New wave

There are many good things coming on the horizon. I can't quite understand, but then again who can really know God's ways - even in hindsight, as to how things can still be good and go well all the while this world gets worse and worse. Speaking of course to the deplorable gutting of morality and dismissal of truth, I find that the planet, this world, still is something to enjoy. It's that tension that John Piper talks about when practicing Christian hedonism, but I always just want to go home to heaven so I don't have to hurt, or pay taxes, or deal with cavities.

Very interesting, as all of this culminates and mulls over in my head. I'm seeing old become new, and new happening fresh.

I'm happy for Andrew and Audrey getting married soon, as well as Scrib and Kassie, Chaz and Heather, Mark and Jessica, and I'm sure a slew of others. This next page of weddings will be a good celebration. And more babies will be a delight. 

Slowly but surely the church is settling in terms of family and establishment. I hope that with it comes a new conviction to the authority of Scripture individually and corporately. I hope that with these new phases of life, deeper, stronger cravings for the Word of God not only transforms our spiritual walk, but sets apart our worldview to something better, something holy. Then we can abandon humanism and liberalism (more than mere politics, mind you) and fully cling on to biblical principles that radically drive our day to day, step by step.

I'm praying for a reformation. A storm, a viral contagion that shows people not only what they believe, but why they believe it. I'm praying for a new passion for holiness and a longing for evangelism. A thrust of good will and hope, and a burden for the enemies of the cross. I'm praying for God to deliver me from my vices, and false ideas of incompleteness during this season of life. To have a sense of togetherness, even though I wait and pray still for God to advance my life into marriage and fatherhood. I pray that I don't lose sight of why I'm doing things the way I am now, for the chief end to glorify God, and serve people. And I want to admit when I'm wrong, and depart from flawed ways of thinking.

I just desire to see radical change. Break the norm, Carpe diem! Soli Deo Gloria