“Fight for the heart of your King!”

Today I picked up the book The Barbarian Way by Erwin McManus. Only a couple of pages in and I am blown away. He just jumps into it right away and the simply put, the barbarian way is to “fight for the heart of your King!” coming from the story/legend of James Douglas, a close friend to Robert the Bruce (Braveheart). Forgetting everything and putting our faith out there, taking chances.

Erwin tells of the story of his daughter wanting to become rich and then just giving it all away to the poor and in need. She didn’t understand the concept of saving some, so she could invest and give more to the poor later on; she just wanted to give it all at once. Leaving all of herself out there at the age of 12, being “raw” and a barbarian. Erwin was trying to convince her and “civilize” her to the investing, but she was a barbarian for Christ.

Dictionary.com defines ‘barbarian’ as: 

1.	a person in a savage, primitive state; uncivilized person.

2.	a person without culture, refinement, or education; philistine.

 

I ask myself this: am I ready to be a savage? uncivilized? cultured and forgetting all that “religion” has taught me? dwelling in the possibilities of every day life? being someone different? Christ was a barbarian and died for us… WOW!

“FIGHT for the HEART of your KING!”

Dwell in Possibility

I just got this poster for my room with a quote from Emily Dickinson at the bottom “Dwell in Possibility”:

The thing about being in college there are always possibilities open for you to do something new, even when things seem desolate and empty and there is no way something can come out of nothing. Its something I’ve learned to grasp better as I am a “leader” on-campus in being a Seahawk Link and helping transition freshmen into college. We are required to be at certain freshmen events in which seems like is pointless to be at, but it is what I make of that and the possibilities in that event that make it meaningful.

If we keep in mind that we are serving God in the situation, then the possibilities are great, and through those possibilities God will be glorified and shine. Even if the possibility of complete boredom or failure are so clear to us, God looks to work through it and change that possibility to something small like making someone feel loved or making them smile for the first time that day making that possibility you decided to follow a blessing onto others. As we dwell in the possibility of the situation we love onto others like God loves us.

Dwell in Possibility of God breaking through you to do something amazing and supernatural.

“Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life – in order that I[Paul] may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor for nothing. But even if i am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I[Paul] am glad and rejoice with all of you.”
-Philippians 2:14-17