Fishermen

I've heard it said that "God helps those who help themselves" It took me a while to find the falsie in this. It seems very true to the physical mind but if you look at all the examples giving in the bible it doesn't fit any of them. All of them every single one except Jesus had problems and couldn't do it by them selves. I think this statement should be replaced with the statement "God helps those who cant' help themselves". Who would think a bunch of fishermen would be read about 2000 + years latter.

"Perfect" World

Sometimes we try to create a perfect world out of the imperfect world. For this world to be perfect everything would have to be cold dark and the same (absolute zero). It seems that God didn't want things to be perfect here because things are definitely not the same, not dark and far from -273 degrees Celsius. So let us not always try to make this world perfect and try to learn from the imperfections. C. S. Lewis says something along the lines that as nature reaches towards perfection it does not become more the same but becomes different from each other. He then compares it to good. Here is the actual quote "Good as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only form evil but from other good". This seems to be different then our current society. It wants to make every one the same, eat the same, live the same, .... It seems people are easier to control and make money when everyone is the same.

So God I pray that you will teach us to be different and that we can come together and all share a different part of you.

Can't afford to fill up the tank, to put something together

Things just don't seem to work this week so (and not because of the gas prices), so I'm going to leave you with a verse.
John 6:26
Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.

Lift your eyes to the mountain from where your help comes from

I was thinking that allot of my previous post may make someone depressed because it is cutting away at everything that we as humans hold on to. I guess what I'm trying to say is that when you take anything other than God an put it as the center or your life it will fall apart but when you but Christ as the center you get everything back in ways you could never imagine.

Change

Life has its many twists and turns but I still see allot of the characteristics of the child hood me in my life. Some of them good some of them I wish I could throw away and have tried many times. It seems as adults we just learn different ways of hidding those things we dislike. I guess it is only God who can really change people because we don't know which way to go. I pray to God that he will change me.

Unoffical Post

Because all authors have exams for the next month there will be a blockade for new official posts. This message was written late because management had to figure out how to let people know with out making an official post. After many days they decided that this unofficial post was the best option.

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.