The tree and the tumble weed

There were a group of trees on the edge of the forest. They were devoted to growing big and strong to withstand the element's of the world. There were old big trees that no one knew how long they had been there. Then one day along came a tumble weed blow out from the plains. The trees all laughed at the tumble weed for being so small and unstable. The tumble weed replied that maybe in the forest the big, strong, and stable survive but in the plains the quick, fast spreading survive.
Watch how we judge because God might be moving in completely different ways in two different people.

This Road Called Life

It seems that in the road we walk in life that there is always two ditches calling out to us to fall in. They are in a sense opposites always calling the other side ignorant. On one side you have the people who don't listen to laws and are very chaotic, the other side is all about rules and "order". The laws will say "At least I'm doing something with my life" and the chaotic side will say "You work so hard for nothing it will all be lost anyway". "Change the world" and the response "The world will not change". Then I imagine a voice coming from further on the road saying "come to me all who are heavy laden and I will give you rest". What these sides say might be true but they are vary dangerous. If these statements are taken as what your life is centered on then you will end up in the ditch. You got to keep heading for the voice and look for something that will give life and not burden you down with despair or rules.

The box we live in

This small world we live on, that we try to conquer, exploit, in realty destroy every day. Is so insignificant when you take the box of our world down. If the earth would disappear the galaxy we live in would not look any different. If our solar system would disappear the galaxy would still look the same just one infinitesimal tiny dot missing. If our galaxy would disappear would the universe notice? We humans try to do great things on this earth. We try to build great towers, travel far distances but in view of the universe they are nothing. We can do nothing that would affect anything but our own little box so why are we always tyring to do great things. This week has about giving up everything and doing the will of God Creator of the universe because nothing else matters. Here is an interesting quote from a book that I like

There were Two Trees in the Garden by Rick Joyner
"The irony is that the Lord wants us to ascend to heaven; He wants us to sit on the mount of the assembly; He wants us to be raised above the heights of the clouds; and He wants us to be like Him (to have His nature). But only He can accomplish this for us (which He has done through His Son). It has been a primary strategy of Satan through the ages to tempt man to grasp for himself what the Lord ultimately intends to give him anyway. The victory of Jesus over Satan was accomplished when He "did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped" (Philippians 2:6), but humbled Himself instead trusting the Father to exalt Him at the proper time."

O wretched man that I am!

Romans 7:19
For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil that I will not to do, that I practice.

Romans 7:24 & 25
O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
I thank God-through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

These verses have meant allot to me this week. The good things that I will to do, I do not do. Why are we so weak? I try to give up trying doing things for jealousy, pride, money, my own glory etc. I guess we get used to using these devices to motivate us that we never practice what God intended. Why can't we do God's will because we want to? Oh how I wish I could follow that.

Answers

Where can I found truth? Where are the answers to all our questions? We try to find them but our own prejudices, thoughts , and ideas cloud the answers. Even when we read the bible it is clouded by our own thoughts. My brain is controlled by chemicals and emotions that I have no control over. My body gives up fails and sits and does nothing when there is the world to do. My own brain can convince me of things that I do not believe. Is there anything that I can hold on to? It seems that all I have left is a prayer that through all of this God would touch me and make me into something I'm not. So I will bury all these problems and trust that God will one day turn it into something that I can't imagine, more real, more joyful - something that I need. As someone I know once said (paraphrase) "If God uses these events to turn people to God it was worth ever thing that it cost me."