My Heart

Dear Revolutionaries,

I thought it would be appropriate to share my heart with you concerning this blog and podcast.
I, in many ways, consider myself a very ordinary person. I do ordinary things. For example, yesterday I was at work looking at store inventories. My wife called me because her belt came off of her minivan. Listen to episode for Episode 4 - A Day at the Beach to learn some background on this.

I had to get a tow truck but the details are not important---what is important is that my life consists of ordinary things. I go to work and I call tow truck operators.

I believe the same can be said of you.
At some point I realized that, even in my ordinary life, God does the extraordinary.

I see that this is not only the case in my life but in the life of all people. There are literally millions and billions of extraordinary things going on in the lives of ordinary people.

My heart is to get these stories out. One of the greatest weapons the enemy uses against us is isolation. The enemy of our souls desires for me and for you to feel isolated and alone. When we share our stories with one another a few things happen---and this list is not exhaustive.

1. The feeling of isolation can begin to dissipate. For some reason it eases our pain and suffering when we know we are not alone. I won't get too much into it, but earlier this year my wife and I experienced the loss of a child through miscarriage. One of the most amazing things that happened was we learned that there are countless people who have had the same experience, but they suffered alone. The Lord brought so many people around us to comfort us; and many of these people had gone through the same thing. By sharing their pain with us we all received comfort.

2. God is glorified.  These stories we share, whether stores of triumph or tragedy, display the awesome power of God. A friend of mine reminded me that life is made up of peaks and valleys. The fact is that God is with us regardless. By sharing how the Lord works in our lives, in both peaks and valleys, God is given glory for his awesome strength, mercy, and love.

3. Revolutionaries are born. Or should I say "born again." So many people who are not yet believers in Christ are searching for something real. I would wager that many of these if not most of these people are uninterested in the white-washed and fabricated lives many of the so-called religious folk display But rather I believe that people are looking for something real. When you hear an account from a real person about encountering the eternal God---there is power in that!

This battle is a spiritual one---it is to win the souls of people. Tales of the Revolution exists to aid in the battle by binding us together as revolutionaries as we seek to add to our ranks.

Won't you join me?

-Jason Vreeke