You Are Lord of Brilliant Light

Today is Friday, and since I stayed home from school today I have a nice 4 day weekend ahead of me :] maybe my Dad will let me get m lisence finally.
Pardon me if I have spelling errors on this post, this computer at my Dad's house doesn't have spell check. Anyways, Friday means Matt's youth group is tonight. I really like going there :] I'm pretty excited about it, but until then I have nothing to do. So I figured I'd write something on here that inspires some change in everyone because God has been working on me in some specific areas. Those areas are:
1] Intolerance!
2] Music
2] Love for a brother
4] Prayer
I've noticed God pointing out different truths on these areas in the past couple weeks. But I'm gonna talk about the one that's stuck out after I read Be Intolerant by Ryan Dobson..

Do you know what Moral Relativism is? Well a good way to describe it is a person who believes that there are no absolutes. Maybe who believes there is no true wrong or right [what may be right to you could be wrong to another person]. Someone who doesn't believe in being intolerant, because we should accept everyone as they are. This person may not believe in God, may not believe there is only one way to heaven. But these people are often hypocritical, you can be who you want to be and do what you want to do and we will tolerate you because that's what you think is right... Until you murder someone.. Or until you rape someone. Those things aren't accepted because they're wrong...
The fact is it's a very unstable theory, it has no standing ground, nothing written in stone and can change with the course of society. Especially when it comes to God. Moral Relavists will not tolerate the idea of one belief and one God, after all how could there only be one way to heaven? That would make it hard to tolerate everyone elses religions cause wouldn't that make them... wrong. And wouldn't that be just terrible for anyone to have to be wrong.
The fact is intolerance is not a bad thing, it's not just a hard headed thing. In fact God is intolerant!
One thing Ryan Dobson pointed out to me that I liked is this. God is not like Santa Claus, He doesn't wink at the sin of the world. He doesn't let you sit on His knee and ask what all do you want, oh forget about giving me glory, you can have that affair on your wife because she just doesn't satisfy, afterall it's not that bad. No, God says That is wrong! But He does it out of Love, He does it because He wants to see you grow and have true happiness in Him.
There is alot more to say about this. The last thing I will talk about is an analogy in the book that helped me realize the seriousness of sin.

'On May 2002 , a towboat on the Arkansas River in Oklahoma accidently pushed a barge into a concrete bridge support. The bridge was where Interstate 40 crossed the river. At the impact, a third of the bridge collapsed.
The problem was that people on the interstate couldn't see that the bridge was out. Fisherman in the boats below watched in horror as car after car shot off the edge of the bridge at seventy miles an hour... So the fisherman Alton Wilhoit grabbed a flare gun from hs boat and ran up to the interstate, where another semi was headed for the bridge. Wilhoit fired the flare...
The driver slammed on the brakes. The wheels locked up and the trailer came to a stop with the truck's front wheels hanging over the ledge. The driver threw it into reverse and pulled away, effectively blocking the road warning the other drivers.
Fourteen people died that day... But how many more would've died is Alton Wilhoit hadn't done what it took to warn the people who were blindly headed toward their death?'

Think about is like this. The interstate the drivers are headed on are like the path to an eternal death, hey have no idea because they cannot see the end result of their decisions. The flare is like the warning in God's word, without it the people won't realize that the end of the bridge is collapsed and will die. Doesn't that change your thinking a bit?
It did for me...



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