and socks for people who are desperate for them.

I am blown away by the fact college students are typically not very wealthy, most don't have a whole lot of extra laying around. But this weekend, I witnessed that it doesn't matter. The clothes off of their backs and the clothes for tomorrow were eagerly given away when it meant helping, restoring, and providing for peers who had lost everything in a tornado that wiped out their dorms and college campus. Union University students miraculously made out unscathed as their entire campus was destroyed by the tornado. These students at Passion responded without any preparation, without being told ahead of time that there was a need. They gave because when people hurt and when people need, there is God. And so there we should be also!

So what I have learned this weekend is that no matter what the need, no matter what the hurt, now matter what pieces are scattered, no matter what the circumstance...when God's heart calls out to your's and to mine; our response should be simple. "Yes, Lord." We want our hearts to be God's heart, we want our purpose to be God's purpose. We want these things because the name of Jesus has changed us. We are and have always been "the problem" and yet our Father chooses to USE US to be the SOLUTION to the problem, our problem. God's power heals, it changes, Jesus loves with compassion for the sick, His Holy Spirit fulfills and completes, and we raise His name above everything and we do it by simply saying, "Yes, Lord." Isaiah 26:8