*refraction* (aka entree numero uno)

I was thinking about these lyrics with my buddy Ben one day... and All these cool thoughts came up... so ya. We just kinda typed what God had revealed to us till we had to stop. Lyrics from Hosanna:

heal my heart and make it clean
open up my eyes to the things unseen
show me how to love like You have loved me
break my heart for what breaks Yours
everything I am for Your kingdom’s cause
as I walk from earth into eternity

As we were thinking about the words, "Heal my heart and make it clean..." and a really cool story came to mind: A friend of mine was out filling up his dog's water dish and he noticed it was dirty. As he was filling the water dish with clean water, he noticed how all the clean water kept flowing and kept pushing all the dirty and unclean water out of the water dish... untill all that was left was pure, clean water. How cool would it be to live in such a way that your "water dish" or life is constantly getting filled so that it can't become dirty with any bad water? We came to the conclusion that ONLY if the Holy Spirit is the water hose constantly pouring into us, our lives will be clean like the water dish.

"Open up my eyes to the things unseen..." But how do we live on constant dependance on the Holy Spirit and see what He sees? By letting go of all that we are, our selfish wants, and making ourselves totally dependent on His voice at all times. As we begin to die to ourselves, the Holy Spirit will begin to open our eyes to what Jesus sees. It's like a crack addict. They start off enjoying where the crack takes them, how it moves them. Eventually, they need it more and more, to the point where it controls them, their every action, their every moment of their lives. As we let go out of ourselves, release our "right" to be right, and tune our frequency to the Holy Spirit's channel and let Him take control (or get high on Him), we will begin seeing what he sees or what he reveals to us.

In "The Green Letters", a theology book I've been reading based on spiritual growth, Miles Stanford writes that spiritual growth always starts with hunger. But how do we become hungry? How do we get to know God so well that we can't live without Him? We need to get so used to the Lord that we are broken without Him. We need to so pure and filled with the Holy Spirit that anything without God is painful to us. Just like the crack addict, If they don't have their daily dosage... well, we all know what happens to them.

"break my heart for what breaks Yours"... as we become a *refraction* (look it up - it's a fantastic word that is so perfect for our walks) of Christ, we will take on His heart so His desires become our desires, His word becomes our word, and whatever pains Him will pain us, as His heart changes ours. This ties in with the Holy Spirit as our water hose. :)

"everything I am for Your kingdom’s cause". Most people in life don't have a purpose, or a cause. As believers we do, and we should seize onto our only purpose in this earth, which is to hear and obey God's voice and walk out what He tells us. That is the ultimate purpose, the highest calling, the purpose driven life: hearing God's word and refracting Him on the earth. Getting to know Jesus, and making Him known.

"as I walk from earth into eternity"........ pretty self explanitory.