As I drove home from Fort Collins last night, I was convicted to send out an invitation.  I invite you to listen to this song and to consider the lyrics.

A Few of the Lyrics:

“I’ve heard the accusation and I’ve heard the propaganda.  I’ve heard the lies they whispered to my soul.  I have been forsaken and I’ll always be forgotten.  No matter what I do, it’s not enough.”

“I am your beloved, you have bought me with your blood.  On your hand you’ve written out my name.”

“The One who knows me best … is the one who loves me most.”

These words came into my heart like a flood.

They are the words for Freedom and Truth from the only One who can offer them … for Jesus did not just make an entrance into Jerusalem, He finished His mission.

And He gives us an Invitation that goes beyond all we can fathom.

Matthew 4 19 “Come, follow me,” 

That invitation can change eternity.  It is the only thing that can save us and get us to a place of peace and rest.  It is our only hope to even have hope.

And we get to respond.  We get to be born into an eternal kingdom.  We get to be born again.

Our response to this is the only action in our life that means anything.  My response, when put into the corner, wants to run and hide.  I am not worthy to follow.

But David’s response is how I choose to respond:

Psalm 139 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.

Not long after declaring Himself King, Jesus was brutally executed on a cross of wood.

He was betrayed and abandoned, He was mocked and tortured, and His clothes were gambled over by His captors.  And yet, there was no victory for the enemy.  The curtain of the temple was torn from top to bottom and He rose from death itself.

In the face of all the ugliness that we could conjure, He rose to defeat our greatest enemy–ourselves.

And He invites us to “get real”.  He invites us to stand up and be accountable for who we truly are:  broken, unreliable, weak.

As I play these words out this morning, they convict me all the more … I accept His Invitation.

And I encourage you to do the same.

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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Coach J