Ho...sa....nn....a?

Easter is almost here! Possibly one of my more favorite holidays because of:

1: Chocolate... nuff said

2: Easter Bunny... oh he's real alright...

3: MORE CHOCOLATE!!!!!

Okay, so besides the fact that you receive tons of chocolate on Easter, that's not the only cool reason to celebrate it. It's a time of happiness and excitement because our Lord and Savior rose from the grave... YES I SAID IT! rose from the grave!

So the question begs to be asked: will we/have we rise/risen "from the grave?" Have we risen out of the ashes and breathed in the breath of life? The breath that our God, greater and higher than any other, healer, creator, friend so lovingly gave us? The logical answer is yes... but sometimes logic fails when it comes to God. He does some absolutely mind-boggling things that we, human beings, can/will never understand this side of eternity.

...Easter. A time that many celebrate with joy.. but not all Easters have been that way. About this time 2,000 years ago, Jesus Christ was just days, hours away from being betrayed, tried, beaten, being crucified and mocked for all to see..... ALL FOR US!!!

Just days before, He, Jesus, rode into Jerusalem for the Passover. I love how it is called "The Triumphal Entry." He rode in with everyone shouting at the top of their lungs "HOSANNA IN THE HIGHEST!!".... little did they know that one week later they would be shouting "CRUCIFY HIM!"

Hosanna is such a great word. I love the song "Hosanna" by Hillsong United. Such a great and powerful song. My favorite line from the song is:

"I see a generation, rising up to take their place, with selfless faith."

This is us.... if we engulf ourselves with the Holy Spirit. If not, we will catch that so cliched "spiritual high" for oh... say, a month. Then.... boom. Right back where we started. Just like the mob that screamed Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna in the Highest! We will scream back "crucify Him" by the way that we(me included) deny Him through our lifestyle.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that the time is now! We must be the generation that rises up and becomes the tool that God has intended us to be for His use to lead every nation, tribe, and tongue to His name! We cannot let ourselves be pulled back into the world after we have gotten a glimpse of His eternal glory! We must be in the world, but not of the world. We must rise up to take OUR place through God with selfless faith. With a faith so powerful that it defies all possible logical explanations for the things that we do because of what God tells us to do.

F.R.I.E.N.D.S!! no not the t.v. show...

I can't believe its been over one month since i last blogged. But anyways, tonight I've just got a few things on my mind.

I love my friends.. ALL of them. But sometimes i get really sick of a few of them... especially the ones who never shut up about how good they are at something, or how good they look, or how many girls they can pick up, or how they try to impress everybody... it just gets really old.. really fast. And it's even worse when they act one way around me, my other friends, our minister and everybody else... and then when they get away.. (or so they think) from everybody.. it's completely fine to cut loose and say/do/participate in whatever the heck they want to because they have a "do-whatever-the-heck-i-want-to" attitude.

It gets even better when they go to church, participate in church activities, and even speak/"mentor" the younger kids in the church and when they get in their car to leave church, they take off their church mask and put it in their glove box until the next time they pull into the parking lot or whenever they come in contact with someone from church. Don't get me wrong, I'm guilty of it too. But I KNOW that i do it and i make a conscious effort to fix it. But me and God are working on that.

It just irritates the CRAP out of me and all people do is sit back and watch. I know, i know: "Hunter, why don't you say anything?" I'll answer it. I don't know whether i should lay it all out there for them or give them a hug and say it's gonna be alright.. you don't have to play two-face with me or God.. we love you for who you are.. you don't have to impress everybody.

Only thing i can think of is prayer. God works in weird (but good) ways. He puts things in front of us to test our faith... which, if you think about it, He already knows what's going to happen.... ah rabbit trail! But anyways, God's just showing me how NOT to be. And man am i glad that He got my attention a while ago.