Actual Picture of what happens when Jesus comes and wrecks your life…..
If you believe in a God who is not fun, you should seriously consider switching your belief system. If your God is always stealing your joy, focusing on what you don’t do right, and demanding an incredible amount of obedience without giving you abundant life and freedom, then you aren’t following the true God, you are caught up in a unhealthy relationship with religion, and ultimately the devil. The God who has won my heart…well, his middle name is joy, and his last name, and his first name. Yep, Jesus’ real name is JOY JOY JOY. Who would have thought? Apparently, the translators of the Bible have been making this mistake for centuries. HAHA. But actually, God is really happy, and he is extremely happy when he is in loving communion with his children. He loves to dance and sing and laugh and shout and party. Jesus’ first miracle was at a party (John 2), and his last miracle will be to come and get his people and bring them to an eternal wedding celebration and feast with all of our angel friends and family. He is the God of celebration, love parties, freedom dances, and of adventure (Zeph 3:17, Psalm 149:3, Psalm 47:1).
Now I know what you are thinking, if God is so fun, then why is church so boring? Well, because a lot of his people are really boring. Plain and simple. And I don’t say this in a mean way; I don’t actually believe that anyone is truly boring in themselves. I do believe however that people exist within systems that stifle creativity and freedom, and thus, in attempt to be “someone” or make a name for themselves within that system, they adhere to rules and regulations and hide in prisons and boxes that cut them off from their destiny for Joy. In the church, for example, leaders have created boxes and systems around God based on their own religious ideas of what pleases him. God likes rigid structure, he loves when we sing hymns in monotone voices and recite memory verses. He apparently loves us more when we worship without passion, so we have talks with people about getting undignified, use christianese, like “you have zeal, but the Lord is going to give you wisdom,” which in essence is saying, “you are really passionate, but stop because people are getting offended.” So this is why some traditions adopted the demonistic theology that God doesn’t like dancing and hates rock n’ roll. What an annoying idea of God!
All I am saying is, maybe God is a lot different then we think he is. Maybe he can still hear us if we pray without closing our eyes and bowing our heads. Maybe he likes when we get crazy in his presence, run around and sing. Maybe he is passionate about the things we are passionate about. Maybe he sees the good in every musical artist, and sees a person’s heart rather than just the language they use. Maybe God likes to have a good laugh, and enjoys our humor. Maybe he wants to laugh with us, enjoy that concert with us, write that blog with us, be creative with us, live with us, be with us, and love us completely and without condition. Maybe God relates more to humanity than our religious structure could ever dream of. Maybe he is more human than we think…perhaps that is why we are his image…and perhaps that is why he showed himself fully expressed as a man, leaving the “far off God image” behind and coming close into every area and aspect of our lives. Maybe God is super freaking awesome!!!!
I am not saying that all churches are bad, or that everyone is religious. I love my home church so much, and believe that we are one of the most free in the whole wide world. Also, I find it an absolute tragedy that some give up on pursuing the God of true pleasure and freedom because some church service orchestrated by people who think “boring” and “holy” are the same thing made them fall asleep. Let’s dive into who God actually is. Let’s go straight to the source and pray diligently that he [or she for you feminists 🙂 ] would show us how fun and exciting the kingdom of God can be. Because lets be honest, every human knows deep down in their heart that earthly pleasure, self seeking, money, sex, drunkenness, party drama, can only satisfy for a little while. It leads to a big fat hole in the heart; I have seen it time and time again. The party nature of God, however, leads to everlasting joy, a joy that lasts through the trial and sustains through every part of life. God wants to be our source of fun in every area, so lets ditch the religion, learn from the author of life how to live ours, and party with the one who has been the fountain of satisfaction and happiness since time began. Woot Woot fam, Woot Woot.
Abundant Living 