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I'm not trying to convince people, I meet too many people like that.
Rather I'm trying to say what I consider the truth, and whether or not you listen is up to you.
God's plan for his followers continues on.
I find that God does the same things. God says to the sun to stop shining and it does, he tells the earth to shake and it does. But he never forces any person to listen to him. He might set up circumstances to make it as obvious a choice as can be but the choice is still up to the person. It is the freedom he has given all of us, and with every freedom comes responsibility. If people refuse him, it doesn't make God smaller, make Jesus sacrifice any less but rather makes the rejector less.

Jesus is here to offer us a friendship with God creator of all.

Tremor

Tremor is bringing in the new day.
They are great yet unnerving times.
Things shake,
You don't know what will be left behind, and what will stay.
The landscape changes from the familiar to the unfamiliar.
Many things I would like to have in place.
Many things I would like to do.
Regardless the new day always comes.

I think I just worry to much sometimes :( Gah
What comes, comes,
What happens, happens.
So here is to not worrying as much :)

God help me be who you want me to be.
Teach us to do things the right way.
God lead us
God bless us

What does it take to cross the bridge?

I have seen smarter people than me simply lose everything for really nothing. I have watched people I considered a much better Christian than me simple turn it all in, and I have seen people show what is underneath. It makes me wonder what does it take to cross the bridge.

One thing this past year and a bit has taught me is how to pray. I have never prayed more, I have never asked God for so much.

Yesterday in church I heard one of the most brilliant messages about things that control us. This person talked about how there life was controlled by something relativity simple, and it was by asking God for a greater passion for him that this person could overcome the control.

So many times we use quick fixes, to subdue our desires. It's an idea I think C.S Lewis mentions allot, how we continue to skew and distort what God has given to us to lead us to him.

There was a evening a few years ago there was an event happening and I was out of the loop, and though I tried to get in the loop I ended up just making a bigger fool of myself. That night was hard and I prayed to God "I can't take this, do something ..." or something like that. In the mist of that I suddenly felt better, and though I ended up not doing anything that evening I was fine with it. It blew my mind, and I still do not understand. It is so counter culture, doesn't make any sense. I don't believe that God calls us to live as a hermit, but I do believe that God uses our desires to call us closer to him.

This is me trying to cross the bridge (Working On Progress). 1 Peter 2:1-9

God give us a passion for you.
God bless us in only the way you can.
God lead us in your ways.
God protect us.

Lights in the shadows

I was going to write something completely else today but well ...

Today's reading comes from Luke 4:1-13. Read it in your favorite translation. I won't confuse/bore you with my old school NKJV. If you don't have a bible there are many available free on the internet.

From the little religious teaching I have received I remembered that scholars propose that what the devil is doing is tempting Jesus to be a different kind of savior. In the first one he is tempted to save the world by feeding it. In the second he is tempted to be a political savior. In the third he is tempted to wow people with miracles and use that to lead people to God. Though Jesus did feed people, did miracles, and uses people really God sent him to save the world by dying for the worlds sins. (There is probably lots of info on this if you are interested)

There are a couple of things that stick out to me. Jesus allows himself to be tempted, he doesn't tell the devil to leave, but rather was lead into the wilderness.

I'm not getting at that we should go look for trouble, but rather sometimes there are things that work at us and sometimes we need to walk through the fire to overcome them. I would rather skip the whole process. Two things comes to mind for me,

In my line of work it is all about ideas and putting them together. My "Big" idea was an underwater hotel. Beside all the shortfalls of that idea and the fact that someone is already doing exactly that I believe God asked me one day "Why I was working so hard". The truth is because that is all I knew what to do to full fill my dreams. God showed me that I could work so hard and only at the last step lose everything, so I gave it to God. I consider this one of the great temptations that was offered to me, and with God helping me over come it. I drastically changed my thinking and it matured me.

This past year and a bit I have had more than one invitation to join a different lifestyle, and you know even though I "know the facts" ... when the day comes will the reasons for your choices be enough to weather the storm. The truth is that my understanding of the world has changed again and I not the same person that I was a year ago because of it. I have never been so convinced that we humans never really different then we where 100 years ago or 1000 years ago ...

I am not saying that I am mighty ... or am anything mature/great, but rather it shows my weakness that where tried(and I am guessing they will be tried again). It helps me to see life as a journey and we make statements about what are living for in the decision we make.

I am not saying that we should go look for trouble but rather if we like Jesus are "led by the Spirit" Luke 4:1 we could be shown where we would be if God left us to ourselves.

Anyways those are my thoughts.

God bless us
God lead us

On the path to Transparancy

I guess sometimes you have to exchange blows, to know the choices people have made.

God is and always has been my protector. Through the deep waters, that are over my head, I prayed to God for direction, and guidance. God carried me, we walked on water.