i should have seen it coming...

as a team,

we are working on the worship night -

Before the Throne.

i can't say really how the name came about...

well - i guess i can from my perspective.

haha

i made a list of things, just trying to find something that sounded right -

and i brought that list to a planning session,

and Austin said "i like this one".

and it was the only one that really stuck out at all...

so we kept it.

and i half-heartedly thought "oh, Before the Throne.  what a cool thing - we're coming before the throne of God to worship Him".

not a bad thought -

but i had no idea the gravity behind the image, the idea, the REALITY of coming before the throne of GOD.

and i was starting to feel very half-hearted about the whole idea.

not feeling a lot of inspiration.

so i was just praying for some inspiration, for some new life breathed into it -

and then...

the other day my friend Breann sent me a text (not really knowing a lot about this worship night we're planning being that she is approx 1 million miles away) and said that her and her discipler are doing this thing together where they are reading Revelation 4 10x for 10 days.

and asked if i'd want to do it too.

well, sure!  why not?

i like the Bible.

:)

well (and i will admit that i am not an expert on the Bible and i have not read all the way through Revelation before, so i'm not SUPER familiar with it) imagine my surprise when i opened up the bible this morning on the bus and saw the title of the passage...

"Throne of Heaven".

hmmmm...

and as i read - well, its just the picture of the THRONEROOM.

in all of its incredible, jaw-dropping glory.

and i was floored.

i didn't know that God picked the name.

i didn't know that i was going to read this passage 10x a day for 10 days.

i didn't KNOW what i was getting into...

and i have no idea where He is going with it all.

but what i do know now...is that there is absolutely nothing half-hearted or "kind of" exciting about the throneroom of God.

the imagery alone is UNBELIEVABLE.

the place where the sea is glass,

where God appears like the crystalline brightness of jasper and the fiery sardius,

where it all comes together,

the place where the Spirit is complete,

the place where utter awe of God leads to worship that NEVER STOPS,

the place where the people that have overcome on the earth through God's power, sit around Him and FALL on their faces,

throwing down their crowns because GOD is the one who is WORTHY.

we just have to walk through that open door.

PRAISE THE LORD that we are able to walk through that open door.

i have no idea what God is doing,

and i don't know why i didn't see it coming.

why do we never see it coming?

when God puts something crazy in our minds,

and then shows up in a way only He can.

so i don't know what He's doing now -

but i am filled with an incredible new desire to be there when He does it.

pay attention to what He's doing,

to what He might be saying.

you just never know with Him.

;)

-ALIVE