Well, I took a trip. It was the only real vacation I have gotten to go on all year. Me and eight other crazy people piled in to a jam packed van and headed to Houston, Texas to take part in an amazing Hillsong Conference. Well, I must say, It was everything I hoped it would be, and more! It was overflowing with amazing, powerful…..no, it was REAL worship! Just genuine, passionate people there to love God, love people, and also set out to take over the world with God’s love.
Anyone that has ever been to a conference knows that they go there expecting to get this life change. I am completely guilty of it as well. We expect this power from heaven to change us from just from hearing a few songs sang and some random guys filling the auditorium with scripture. (I even got asked by people if my life was changed or if I felt changed…what is that about?)
This time around I told myself that I wasn’t going expect life change, I was just going to open my ears to what God wanted me to hear, and if what I heard changed me, so be it, if not…I love him anyway.
Well, I went through the conference, I had an amazing time…I worshipped God until I could speak. It was real and gut-wrenching. We were on the way home and I was sitting there just thinking about what they spoke about, loving people that need love, stop yourself from judging people just by first glance, help people, change the world….YOUR world with Christ’s love. I was truly floored that they said that we are ALL different in every way…the only thing every human has in common is the desire to be loved.
I got back in to civilization of my own life and I started to realize how much all of those words just played through my mind constantly, and I could not escape it. I was judging people as soon as I saw them. I couldn’t stop it. I felt so convicted and worthless as christian. This isn’t what God wants from me….
He wants me to love people, show compassion, fulfill a person’s desire of being loved. God wants that from everyone. If we did that….changing the world would be easy.
Something so simple and clean cut that was talked about all throughout this conference…hit me so incredibly hard that I still haven’t come close to recovering. I think about it every where I go, in everything I do.
I cannot escape it. I do not want to escape.
I have never been truly changed from a conference, maybe for a few weeks I’ll be changed from the hype, but that goes away, This conference shook me up and this will stay with me forever.
I will speak this for as long as I can breathe.
Love people like God loves you….you will change the world!
Jluc.
