Kileen 1/16-18/09
The New Man
by Aaron Masai

I had a little time to myself just before the Kileen Disciple Now.

Well our D-Nows and church events finished for the Fall of 2008. There was Thanksgiving and Winter Break (for us college students) and Christmas and New Years. Winter Music Camp came and went as well, and while I spent a lot of the time raking leaves, I was able to get my thoughts together for the upcoming semester. My academic schedule and work hours didn’t look any easier from last semester. It looks like it was time to buckle up and buckle down -- this semester might be a bumpy ride.

See, I have this problem. I work. A lot. Now there’s nothing wrong with this and so when I say that it’s time to “buckle down,” I really mean, “it’s time to do gobs of work for the ministry.”

And what’s wrong with that? I’m not a work-aholic; just ask anyone and they’ll tell you that I inspired the sloths to be the way they are. I just like to keep things moving that’s all.

Until my mind becomes so full and so cluttered that I can barely think straight. I have a tendancy to make work my God and therein lies the problem. Somewhere in me is a little man who gets consumed by anything that is put in front of him. Balancing work and school and Glowing Heart, I need all the time I can get. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I can hear the Spirit calling, “come be still!”

“Darn it, God” says the little man, “you’re getting in the way of the ministry!”

That was last semester. To quell the little man in me, I’d have to apply the lessons I learned. So when I sat down to create the Kileen Disciple Now video, I had a new plan. It was this: nothing.

It was 1:00AM. Time to get started? Sure. But also time to be still before God and remember for whom I was doing this ministry and why. (The little man got quieter after a prayer and a few sodas.) It was a new approach, and well, I like the results!

Colossians 3:9-11 talks about putting off the old man and putting on the new man. We are well into the new year, I’m not talking about simple New Years resolutions. The new man is different. It’s sitting at Jesus’s feet rather than running around like Martha doing chores. It’s getting out of the boat on a stormy sea simply because of faith. It’s more discovery of Jesus as Christ rather than worrying about raising the dead.

As we go into 2009, my prayer is that we all learn to put on new man.



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