The Haircut

Ya know, I never knew how much a haircut related to our salvation. For quite some time now I have had a huge head or hair and a beard. Well...just a few minutes ago, I shaved that beard off. And ya wanna know what? I felt so liberated! The funny thing is that I didn't feel suppressed or burdened by it. In so many ways, before our salvation through Christ Jesus, we feel the same way. We don't really know anything is wrong until we feel convicted and it's fixed. It is only in hindsight that we see how bad off were truly were. It is only after the chains of sin have been lifted do we know how brought down by the enemy we really were. 

The sad thing about hair is that it grows back, and if we are not careful, it will get out of control. In the same way, if we are not in relationship with our Savior, our sins, our struggles will come back and we will once again be overcome by them. However, there is HOPE!

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Our God is greater
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Our God is stronger
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God you are higher than any other
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Our God is Healer
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Awesome in power
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Our God, Our God
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and if our God is for us
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then who could ever stop us
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and if our God is with us
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then what could stand against

This is the chorus to "Our God" by Chris Tomlin off of the Awakening cd by Passion released earlier this year. For some, because they cannot see God, they do not believe, or say that God is dead. Well to them I say, "My God's not dead, He's surely alive and He's living on the inside, roaring like a LION!" (1) 

God is perfect, mighty to save, a rock and holy. Francis Chan puts it this way:

"We don't get to decide who God is. 'God said to Moses, "I am who I am' (Ex. 3:14). We don't get to change that. To say that God is holy is to say that He is set apart, distinct from us. And because of His set apart-ness, there is no way we can ever fathom all of who He is. To the Jews, saying something three times demonstrated its perfection, so to cal God 'Holy, Holy, Holy' is to say that He is perfectly set apart, with nothing and no one to compare Him to. That is what it means to be 'Holy.' His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can't contain Him. Isn't is a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?" (2)

There is nothing too big for God, so when we fall, when we let our hair grow more than it probably should, we run to God (the barber) who shapes us and molds us into the person He has for us. We are people with a purpose. God has a plan for me and for you and He is using us to share His love to all people that He may be glorified. 

(1) Like A Lion by David Crowder* Band off of Awakening by Passion
(2) Francis Chan. Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God. Denver: David C. Cook, 2008, pg. 31