When my pain gets acute enough I begin to seek relief and it is then that I consider that there is a better way a truer reality and inevitably it is that reality that is home.  Not the home made by mom’s and dad’s that this world offers but in the arms of the Father who waits, who gave, who gives still.  Prior to the pig pen our sense of entitlement leads us to pleasure and pacifying and gratifying our desires.  When that falters and the money runs out in self-reliance we slop the pigs, resenting the state of affairs but still willful enough to hold out…maybe we cast blame, or angrily judge or accuse but soon enough we break and we acknowledge what we have always known to be true.  We are loved, we have a home and we can return their in complete acceptance…where we are received with joy…and we see the joy in the eye of our father and it is what we have always longed for and in that moment we know…we at last are home.  What all the treasures and pleasures could not satisfy the joyful delight of the father fills and satisfies…brokenness is the beginning to the pathway home.

Jeff Harris

Senior Pastor, Grace Point Church

www.gracepoint.org

www.pastorjeffharris.com

2 Corinthians 3:17-18 “where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom. And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord are being transformed into his likeness with every increasing glory which comes from the Lord who is the Spirit”.

As the Spirit of God has control of my life greater Glory is reflected…more of him less of me.  As I pursue my glory…less of the Spirit emanates from my life.  The duality of motive is so profound in my alone.  I tend to want to point to T.V. preachers or well marketed and slick self promoters and yet in my own heart there is no less competition for personal glory that vies for the place of God.  Where his Spirit is in increasing measure so His glory is revealed in increasing measure…more of him, less of me.

Jeff Harris

Senior Pastor, Grace Point Church

www.gracepoint.org

www.pastorjeffharris.com

Starry Night Shine

A million miles into darkness you shine,

Starry night shine-reflection of the sun.

An unmoving testimony cutting through the night,

Starry night shine, all that is right, shine.

A guiding light in all the confusion

Starry night shine-leading me home.

Holding out brilliant reminders of hope in the darkness

Starry night shine-sending me promised love-

And I will shine like the midnight starry night shine

And I will run, no not in vain…light shine.

Jeff Harris

Senior Pastor, Grace Point Church

www.gracepoint.org

www.pastorjeffharris.com

Starry Night Shine

A million miles into darkness you shine,

Starry night shine-reflection of the sun.

An unmoving testimony cutting through the night,

Starry night shine, all that is right, shine.

A guiding light in all the confusion

Starry night shine-leading me home.

Holding out brilliant reminders of hope in the darkness

Starry night shine-sending me promised love-

And I will shine like the midnight starry night shine

And I will run, no not in vain…light shine.

Jeff Harris

Senior Pastor, Grace Point Church

www.gracepoint.org

www.pastorjeffharris.com