Religion Finally Dies.............

"Dancing with my Father God in fields of grace
Theres a place that I lose myself within......theres a place that I find myself again.....
Theres a place where religion finally dies... theres a place where I lose my selfish pride...
thats dancing with my Father God in Fields of Grace.........
I love my father my father loves me, I dance for my father...my father sings over me!
and nothing, nothing can take that away from me. "

This is a song that has always moved me. It moves me when I worship to it and as I write it I realize how loaded it is. It has become so important lately for me to be "real" to understand what is genuine about others and to be genuine to myself and those around me.When we are being "real" we are losing ourselves(our pride, stuck on our desires, our wants and ways,our limited thinking and knolwedge) as this song says and finding that place where we are true- we are what we are- and we lay it before our creator- before everyone else- and we are okay with it.Theres a place where religion finally dies- where we are not bound by legalism and ritual because we have a faith that some say is too "easy." Yes, it is easy- Christ did the hard part for us so we can be dancing with our father God in fields of grace- we have freedom thatsurpasses understanding- we know a God that loves us and sings over us! SINGS OVER US- that stirs so much emotion in me- Think about how we watch our children sleep, taking in their sweetnees, watching them breathe...God sings over us- rejoices over our preciousness to Him!
Isaiah 62:5 As a young man marries a maiden, so will your sons marry you; as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you.
Donald Miller in his book, Blue Like Jazz writes, "I couldn't give myself to Christianity because it was a religion for the intellectually naive. In order to believe Christianity, you either had to reduce enormous theological absurdities into childrens stories or ignore them. For thousands of years big haired preachers have talked about the idea that we need to make a decision, to follow or reject Christ.they would offer these ideas as a sort of magical solutions to the dilema of life.I had always hated hearing about it because it seemed so entirely unfashionable ideas were pointing at something mystical and true.And perhaps, I was judging the idea, not by its merit, but by the fashinable or unfashionable delivery of the message."
When Jesus was preaching in Luke 4 the crowd goes from being amazed to furious with Him. So furious that Jesus had to leave....I beieve they were furious because Jesus wasn't what they expected..these were deeply religious people...and he wasn't "all about religion." He wasn't then and he isn't today. He decided to do ministry His way instead of their way- and you bet it was different and controversial- That is what I hope for my life- that I won't be bound by the conventianality of religion- that i would do things His way no matter how scary or crazy.If he wasn't convential then he probably won'tcall us to be conventional now. I know in my life if I feel a peaceful sense of being totally out of control, unsatisfied, and out of my comfort zone then I know my God is moving!