Stillness at Pepperdine

I find myself in the beautiful Malibu, California at Pepperdine University for the Pepperdine lectures.  I speak on Friday on one of my favorite axioms or Spencerisms, “the Church is the Hospital for soul sick people”…at least it should be.  Church isn’t, nor was it ever supposed to be a country club or place we come to pretend we have it all together.  “Church” was always intended to be the place for messed up folk who need Jesus to change them from the inside out.

For me personally, I am not here to listen to other lectures.  I am excited to present, but I am far more interested in what God has to say…to me.  Psalm 46:10 says to Be still, and know that I (He) is God.  I am practicing being still.  That may seem strange to some of you, but “stillness” is not something I am good at; and probably some of you as well.  As a new friend from Australia so aptly pointed out yesterday, we Americans are so busy…so interested in accomplishing the next thing…making something happen.  I think he’s right…Guilty as charged…we are so busy I think some of us (being nice in not making an over-generalization) are so busy, we just miss God coming and going.  So, I am here to listen.  To be still.  To read, and pray, and seek, and wait on God.  More later.