The good taking over the GREAT.

Every time i think that im going good, Holy Spirit tends to show me something else that i really could work on/ was comprehending and doing and then easily drifted back from.
He's never giving me a break...and im loving it :)
My family is up in northern Minnesota right now at a fishing resort for vacation. From the start i havent been able to shake the thoughts about how i feel like im wasting a week. In complete comfort and relaxation. When we could be spending our time and resources for the kingdom instead. Which sounds kinda crazy. Especially because never have i felt like this for the past 6 or 7 years weve come to this resort. But i guess thats what happens when we change our mindset to one of a radical God.
So I was sitting by the pool just a few mins ago reading a book called "Jesus Culture" by Banning Liebscher. And around me are a bunch of crazy children screaming and being selfish about who gets to use the goggles. And to my right was a group of adults with a bunch of beer and foul mouths. And i kept thinking about how i had to do something. (And dont get too excited..this isnt a blog about overcoming a fear story) But i kept thinking about what I, ME, had to do. Maybe i should go play with the kids. Or maybe i could just walk up to the crazy, obnoxious drunks and ask them if they know Jesus.
Instead though, the Holy Spirit decided to simply show me something else.
All of a sudden i read in my book a story about a revivalist named Kathryn Kuhlman.
And it stated: "Kuhlman was a woman who adored the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit loved to hang out with her because she was a friend of God."
Wow.
Now ived discussed before the revelation that really hit me about how we are called to be a friend to God. That he is longing for a relationship from us. not a one way relationship where we take, we ask, we receive, we complain, we ask again, etc. But one where we sit and are his friend. we sit and ask him what He is thinking. What he is wanting.  To be a friend to him along with him being a friend to us.
And when i read that in the book, it simply clicked to me. The importance isnt for me to figure out what I have to do. But instead just to be his friend, and what i do will overflow from that. (Because if the HS loved to hang out with you...there is no way that nothing would overflow from that!! :) )
Sounds simple enough. But Ive found that sometimes the simplest things tend to be the most difficult to really execute.
Way too often i get thinking that i need to do this, or do that. Which im not saying is a bad thing! It would had been awesome if i had went and played with the little kids in the pool or talked to the loud people sitting near me.

But the KEY is- we cant let the good things over take the GREAT things.
Did you catch that?
The good things would be to interact with the little kids who seemed like they probably dont have great role models in their life. Or it would be a good thing to witness to the drunks! Those are good things!!
But the GREAT things are to love and know our GOD.

we cant allow our passion to do good to ever over take our desire, and actually our NEED to have the great.
And im completely confident that when we have the GREAT things in our life, the good will always quickly follow.

Now its not an excuse for me to not do the good things. Because to be honest, i dont really enjoy playing with bratty kids. And the idea of actually physically getting up and taking a few steps over to a bunch of obnoxious adults and asking them if they knew Jesus, scared me.
But i also began to realize that if i really had a REAL and LEGIT relationship and friendship built with God, the God who created freaking EVERYTHING, and he asked me to go play with kids or go talk to some strangers, i would do it in a heartbeat. For our God? why would i even dare think about not?!

Because i havent yet established the GREAT things before i attempt to do the good.