Ok, The Book of Eli, this is absolutely my favourite film at the moment. If I come away from a film and can think about nothing else but reading my Bible then it hits the top-list. This is actually the first film that has made me do that but it’s fantastically inspiring start to finish. Very raw, very gritty, very kick-ass. Love it.
Right; Facebook.
My Facebook account has gone absolutely renegade this week and I can’t figure out how on earth to fix it. This is baso what’s wrong: whatever I action I make; status update, wall post, change profile information, accept or ignore a group invite or whatever – it saves, but then reverts straight back to how it was before. So every time I check it, it has gone back in time to a previous days setting.
It’s weird as. I swear, I feel like Bill Murray waking up in Groundhog day every time I log in to check my messages.
But this pales into insignificance next to some of the stuff that God has been doing this week.
Aight, so it’s freshers week here in Sheffield…well, in the UK I guess. thousands of new students flooding in from all over. So we’ve been out on the street quite a bit recently “Lovin’ Freshers” and welcoming them to Sheffield. There’s a couple of well cool testimonies of how things that God has been doing this week but I really wanna talk about something that happened last night.
A few of us made our way down to West Street – for those outside of Sheffield, that’s kind of the street in our city where all the bars and clubs are and all students pile down there in the thousands with the sole (soul?) intention of having a good time, meeting people and breaking commandments. So we went down to get some food and a couple of us ended up standing on the street just praying for the street as we saw people getting absolutely hammered. Quickly we resolved to spend the night out in Sheffield city center to just be led by God and see if there is anyone He wants us to talk to. So we went back up to Crookes to eat, grab some warm clothing and a couple of Bibles to give away and we headed straight back down town.
Lesson #1 – in a city center full of a few thousand people; 2 Bibles is nowhere near enough.
The three of us (myself, Rick and Ben) prayed like mad on the way down and ended up staying for about 3 hours and met some incredible people. Not really knowing where we were being led we ended up buying a few creates of water to carry round and give to people as they stumbled about the streets. The 2 Bibles we had went very quickly and I was able to scribble some contact details in the cover of one of them (praying the dude will phone…or at least that he reads the Bible when he wakes up and finds it in his back pocket).
The whole of last night is a feature length blog and I could talk forever about different things that happened, the people we met and some of the places fairly dark places we found ourselves in; which, thinking back a couple or three years were perhaps strangely familiar to some of our previous lives (if you want to hear about it, let’s do coffee next week, for reals).
But really, the amazing thing about last night was that we ended up down there because we felt prompted. The slightly more amazing thing is that we ended up down there and hadn’t a clue why we were there or what we were going to do. The more amazing thing still is that God guided our steps and just when it looked like it pointless for us to be there, things started to happen.
The Bible says:
Your word is a lamp to my feet,
and a light to my path- Psalm 119:105
The amazing thing about this verse, or rather the thing that I always missed about this verse is the fact that sometimes the lamp to our feet means we really only see the next step – like going down into town with nothing. But you follow anyway and He guides the next step and you follow that.
God knows the whole path and He’s got it all under control. It just requires us to be willing enough for Him to lead us and we’re willing enough to give ourselves completely over to His will, He will use us.
As Christians we have the most incredible honour of being chosen to be part of God’s plan and getting to play a role in that.
ok, it’s very late and I’m too tired to read this back to see if it makes sense.
