God even speaks to knuckleheads!!

This is really funny.

First, Sunday was so sweet! The word from Pastor Tony was right on time, then the baptisms ((from 15 people, to 17 , then 25, then 30 then 35! So cool.)). But the ministry service at 6 was the icing on the angel-food cake. So beautiful. God is so real, so close, so awesome.

And so we were just worshipping and I was really aware of what I want to let God do through me, and what I actually let God do through me, and you know feeling kinda humble, kinda weak, I guess just trying to be honest in God's presence. And I told God that "I am just such a knucklehead," and I think he first said, "Well, I have an opening for a knucklehead." And you know how people always say they felt God hug them, like Che Che Cruz (who colored SILVER) always says, or people say they felt him give them a holy kiss, or hold their hand . . . well I felt him "give me five" 'slap, slap' and I turned to Cheryl and shook her out of her worship and told her that I told God that I was a knucklehead and I think he just said 'Well I have an opening for a knucklehead,' and it was so weird that I had to ask her if she thought that it was really God, and she looked directly at me and so seriously said, "D E F I N I T E L Y !!!!" We laughed so hard.

God told us one day that He speaks to us the way we speak to others. He obviously uses our language, but he even uses our vocabulary and jargon sometimes. I have a friend, Ace Cruz (Che Che's sister and the one who drew SILVER) and God speaks to her sometimes in English and sometimes in Cantonese. Lately she said he's speaking more in Cantonese to her. Cool!

God speaks ALL THE TIME. He's got something to say for every moment of the day. He told me last night that George Lucas copied parts of The Battle Of Britain to make Star Wars, and he told my wife the other day not to put so much chilli powder in the fried rice (She stopped, said, That's not God! God won't talk to me about chilli powder!!, and went ahead and put the 3rd spoonful into the rice but sure enough .... it was new powder from India that we didn't use yet and it was about twice as strong as usual chilli powder and that 3rd spoon made the rice so awful we had to throw it all away..... God speaks to us about EVERYTHING, ALL THE TIME! It's so excellent. Jesus, why are you so cool?

I have a Muslim friend (well, ex-Muslim because he eventually got saved) but years before he did, he was riding his motorcycle really fast on a highway in Malaysia where he grew up, and he turned the corner and the whole road was GONE, it was under construction with no warning and he was going so fast he really thought he was going to DIE....but he heard a voice in his heart that called him 'son' and told him he was going to be alright, and to just put on the brakes but squeeze slowly, slowly, slowly . . . he stopped just before hitting all the road equipment.

A few months ago God said something like "How can people make doctrines about me when they don't even know me?" he showed me that he is LOVE and if you don't love with the Love from HIM, not selfish human love, but the Love from God himself, then you can't understand God enough to make any broad rules about what he does and does not do. I think God WANTS to be understood: Hezekiah wrote in Proverbs that "It is God's glory to hide things, but a King's glory to search them out." I think God is simple, even though he's so awesome. He's understandable, but not with the human faculties of logic and prejudice, only with HIS Spirit in us will we understand Him, thankfully that is exactly what he gave us! Thank you Jesus!