I write all that is below because I feel I should share a glimpse, and that is all it is, of what I have come home from. I share it with you not to make you jealous, but to create within you a longing for the things of God. We are too content. Thats what was revealed to me this morning at church, I called people to hunger, thirst, longing, to want to chase after Him, to see His words bear fruit. Read what God has said He will do, read what Jesus said about Himself and his kingdom and our authority, read it and then declare it. We are living with the bar set too low, we are far too satisfied and content with where we are and the tiny things we are asking for. How big is your God? I ask again, how big is your God? Sit under His waterfall, ask for Him to fill you so that you might be brimming, that you might be poured out to everyone you come into contact with. Stop being comfortable and satisfied. Divine discontent. I dare you to pray for it ;)

Sunday, February 04, 2007

Captivated by You
Captivated by You
May my life be one unbroken gaze
Fixed upon Your beauty
Fixed upon Your beauty
Fixed upon the beauty of your face

No other could ever
Be as beautiful
No other could ever
Steal my heart away
No other could ever
Be as beautiful
No other could ever
Steal my heart away.

I just can’t look away.

-Vicky Beeching (on my myspace)

Hehe, I am LOVING that song right now! so simple, so so beautiful *sigh* its my prayer Daddy.


So....watched the "Merchant of Venice" for the first time today. Once I got past the whole Shakespeare floweryness and the impressive costumes, and one has to see beyond the blatant anti-semetism that pervades a certain portion of the play, well...

...once I had got past all that, wow. It has become one of my top favorite plays of all time. What an incredible piece of writing that created that court scene. The Jew, who was actually wronged but one has to get past that as I first said cos its all incredibly provocative, was determined to have the bond that they had signed.

They were bound by law to give him his 'pound of flesh'- literally. They begged him for mercy, begged that he would see different but he continued to argue that he had made a bond before heaven and it was the law and he stood for the law:

" SHYLOCK (the Jew)
My deeds upon my head! I crave the law, The penalty and forfeit of my bond."

It is such an incredible picture, for one, of what it is like to be completely bound up by law, to be completely compelled to follow through and there be no room whatsoever for grace or mercy. In the end, he ends up being the one begging the guy he almost killed for mercy because of an awesome twist, but if you havent seen/read it, just for that scene, get it (http://www.william-shakespeare.info/act4-script-text-merchant-of-venice.htm). I have never ever see anything that so beautifully and incredibly portrays the parable that Jesus spoke of when He said about the king who wrote off thousands of pounds worth of debt to a servant who then went out and jailed his servant for owing him ten pounds.

Mercy mercy mercy. I think thats the theme of the day, sweet sweet mercy. We deserve nothing and yet we have everything, purely and utterly because we have been rescued, we have been made righteous, we have been shown exceeding mercy and grace. Oh that we would gain fresh revelation of that so that we might be compelled to show mercy in all situations without even passing thought. God, would we realise that we are no longer under law and the gravity of what that MEANS. God, that we would understand mercy and freely give as we have so freely received. Oh God forgive me for not walking in this even close to the level you deserve. I love you. Kill me more that you might be glorified through me, less of me, more of you.

posted by Claire at 10:57 PM

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