A heat and light vision for student/20's

As young people we have, God willing, many years ahead of us! This is awesome! Our joy as students and 20's is to spend ourselves for what satisfies most. We want God! We echo the words of
David in psalm 27:

One thing I ask of the Lord
This will I seek
That I may dwell in the courts of the Lord all the days of my life
To gaze upon His beauty
And seek Him In his temple!

As people that have experienced the unmatched pleasure of knowing God, we are grateful. We don't deserve to know the one true God in this way. All of us have broken pasts that have dishonoured God. Yet, God's passion for his Being to be worshipped in our souls is greater than the corruption of our sin!

We believe that God became man, the man Jesus. He broke into human history and, through a life of humility, love, compassion and truth, satisfied God's righteous requirements. Then, in the greatest event thus far in creation history, God revealed the fullness of his Glory in Jesus. The God-man Jesus, though he was innocent and knew no sin, became sin on behalf of those who hated him. He substituted himself for evil doers, past, present and future. He absorbed the fury of the Almighty God against their sin. A fury that would have consumed man eternally, Jesus bore in his body and soul. On the cross he died in the place of his people. He was punished for our peace. Yet death could not chain down his indestructible life. Jesus drank the cup of damnation dry. On the third day Jesus rose from the dead. He now reigns with God and as God over all creation.

As his people, rescued by his mission of the cross, we place our hope and aspirations in Jesus and all that is in store for him. We believe that one day he will return and all creation will acknowledge him for who he really is-God himself. He will be be glorified and we, his people, will share in that glory!

Until then, we live our lives to know him and make him known throughout our world. We do this in word and deed. We follow his example of humility, love, compassion and truth. We rely on him to deal with our sins and give us power, through his Spirit whom he sent, to overcome those sins. In the same way he loved the scriptures, we aim to love the scriptures. In the same way he was filled with God's Spirit, we aim to be filled with God's Spirit. Ultimately, in the same way he was on a mission, a mission to make God's plan of salvation known, we too are on a mission. The very same mission. To make God's salvation, namely Jesus, known to all peoples.

This is where we come full circle! As students and twenties we have, God willing, much time to do this! It's time to do what we were designed and created for...to glorify God through joyful hearts and sacrificial lives! Lets not waste them on on trivial fads. Rather, let us spend ourselves for the cause of Christ.