The Soul Of My Feet

Well, we’ve moved on from Acts in our lectures and now we’ve begun to look at the letters Paul wrote during his missionary journeys. I have a real soft spot for Paul, I love his passion for his beliefs, and I love that he was just the most sinful person you could ever meet before he met Christ but then his whole life did an amazing turn around , fuelled by the Holy Spirit, he became an incredible servant of God. Also Stephen’s story touched me also, because he was so passionate right up until his death and he never gave in to the crowds and scoffers.

Today we looked at Paul’s letter to the Churches in Galatia and basically Paul was pretty upset because although they had apparently already received the Gospel of Jesus Christ, there were false teachers among them that were influencing them to continue to trust in the law instead of the message of Jesus Christ which was, Salvation through Grace alone. It made me think, well how does this apply today? Because it is not that much different. There’s a whole bunch of people out there continuing to trust in themselves and their own good works or good behaviour which tragically will not be enough when they stand before God. If we were to believe that 90% of our population are of the belief that they will go to Heaven because they are ‘good’ people, then the death and resurrection of Jesus, which there is credible evidence that it did indeed happen in history (AD33 approx), was absolutely pointless!!

Christ died to set us free from all of that stuff!

‘It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm then and do not let yourselves be burdened again by the yoke of slavery’ (Gal 5:1)

We finally were able to get into our little recording studio to record a bit more of the The Soul of My Feet. I think I’ve claimed it as my life theme song at the moment!

• The Soul of My Feet - 2nd recording 

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I am living in a wonderful place at the moment, life is absolutely wonderful. Sorry I wont ramble on for too long but I’m just loving college sooo much and everytime I sit down in the lecture room I just get this rush of absolute peace and contentment. And, well it’s wonderful. My biggest revelation today is that material stuff in this world is well, not important. I mean not important at all, it has absolutely no worth, meaningless, absolutely meaningless. It was one of the Apostle Pauls biggest preaching topics as he toured the middle east. You see many of the regions were creating things to worship, some were making lots of money making images for the people to worship and they didn’t like the fact that Paul was telling them to stop worshipping idols and start worshipping a true and living God. Can you imagine if we were told to stop building massive houses, to stop buying appliances we don’t need,  to stop buying into fashion trends that aren’t real, and to start believing in the stuff that truly matters, stuff that has MAJOR eternal importance. If only we could see how amazing Heaven will be, perhaps then we’d stop placing so much importance on showing off our stuff. The most important thing is how we use our stuff, is it for our own benefit as if we’ve somehow earnt it or do we share it with others, perhaps with people that don’t have much stuff at all….