Racing Death
An excerpt
from ‘Racing Death, A Radical Pursuit’ coming soon.
It is radical to choose death in
pursuit of life. Yet that death was what will provide us with life. Are you
confused yet? It’s all part of the mystery. This mystery people have tried to
prove and disprove for a long time now. It is one of those mysteries in life
that each person needs to explore on their own and in their own way. The
mystery is rewarding and it will provide you with great direction in your life
and on your own radical journey. Mysteries kind of invite us to solve them;
they invite us to figure them out. This mystery of faith however is one to be
lived, to believe it and walk it out is to receive the reward and abundant
benefits of the death that began the mystery. The part that will be solved
comes after that earthly death we will all encounter. For myself I choose to be
radical in how I pursue the mystery and it has been more than worthwhile.
The appetite for the path and our own
nature to pursue this mystery is why it is a radical pursuit. We can all
partake in this radical way of living, being, and chasing the death we deserve.
In relationship with God there are unique and cool ways He comes into life.
Activities, places, and messages which are unique to our nature that God called
us into as a means to connect will be found as we journey. God wanted and still
wants us to live with extreme energy and pronounced gusto. He has always known
what we need, how our needs are tied into our nature and how we can best tap into
these. We are more of a mystery to ourselves than we are to God. The mystery
defines life designed by the death that allows us to explore ultimate
experience with the Creator. It truly is a radical pursuit because we are
connecting with everything in our universe as that energy is us.
What is it that creates the faith
required for me and you to pursue this path, this relationship? Well simply put
it is faith that drives the radical pursuit. Faith in the unseen and unproven
by scientific standards of today; this faith comes from what I have seen and
experienced in my life. (And continue to experience.) A big part of this faith
is to question it, put it to the test! I don’t blindly follow a doctrine or a
law for the sake of being right or for the belief I am better than those who
don’t. Conversely I put this faith to the test, I question it, and I ponder it
and full on explore it. I create my own scientific experiments to pursue this
faith relationship with God.
This is what I have discovered
through my experiments in faith. God pursues us much harder than we can pursue
Him. I have experienced the grace, love, guidance, abundance, peace and joy of
God in all areas of my life. God has touched and created in my life in ways
that I never could have created on my own. My life has become much more stable,
rewarding, fulfilling and filled with goodness since my energy has been
directed into my radical pursuit.
This is not an easy path to pursue.
It is even more difficult to be radical about it. The Christian life is
difficult and it can sometimes seem impossible. By that I mean in our society
which is dictated in many ways by a non-Christian slant and attitude towards
life it is tempting to be anything but Christian. I struggle daily with the
path I have chosen to pursue. I have to admit some days I totally fail to
achieve my goals set out on this path. I have to make a mental commitment to
pursue the path and follow what the path requires. And I have to have deep
faith in Gods truth and His absolute love for me. As I mentioned previously I
have experienced Gods goodness on so many different levels of my life. It is an
exciting feeling to experience the powers of the Holy Spirit moving through me
and providing for me, Understanding how God is actually moving through the
Spirit in my physical space and time still blows my mind. Feeling the Spirit
create energy in me that then moves out into fields of action in my daily
radical pursuit is phenomenal. Experiencing a moment of clarity when God comes
into me in an experience, interaction or in the silent space in my heart still
stops me in my tracks. Radical doesn’t have to mean rebellion or rebellious, it
can actually be freeing and building.
