21“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ 23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’
I’ve gone back and forth with his verse for a long time. On a first time read it freaks you out a little huh? Even after many reads it still freaked me out. Well not long ago I was reading through Matthew and I came across this verse. As I read it…it clicked. It’s not about living a life of ministry in fear, wondering if you were going to get tossed out at the end. It’s about KNOWING and LIVING out the will of God in your life. You see, everything Jesus references in this passage is all works, “prophesy”, “drive out”, “perform”. What I believe Jesus is saying is that it’s not about DOING a bunch a things and hoping they are the right things. It’s about KNOWING one thing (God’s will) and going 100% for that. In my own life I apply it like this.
“That’s great Pastor. You went out and sang songs for people, said some nice words to make folks feel good about themselves, you even helped them along in their walk, BUT that’s not God’s will for your life. You decided on your own how your going to live out your life and since you chose not to know The Father and the abundabce He has for you in your life of ministry, I choose not to know you, AWAY FROM ME!!”
This is a very timely light bulb for me. I don’t know about you, but I’m choosing to ask God what He wants me to do, not play it out how I want it to look.
On Sundays I’m going to start posting You Tube vids of some of my favorite music selections. This week…
The Four Seasons, Dec. 1963 (Oh what a Night)
The talent in this group is ridiculous. First you’ve got Frankie Valli as your front man, but then to see the talent not only vocally but instrumentally as well, within the rest of the group…wow. Check out the bass riff while finishing his vocal line @ 1:43.
Things are crazy right now. I’m back and forth from Charleston to Charlotte every few days trying to get our life started there as well as trying to close down life here. I apologize for the lack of post…trust me I have plenty to talk about with the move and everything but not the time to sit down and formulate thoughts to writings. Here’s some bullet points:
-still trying to firm up a house in Charlotte…please Pray this will happen soon
-my mom gets married this week after being single for 13 yrs!! He is an amazing man of God
-I went and observed worship services at Mosaic Charlotte this past Sunday and WOW. The current and potential talent gets me excited to get in there and start leading and Pastoring!!
-Naeem Fazal is an amazing friend and I’m so pumped to support the mission God has placed in Him for Mosaic Charlotte
I want to do some blog link swapping. I’m sure there are some super cool folks reading my blog and I’d love to know it. If you are a reader here introduce yourself to me. Tell me what you do and give me your blog link. When I link you, I’ll comment on your blog that I did so, and you can return the love.
The past couple of days the fam and I went up to Charlotte to hone in a a place to live. My wife and I have never been huge fans of a mini-van but we rented one to make the trip easier with the kids. Guys…this van was AWESOME! The whole time Carrie and I were figuring out financially how we could buy one!!
The doors on the side opened and shut by the push of a button, it had SO much space inside, the drive was very smooth, it had an ipod hook up, and I felt like a family man and I liked that. Keep an eye out for the Davis Family because we might soon be pimping a sweet mini-van!
If you are in my immediate circle you might already know this news I’m about to share. For those of you who are not, I wanted to fill you in…
The past 6 years of my life I’ve been on staff at Seacoast Church. In those six years I have:
-had great successes
-had really great failures
-been molded by great leaders
-met my wife
-met my best friends
-shared stages with, what I consider, some of the best
-found my calling
This list could go on for many blogs but I’ll keep it to this one. God is moving my family and I out of Charleston and Seacoast and we are joining up with Naeem Fazal at Mosaic Church in Charlotte, NC. I’ll be taking the Worship Pastor position there and I am SO excited about what God is going to do through that body of believers. To any of my Seacoast family…we love you. We’ll miss you more than you’ll ever know.
My last service with Seacoast will be First Wednesday on June 4th. Make sure you are there, I’d love to worship with you all one last time.
Please keep up with all the updates at ORP (one red pilot) of our move and transition to Charlotte.
