Our God

A couple of weeks to go, I had the privilege to go to a Chris Tomlin/Louie Giglio concert at ASU. It was a very refreshing night and I learned quite a bit. It was amazing to see so many people worshipping God corporately on a state college campus. It was really good to be encouraged in the Lord and have a night set apart for worshipping God. One song that we sang was Chris Tomlin's Our God.

I love this song and recommend that you look it up. This past friday I got to go to the detention center with some of my old friends from Bible Church and Crystal Hill. It was different than any other time I had been. Most of the members from the band Across the Valley were there playing and Michael Friesen encouraged the kids there to stand/clap/ get into the music. Most of the kids know what we want to hear and will try to give us the right answers so it can be difficult to know whether they are genuine or not. Our job isn't to judge whether they are or not. We are just supposed to love them and share the message with them.

Anyway that night we played the same song that I had heard at the concert; Our God. The kids stood up, danced, clapped, and played beats on the desk. Now I don't know if those kids believed and I know for sure that not all of them were. But that didn't matter. Whether they meant to or not, God was glorified. Music was made and it was pleasing to God. I worshipped well that night. I was filled with both sorrow for my sin and joy for God's grace and mercy to me. I worshipped just as well sitting in a detention center with kids who didn't know what it meant to follow Christ as I did sitting in a gym filled with Christians singing praises to God. Why? Because God was glorified. And we had the opportunity to share the gospel. It truly is amazing.

So in my profile I have mentioned that I am a graphic design major, but I haven't really said much about it or shown very much of my work. I really like my major and in future posts I will post some of my work and comment on them. Currently I am working on a pretty big side project. This idea came to me about a week ago and since it is spring break I have really been able to work on it. I will keep you posted on this project as well.