Food for Thought...

This morning was one of the most incredible mornings of my life. No exaggeration. The Lord is so amazing and that in and of itself is a tremendous understatement. Can I just say that I claim to know nothing but Christ's death, burial and resurrection? Thanks.

As some of you may or may not know...periodically I have been taking 7-10 day trips to Indiana once a month to finish up the self titled LEVEL 3:16 album due to be released December 28th. This process looks like 12-14 hour days, each day, in the studio. We are writing and recording...well for me, as the DJ, I am doing a little bit of everything. My day can look like MPD for hours, blogging, fan pages, producing, conceptualizing shows, practicing my mixing and scratching for hours with some occasional writing and recording.

This trip has been no different than the trips before other than the intense pressure there is in this session being the final recording session before the work is finished!

BUT...this morning, I was able to encounter the Lord in our time together like no other time before. We were talking about some of the most recent headlines on CNN and it lead to a very obvious observation of this "human condition" we are all born with. We all were kind of grieved at the state of our society until a split second later our grief was turned into thankfulness at the very thought of our own ability to be in similar states apart from the Lord and the power of His changing work on the Cross.

Not only did this cause me to reflect on my process in coming to the Lord and surrendering my life to Him but it caused me to think about the cost of that very decision. I AM A PRISONER OF THE GOSPEL. What does that mean? And when was the last time I thought about the implications of that in my day to day life? Honestly, it has been a long time. I have since enjoyed and pursued the benefits of being a Christian. Not just the eternal benefits but the earthly ones as well. Not necessarily referring to "things" but, you know, the presence of God and the fruit of the Spirit. This in NO WAY has been "wrong" but I was reminded today that not only should I be thinking about what I can obtain from a personal relationship with the Father through Christ...but also what liberties I can forfeit because of my personal relationship with the Father through Christ. All so that people can be pointed to the goodness and glory of God through my thoughts, words, and actions.

Otherwise, why am I hear if my life is not "showing off the glory of God in every area..."?

Until my next heartbeat,

KB