watching the crippled rise

at lipscomb this semester, instead of having the usual tuesday night devo, theyve had a "gospel of sex" series, and to get people to attend they offer chapel credit. of course, seeing as i love skipping actual chapel i still have to go to other things to get my 30 credits, and i actual do enjoy most times the gospel of sex meets.

tonight is no exception, after seeing who went home on the biggest loser i hurried to alumni to sit and listen to the speaker, but everything that he said that involved sex/ sexual sin was nothing i hadn't heard before, but he did say one thing that was amazing to me. he was talking about how when things like death in the family occur, or a faith is completely rocked by something, we have the tendency to become crippled in our faith. its like we are just down on our knees watching the world pass by us without caring about God or what he has in store for us, but after people get back up from being crippled is when you see amazing things start to happen.

when people are new in their faith is another example of this, there is such much passion and fire in them for God that its always inspiring. tonight, Josh Ross made another good point on this topic with saying that its always good to see the crippled walk again, but when the crippled rise and they leap forward, its like they are starting a riot. seeing people who have the ability to mourn but then come up full force into a full love of God and a faith that could even be stronger than it was before helps us to know that when we are down, we can get back up again. many things in life can cripple us, but how amazing is it that God can help us back up. imagine seeing someone who is really crippled one day get up and jump into the air with legs they haven't used in years, and that really started to give me a sense of how amazing it is that God gives us such an ability to fall and his grace will cover us and he will accept us again with loving arms. God is amazing, and in weeks like the one i just finished (6 tests in 8 days) i had forgotten to spend time with God and i had let myself forget how amazing he really is. he really is so good, and i need to try harder not to forget it.