Live Out Loud

I don't think I will be able to explain how much God is doing right now, I'll do my best.

We studied the books Titus and Philemon this week - amazing. Honestly we read through them first and I had no idea what the point of the books were about, Philemon went right over my head. Titus was good but still I wouldn't have said 'life changing'... well that changed.

Philemon is about how in the end Philemon has a choice to make... to do what the world thinks is right or to do what is godly. Paul is asking him to take back a slave that had ran away and to take him back as a brother in Christ, but two important details are that a master has the right to kill his slaves if they run away and get caught, also Philemon was in a higher leadership position so many people would be looking at him to see what he did. I think that Paul knew this and was all part of the plan to proclaim Gods love even more.

This is why I think that: by Philemon taking is slave (Onesimus) back as a beloved brother and give him the freedom to do Gods work Onesimus would have to chance to reach so many people (thus farthing the Kingdom), by the amount of forgiveness that Philemon would have given to Onesmius would have pushed Philemon to be challenged in an area in this life that he wasn't over strong in and making him stronger for Christ (thus farthing the Kingdom), AND everyone around in the church, in the city, and most slave owners would see the love and grace of Christ shinning through him (thus farthing the Kingdom)!!!!! Do we see a theme?

AND THEN

The book of Titus...

"DECLARE these things; exhort and reprove with ALL authority. Let NO one look down on you." (2:15)

The world is out of order and we now must live in away that is godly by having knowledge of the truth. God has already redeemed us so we need to give back to him the only way that we can... our lives. Thats really all he is asking of us.

God has been teaching me so much this week about being okay with the challenges he places infront of me. As some of you know I have been having a hard time with the whole school thing, my biggest weakness is reading aloud and we only read the whole bible aloud... no big deal! ha but honestly God is moving in my world, he is showing me little glimpse of what might come which is so encouraging. Also one of the DTS students Jess (who is from Calgary) has become one of my closest friends here, she is amazing and has such a beautiful relationship with God and is so in love which really makes me want more out of God. Just so great! so life is good Australia is good! God is AMAZING! I'm really excited for this coming week .... Hebrews (only my favorite book)