Lets Express!

If there is one thing that I have learned about writing blogs, its the fact that I never know how to start out.  I always sit at the computer writing a sentence and then deleting it over and over again.  Usually I will get past that part of the blog and go on with the rest of it but tonight I don't have an opening sentence.  So, you get the paragraph that has no meaning what-so-ever.

This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend Winter Jam and I must say that if you have never been to Winter Jam you need to check it out.  Its basically 4 hours of straight worship with bands like David Crowder, Kutless, Newsboys, Newsong, Francesco Battistelli and Side Walk Prophets with speaker Tony Nolan.  Seriously, if you have enough money you should travel to the location that is nearest to you and worship with them!  It is awesome! 

Throughout the whole time it was going on, I had a few things that was racing through my mind.  One of which I will write about tonight and Lord willing will have the opportunity to write about the other sometime later this week.  One of the things that Winter Jam wants to install in people is an opportunity to be a servant in Christ by sponsoring a child that is under privileged compared to our standards.  I have seen this played out in many ways but one immediately came to mind.  When a Youth Pastor had sponsored a child for a year in the D.R. and the first week that I arrived there just so happened to be the week that he got the opportunity to meet him and spend the whole afternoon with him.  I wish words could describe but they just aren't enough.  After thinking about that memory of the D.R. I started to move my train of thought on the tracks of 1 John 3:17:

If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?

I couldn't help but to think of the opportunities that we have in America.  We are Blessed.  We have the opportunity to go out and get a pack of shirts to wear under another shirt while there is Children in the world who have to wait for the next clothes drive so they can have a shirt to cover up their bare skin.  I know that is a little extreme, but it is true.  You may think that I am just referring  poor countries but truth is, there is a lot of hurt and need in our own back yard of America.  Someone may not need materials or have a lack of money but they need someone to express Christ's love to them.  Can we honestly say that we express Christ's love through the way we live 24/7 with our family, relationship, friends and this is a BIG one but our enemies or anyone who has hurt us?  I know I haven't, and I will jump out on a limb that may break to say that you may not have either.  With that being said, lets express.  From here on out I am going to use "lets express" as a way to refer to show Christ's love.  With that being said..."LETS EXPRESS" and let our reflection be Christ in EVERYTHING that we do!

-JDB