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I guess He does know what he is doing

I was discouraged. How could God call me to do something and then not let me. "God, you called me to do this and then you shut every door," I found myself yelling. And to think, the whole time in His gentle wisdom and sense of humor he has to have, (we have one and were made in His image) I am sure he was laughing and saying, "Don't be so stupid. I called you to do something don't you know that I will make it happen. You don't have to kick doors open."
"But God," I would say, "This is what I want to do."
"Not really," he would say "I know best."
And He does. He reminded me this week that He is looking at the big picture. He sees today and tomorrow and the next day and 5 years from now, all at once. And He's like:"If you do that, then you will end up having to do this, and not do that, and then this will happen, and you will miss the prom......." well, you get the point. He knows.
It's am awesome concept to really grasp. It puts stupid worries out of business. "What am I gonna do about this? or How is this going to work? Am I going to be able to eat? Why is it happening like that? Is this navy blue or black?...

GOD knows what's going to happen. I can rest in that.
Yeah... REST AT LAST.

Last Words.

I go to this website called askaninja.com. People write in and ask a "ninja" questions and he answers them in a web cast. I think it is one of the funniest things out there. So I was watching one that struck me - http://askaninja.com/node/3079 - its called last words check it out. He goes on and does his normal funny stuff but then he says something that made me stop and think. He talks about not letting your life come down to last words. He suggest writing them down now and telling people hey - these are really my last words. Which is not an awful idea considering Pancho Villa, a Mexican revolutionary,was obviously not prepared when he said, "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something." But I would like to suggest a different thing. Let the actions of your life be so loud, that at the end, no words are necessary. You don't have to say some long drawn out speech so people will remember you are certain way. Chances are, you may not know the words you are saying are your last. Even if you did manage to get some last words out that were brilliant and amazing, if it didn't match your life, it would not count. What if Chris Farley's last words were; "sorry we never laughed together," or if Hitler said, " I loved everyone." Bottom line, words don't matter, first, last or in between. Its your actions that will tell people how you really think, feel, and believe. What are you DOING to make an impact. Carl Marx had some great last words, "Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough." He said this to his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity. LIVE and DO - don't just talk.

How am I not Dead????

How have we become so irreverent? How have we made God so small? This GREAT HUGE GOD that created the universe desires to spend time with me, longs for me, misses me and loves me. He created me to be with Him. Yet, I CHOOSE to regularly ignore my true souls craving to be with Him. I CHOOSE to do stupid and trivial things instead of spending time with Him. I CHOOSE to ignore the conviction he places on my life. I have held the very word of God in my hands and not been excited about. This Word that the Bible says can strip the forest bare, sharper than a double edge sword, I have held it and not been in awe that God would think enough of me knowing Him that he would arrange for it to be written.
How am I not dead? Not only is God so great, but He is so loving. So loving He CHOOSES not strike me down. HE CHOOSES to forgive me. He CHOOSES to still speak to me. He CHOOSES to love me the same. Wow.... I am not worthy of any of this.
May God help us to remember how HUGE He is so we may not take Him, His word, or His presence for granted.

SIN Happens

In the movie Forest Gump, there is a pretty funny scene where Forest is running across america. He runs through a pile of .... waste..... and someone running with him points it out. Forest's reaction was "it happens" and he just kept running. This is how we need to be in our Christian lives. As Christians we are going to sin - it never fails. We should never use that as an excuse for sinning but we must remember perfection is something for which we strive. It's how we respond to sin that tells how mature of a Christian we are. Sin Happens. We have 2 choices when it does. We can either stop, sit in it and cry about how we are sitting in sin - woe is me I have sinned - or we can say God, I screwed up - please forgive me and keep running towards Him. I have been having trouble with the latter lately. Sin happens - we just need to step it up and keep running.

Been a while...

I haven't posted in a while..... I'll fix that.

Last Words

I go to this website called askaninja.com. People write in and ask a "ninja" questions and he answers them in a web cast. I think it is one of the funniest things out there. So I was watching one that struck me - http://askaninja.com/node/3079 - its called last words check it out. He goes on and does his normal funny stuff but then he says something that made me stop and think. He talks about not letting your life come down to last words. He suggest writing them down now and telling people hey - these are really my last words. Which is not an awful idea considering Pancho Villa, a Mexican revolutionary,was obviously not prepared when he said, "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something." But I would like to suggest a different thing. Let the actions of your life be so loud, that at the end, no words are necessary. You don't have to say some long drawn out speech so people will remember you are certain way. Chances are, you may not know the words you are saying are your last. Even if you did manage to get some last words out that were brilliant and amazing, if it didn't match your life, it would not count. What if Chris Farley's last words were; "sorry we never laughed together," or if Hitler said, " I loved everyone." Bottom line, words don't matter, first, last or in between. Its your actions that will tell people how you really think, feel, and believe. What are you DOING to make an impact. Carl Marx had some great last words, "Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough." He said this to his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity. LIVE and DO - don't just talk.