C.S. Lewis "The problem of Pain"

So I'm reading the book "The problem of Pain" by C.S. Lewis. Here are some things I caught from the book.

"We want, in fact, not so much a Father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven - a senil benevolence who, as they say, 'liked to see young people enjoying themselves',and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, 'a good time was had by all'" ... " It is abundantly clear that I don't and since I have reason to believe, nevertheless, that God is Love I conclude that my conception of love needs correction"

He also mentions how we are made to follow God's will and that in doing so we become more human. More of what we are created to be. We are created to have our energy and our thoughts flowing out of God.

Anyways I like the book but it is a difficult read. I find myself getting tired each time I open the book but want to read more.

God bless.
God fill you with energy and thoughts
God heal our bodies
God heal our minds
and draw us closer to you.

Galatians

So I just finished reading Galatians in the message translation. I am struck by how Paul talks about the law and working for our salvation. It seems we get stuck in our head sometimes that we have to be good to receive salvation. Sometimes I guess I forget that belief in Jesus is where it is at.

Sorry it's been so long.

God bless you
God love you
God speak to you

Are thoughts are us and we are our thoughts

Lately through the things I read and the people I meet I am understanding this more and more.

"We are our thoughts and our thoughts are us"

The idea what we think about, how we think about people determine our actions and our words.

I find it is nothing new

“You have heard that our ancestors were told, ‘You must not murder. If you commit murder, you are subject to judgement.’ But I say, if you are even angry with someone, you are subject to judgement! If you call someone an idiot, you are in danger of being brought before the court. And if you curse someone, you are in danger of the fires of hell.” (Matthew 5:21,22) NLT

And then the simple solution is just change our thoughts!

Lol well I am working at it, and so embark on one of the most interesting challenges of life. I embark on changing who I am.

I pray that God is near you
I pray that God reaches into you soul and pulls you out
I pray for green pastures
I pray for healing
I pray you have a great week.

God Bless!!

Words I can not form

I try to put words to things in life that I love and I come up with nothing -
How do you explain to people things you can't put in words -
How can you touch some one's soul

Praying for my friends these days! You should to!

God works in mysterious ways,
ways that I love but yet can not explain.
I wish the same for everyone.


God Bless us
God Lead us to your throne
God bless our inner lives.
God speak to us

Daniel

The more I read Daniel the more I feel like we have so much to learn from him.

In the midst of a society that did not repect God he was regarded wise and just. The same society that tried his faith and the faith of his friends (to the point of trying to take his life) he treated fairly and God blessed him for it.

We find that God is powerful to save, and powerful to lead.

Only me

I’m here because I believe the one who is has called me here.

I’ve found that when the sun rises up there sets down here
God will call us home.

I remember God calling me to be small.
crawled up small and felt my insignificance you’l find it here
Not to down grade me But to lead me on.

God voice is like a blazing fire yet as quite as a mouse
To call us into the only relationship that matters

It is God almighty, who calls us deeper and higher and I am just a struggling fool.

God bless us,
God lead us on.
God pull us closer to you.
God help us.

So Easy

I find it so easy to fall into a mindset that I have to work for grace. I must do things when by deffinition it is given with out any conditions.

I keep thinking that I have to obey Christ to be saved. I have to be better. I have to do something.

But this is the changing power of Christ, we don't have to do a thing. God gives our redemption for free, he only askes that we follow him whereever he leads.

If we fall off the road, Jesus is always there calling us back and offering to continue the jorney. That is down right amazing! It is the power of God that changes people. It is the power of God to save people.

Makes me wonder where we get our ideas of of strengh!

God bless us,
God lead us,
God change our lives,
God work inside us,
God change the world.
Show us your way,
Show us your power!

I've been listening to JJ Heller recently and really liking the music you should check the music out.

Getting Better

It seems to me that things always get worse before they get better. Joseph is sold into slavery, put in prison. But thought the midst of God's plan that leads him into a place where he can be reunited with his family and save them from starvation.

Jesus had to die on the cross and I think all hope was lost for the apostles before Jesus appears to them and changes the face of history. Changes the lives of so many.

I guess it comes down to what Jesus says in the Garden of Gethsemane

Mark 14:36 “Abba,[a] Father,” he said, “everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.” 

Blind Defense

"Oh, Adam's sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!" C.S. Lewis The Magician's Nephew

I wonder if we have pushed God out of our lives for so long that ingrained in us is the unwillingness to hear God. As if we assume that God can't speak to us because He is a mysterious person. Because he is beyond our understanding.

I wonder if we could right the wrong, and experience a world where we can hear God walking, where we can talk to him like a friend.

I think so, I've heard to many stories that say people have.

Anyways those are my thoughts.

God bless us,
God heal our land,
God be with all those that are hurting from painful loss.
God bring us closer to you
God live among us
God speak to us.
Everything is yours.

All God's

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
—Romans 15:13

This is the challenge I have for myself these days. To trust God for everything, realizing that he provides for us, not us providing for God.

I believe that sometimes we are temped to take more than what God has given us. Sometimes I think we are temped to worry about things that God has provided for.

God bless us
God lead us
God teach us to trust you with everything
God lead us to green pastures