The Chasm

Well it's been a while,so I figured it was time to pick my brain again and write again.
  November was a lot of fun, and though I could be tempted to focus on all the festivities of Thanksgiving, I wont talk about that. Nor will I talk about the life-changing-phenomenon that is Skyrim. However I will mention something very special that happened on the Eighteenth. My brothers and I were inspired by the character from 'Parks and Recreation', Ron Swanson, to start an annual "Steak Night". So we saved up our money and went out to Pappa Bros. Steak House. All that you need to know about that night is this:
1.) We Hill boys clean up pretty nice.
2.) Many Cows were harmed in the making of that dinner.
3.) The most important ingredient in Mac & Cheese is Crab Meat.
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For those of you who know me well, you're probably tired of hearing stories about my dreams. However, I have been having a lot of dreams lately that have been intensive in nature. They leave me with a feeling of an incomplete task. For instance in one dream the setting was that I was supposed to meet someone very important in the New England area. Now in this dream I had the ability that whenever I jumped up I could glide,and let the wind carry me. So I proceeded to use my new-found super power as a means of free transportation.Everything was going fine until I got somewhere around Kansas(Don't ask me why I would have flow over 800 miles in the wrong direction) and I simply couldn't fly anymore. So I missed my opportunity to meet with the person, and I woke up feeling disappointed.
  More recently I had a dream that I was leading some sort of a group road trip. I had taken my group to Indianapolis(I think) to do....touristy stuff, I guess.Anyway we were there and I had something really important that I needed to do with the group. However in my dream I was distracted by the fact that a girl who had come with us (Whom I was very interested in) was being flirted with by one of my friends. Well I guess time passed and I eventually remembered that there was still something that we needed to go do. But at the pivotal moment when I finally rounded everyone together some sort of catastrophe happened. The city-scape and earth started to curve upward into the air almost like a tidal wave. So the remaining time spent in dream world was simply focused on running for dear life while trying to get my group to safety. I'm not really sure what happened, what I am sure of is it left me thinking.

I wanted to analyze where this mentality of in-completion comes from. Initially I know where the surface-level of is coming from. I'll be leaving my GOBC staff position soon,and I'm still not sure where I'm going next. This has had me worried a little bit, I can understand that. But I think it goes deeper than that really. Everywhere I look in life in seems Satan is on the front-lines of the battlefield telling us we're incomplete.
   In the worldly perspective I see this everyday. Advertisements, from the moment I wake up till I go to bed, telling me I can be better, smarter, faster, richer, more appealing as long as I buy what they tell me to buy. As long as I do what they tell me to do. In essence giving me a life-time of options that might one day make me acceptable.
  I see this reflected also in my Christian walk. Somewhere along the path, far-removed from any church pew or late-night bible study at a coffee shop, I trade in the grace-filled, freedom-giving gospel for a contract built on stipulations and clauses. I start focusing on all the things that I could do void that contract. I start focusing on sin, giving it so much weight in my life. And then once I do screw up it leaves me feeling shallow and unworthy.
 It's like we're standing dismayed before a great Chasm, knowing our minds we'll never be able to cross it.
But that's not truth. The truth is we have been freed. We get so fooled by Satan, thinking that we have to fix ourselves again before we can be accepted. But Salvation is an Adverb! We are being renewed daily by the who is seated on the throne. If you don't believe me go ahead and check out Revelation 21:1-4. Beautiful!
 Bothers, Sisters take joy for we are being made new.