Sometimes a glimpse is all you need

The past four and half months have been the most difficult and painful days of my life. As much as it hurts to admit,  I have been plagued with uncertainty and fear.  It feels like a famine in my soul. This week I met someone whose testimony really spoke to me and my fears for the future. I met Isaiah, the prophet. In Isaiah 6 we find the prophet troubled, fearful, and uncertain, wondering what the future holds for him and his people. King Uzziah had just died after reigning in Judah for the last fifty-two years. Think about it, fifty-two years under one leader. In my short life, the United States has already seen five presidents pass through the White House. We don't grasp the type of steadfast leadership that Uzziah had and that Isaiah had grown accustomed to. The majority of Uzziah's reign was characterized by times of great blessing and prosperity for God's people. When the king died, Isaiah was fearful of who would take his place on the throne and of what the future would hold for Judah. As Isaiah was worrying about the earthly king, he was given a vision of the One True King. Isaiah sees that, if God is on His eternal heavenly throne, there is no need to worry about who sits on a temporal earthly throne. Isaiah receives just what he needs--a glimpse of the Holy and Sovereign God. This is also what we need when uncertainty and fear fill our hearts and minds. We need to remember that God is on the throne.

I love Jesus, I just don't talk about Him

Over the past couple of months, Kathryn and I have been watching Lost. We are currently in the fourth of five seasons and are quite addicted.  Seriously addicted. This addiction has caused a mild obsession and this obsession has caused frequent Lost jargon to come from my lips. It almost scares me how much I talk about it. Ok, I am going slightly overboard describing my Lost infatuation to stress that it is easy to talk about what you love. I am convinced there is nothing easier--it is like breathing. If that is true, why is it that so many professing Christians say that they love Christ, yet never speak of Him?

Why start a blog?

People occasionally ask me, “So Colby, what exactly is it that you do all day?” This is an interesting question to pose to a full-time youth and college pastor, after all. The inquirer probably thinks that all I do is read books, play guitar, and drink coffee with people. Come to think of it, that is pretty much all I do. But seriously... All jokes aside, my life has one sole purpose: to make disciples of Jesus Christ. With this blog, I want to show you how that purpose is driving everything else in my life. I want to show you how I strive to meet my goal of glorifying Christ in all that I do.

“So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” 

-1 Corinthians 10:31