God First

Not sure why I like C. S. Lewis so much. God seems to speak to me through his writing.

Lately I am re-read The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis and what hit me the most is how Satan wants us to believe lies but also hide the lies we believe. We then find ourselves doing things we don't want to and have no idea why.

This comes out in a variety of ways this can happen here are some examples.

You can find in some of my previous blogs how I tried to be a better person by working harder at it. It was because deep down I believed the lie that I could fix myself.

"He said to another man, “Follow me.”

But the man replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”

Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”

Still another said, “I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say good bye to my family.”

Jesus replied, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”"
— Luke 9:59-62, NIV

It's not that any of these things are bad .... or good. It's whether the things in life leads us to the creator of the world (good) or leads us farther away (evil).

So my challenge to us is to find the lies that Satan has gotton us to believe and rip them out and turn it into God's truth.

God help us find the lies we believe
God help us change them into your truth
God help us see with clarity
God help us reach into your depths
God help us with our daily needs
God send your presence to us

Disc

So I was introduced to a new personality test. I appears to be the best one yet.

Disc appears to hit the nail on the nose.

It splits people into two different scales.
We are somewhere on the scale of task orientated or people orientated.
We are somewhere on the scale of extravert or intravert.

You combine these scales into a x-y plot and you find that there is 4 quadrants or 4 personality types.

The first type is the task orientated extravert which they label as the Dominant
The second type is the people orientated extravert which they label as the Influence
The third type is the people orientated introvert which they label as the Steady
The forth type is the task orientated which they label as the Cautious

Of course no person is the same so everyone will have a mix of the above but will have one dominant personality type.

What I found most interesting is the each person has a fundamental question that they ask.
The Dominant asks What?
The Influencer asks Who?
The Steady asks When, How?
The Cautious asks Why?

This tool is not to say anyone type is better but I find it useful to understand where other people are coming from.

Anyways take a look around the Web for the Disc personality type. I like it.

God bless us
God lead us
God work in our lives
God dig out the lies that we live
God help us search for your truth.

Sometimes

Why are we so selfish sometimes?
Why do we think that life should be fair?
Why do we feel treated unfairly when we see other slack off?
Why do we feel ripped off when we work harder?

There is only one who will judge us
There is only one who paid for our mistakes
There is only one relationship greater than the rest

Dear God,

Help me do the best with what you have given me.
Help me work for you, the best I can, even when I see other not doing so.
Help me give everything to you

I love you

John Friesen

Maybe

Maybe we weren't given enough
So that we had to trust God

Maybe we weren't given enough
So that we learn to be humble

Maybe we weren't given enough
So that we can learn about a Divine relationship

Maybe we weren't given enough
So that we could be broken

Maybe we weren't given enough
So that we can trust God

So
thank you God for not giving me enough
thank you God for teaching me to trust you
thank you God for teaching me to be humble
thank you God for our divine relationship
thank you God for breaking me

So
help me to realize the blessing
help me to trust
help me to jump for joy at your leading

Thank you!
Help others to experience the same thing.
You are mighty
You are strong
You are my God
Thank you!

Lets go!

God looks back and calls me to catch up.

No time for resentment, no time for grudges, Lets go!!

God has stuff to do, God has things to show, God has places to go.

No room for selfish desires, no room to focus on our faults

Look at Christ, Lets go!

Oh the things to see, Oh the miracles to behold, who's to say

Let's let our disagreements be resolved, Let's let our pain be healed, Let's move this forward

Where did you go? What am I to do?

God is nea, Lets go!

Let's not forget to trust him with everything, Let's not forget to give everything to his care

Let's leave it at his feet and wait ........

....... for God to call us to catch up.

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Extra-ordinary people

What if?

What if people would lay down everything?
Lay down everything as a sacrifice to God?

What if we could give up our dreams?
To the one who knows us better than ourselves.
And trying to accomplish them by our self

What if we could give up our darkest corners of our lives? Our sin?
To the one who truly know how to fix our lives.
And stop trying to fix it by our self

What if we gave up our problems?
To the fixer of problems
instead of fixing them by our self 

What if we filled our lives with God?

What if we trusted God???????

Peace with our Creator!!!

I've really like what our pastor has been talking about over the past few weeks. He has preach a few weeks on the ideas of. Life from God, Life over God, Life for God, Life under God, and Life with God. He has been talking about how we relate to God (or don't relate).


I recommend you research those topics as I found some interesting stuff on the web. The basic idea is that a God that is all power full, all knowing, ever present designed us to follow him, and have a relationship with him.

He used a good analogy today and it was in response to a question he was asked. How can you have peace in death. Image you have in front of you flash cards with everything that is important to you. Memories, things, people, culture ... etc. and one by one they get taken away. Ie. you lose memories .. things ... people. What will you have left when you die ("ashes to ashes") ?


Turns out you only have what should be your hope, trust, companion God. He is everlasting by definition God.

Quotes

"... we may have a duty to rescue a drowning man and, perhaps, if we live on a dangerous coast, to learn lifesaving so as to be ready for any drowning man when he turns up ... But if anyone devoted himself to lifesaving in the sense of giving it his total attention -- so that he thought and spoke of nothing else and demanded the cessation of all other human activities until everyone had learned to swim - he would be a monomaniac. The rescue of drowning men is, then a duty worth dying for, but not worth living for. ... He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself." C.S Lewis The Weight of Glory

What is truth?

What is truth?

Why do we play games?

Where is your light?

Where is your help in the midst of this?

I'm sure I'm crazy
Why do I see things differently?

Where is your guiding?


Oh God I am so insignificant in you vast universe.
I am a sinner
You are so holy
I feel you so near
I feel you guiding
I feel your presence, I pray other will too!
I pray you break this gridlock
I pray you free us from our chains
I pray you share you love far and wide
I pray you change our hearts
I pray we will see our dependence on you!

New International Version (NIV)
John 8

12 When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Matthew 11
28“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

Proverbs 3:5-6

5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
6 in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.

?

What stands between believers and non-believers?
What holds us back from praising and following our creator?

Where does the world lie?
What grief must God feel to see a lost creation?

Where do I fit in?
How can I possibly follow you God?
How can we possibly get along?
How can we make this humanity work?

What wonders you do amongst us?
What healing powers do you unleash each day?
How many sins are forgiven?

Why are we so focused on ourselves?
How can I see my own selfishness yet unable to change?

Where do we fit in your grand plan?
Why did you even bother to create us?

What plan do you have after death?
What wonders are in store?

My heart tugs at the unknown
My heart longs for the infinite
My heart needs you God

But I am so unworthy

God help me live for you
God help me strive for you
God help me give everything to you
God help me give even my own flaws to you

God work in our hearts
God lead us to your green pastures
God help us depend on you

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