Fountain of Youth
I have found the fountain of youth. It’s not as appealing as everyone thinks. As a matter of fact, it can be quite discouraging. I believe it’s different for everyone. For me it’s rather simple; sporadic acne and the disability to grow facial hair.
It seems that often at work I’m asked if I’m old enough to have a full time job. One time, I was at this lady’s house and she asked me that very question. I asked her in return how old she was. She said she was 22. year’s old. I said, “Ma’am, no offense but I’m 29.” To her astonishment, she apologized and said that I looked very young. I thanked her and went on my way.
This could be a good thing, but sometimes I don’t like it. I think the main reason I don’t like it is no one takes me seriously. They see me as a “young’un”. I’m not found to know what I’m talking about half the time. I’m just a snot nosed kid.
So is finding the fountain of youth worth it? Sometimes!
Marital Epitomy
While I write this I am sitting on the couch out of work because I am sick. There is a weird stomach bug going around. I thought I had escaped it but I was wrong.
Sunday after church, my wife had gotten very sick and needed to go straight home. She stayed in bed for two days with exception of going to the bathroom about 100 times. I did my best to take care of her by going to Wal-Mart to get some stuff and simply being there for her if she needed me. I’m not very good at it though.
So when I got sick yesterday, I thought I was going to die. I think there was a little heat exhaustion involved. Temperatures around here have been in the 100’s for the past 2 weeks, (insane). I just about passed out and I got very dizzy and had to leave work early. I even had to have my boss drive me home.
After three bottles of Gatorade and a bottle of pedialyte, things seem to be looking up for me. My wife took very good care of me by calling my pastor who’s also an EMT so he came by to see how things were and to bring me these goods.
I’m very thankful to have people in my life that care about me. It’s funny because I am in the middle of writing a song called “Humiliate Me”. I believe God is doing so. My prayer through this is that I will learn something from this.
Humiliate me, humiliate me, humiliate me, O Lord
You can make me, You can make me, humiliated, O Lord!
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Why!!!
I have been posed the question why did God create people if He, being all-knowing, knew that some would go to hell.
Wow, what a question.
I once heard a story that went something like this.
“There was a little boy walking the beach one day throwing starfish back into the ocean. A man came along and asked him, ‘What are you doing?’
The little boy replied, ‘I’m saving the lives of these starfish.’
The man looked way down the beach and realized this was an impossible feat. ‘Son, you can’t make a difference with all the starfish laying out on the beach.’
The little boy picked up a starfish, looked at it, then turned to throw it in the ocean. “I made a difference in that one’s life!’”
I’ll give another example. I am affiliated with compassion international. My wife and I sponsor a little girl in Peru by the name Gianella.
I heard on the radio coming home from work a commercial for Compassion. The commercial was reenacting a moment when a girl first found out she was gonna be sponsored. I got to thinking about how maybe a year or two down the road that sponsor may not be able to sponsor her anymore. Then what? What if Compassion had asked that same question before they started this ministry. What about all those children that never would have made it through out life if it had not have been for their sponsors. What about our Gianella. Where would she be now if not for us.
I’m scared to think if God would have asked those same question about us. God sitting in Heaven tired of the angels forced to worship Him. He decided to create someone that would willingly worship Him, someone that would willingly love Him, someone that would willingly devote theirselves to Him. So He created us, with the hopes that everyone would worship Him.
I believe it would have been more atrocious had He not created us for the lack of knowledge of God is worse off than the ability to have known Him!
Ooooops!!!!!!!
This is so funny. I must let you know that I kill bugs for a living. I am an exterminator. So I was at this woman’s house to do an inspection for termites. I pull up to the house and she’s sitting in her garden pulling weeds. I wave at her but she didn’t wave back which kinda annoyed me. After talking with her a while, she told me she was 82 yrs. old and blind. So that’s why she didn’t wave.
So as I was sitting there I saw that an ant had crawled up on her and was walking around on her hat. She had this like jungle explorer’s hat on. So as she was talking, I couldn’t take my attention off this ant. It was really getting to me. So I figured if I moved towards her with the notion to knock this ant off her hat, she wouldn’t notice me and I would have scored my good deed for the day.
Wham! I swung at her and she moved just so slightly towards me that I got more hat than ant and off went the hat 10 feet away. I think I got some forehead too. She spooked so bad she fell off her cart she was sitting on. I apologized trying to tell her what my intention was. She just wouldn’t quit laughing. I was so embarrassed. I couldn’t believe she thought it was funny.
I helped her back on her cart and we talked for ten more minutes before I left apologizing again for my actions. I was so embarrassed but now it’s kinda funny! Giggle!
Peace out, man
We all want peace. You want peace. I want peace. Every Miss America dating back to the first contest wants peace (world peace). Peace is a great thing. No struggles. No quarrels. No fighting. The lion lying down next to the lamb kinda atmosphere. We all want that. But this peace will never exist on this earth. I don’t want to make any absolute statements so just regard this as my opinion.
As long as people have their own agendas, there will never be peace. At least the peace that the world understands. I was driving by a church when I saw a sign that read, “When Jesus rules you, peace rules your life.” This is not the peace the world knows of. The world thinks of peace as no wars, no fighting, no argumentations, no conflictions whatsoever. This was never the intention of Jesus. This is not the peace that Jesus speaks about. (Jn 15:18, Matthew 10:34)
The peace that Jesus speaks about goes way beyond understanding (Phil.4:7). It’s the peace that comes when you don’t feel like there could ever be peace again in your life. It’s the kind of peace when a loved one dies and you know where they’re at but you still lament. It’s the kind of peace that comes over you when the whole world is crashing around you yet the arms of God still hold you and comfort you. It’s not the peace the world gives but that of God. (Jn 14:27)
Some want world peace but this peace doesn’t start on a governmental level. It doesn’t even start on a home front level. It starts on a personal level. Voting is a great thing, (I highly recommend it, it gives you the right to complain) but if Christians don’t get out and start campaigning for Christ, we’ll lose the race (to the lost persons heart).
I’m a realist*, neither a pessimist nor an optimist. In a perfect world, peace throughout the whole world might be a possibility. But we are living in a material world and I am a material girl… ok, so I took a tangent. Forgive me.
You may say that I lack the faith in a perfect God. But I think I have faith in a perfect God’s perfect word. Like where He tells us that satan (anti-christ) will restore “false” peace for 3 ½ years before truly revealing himself. Now brace yourselves for this next statement. I almost rejoice at the idea that things are happening in this world that Christians don’t like. (2 Tim 3) I know you probably think this is backwards thinking, but you also probably think “rejoicing in the times of trials” (James 1:2) is backwards thinking as well. But this means that the day of our Lord is near. You see God is not a liar. He said all these things will happen.
We rejoice over the grace and mercy of God and pout over the death and destruction the bible speaks about. We want the good things the bible gives us and we anger over the bad things. But God is allowing these things to happen and we should rejoice because we get to take part.
Now, the bible says, “What should we say then? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may multiply? Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?” (Romans 6:1-2) So I ask, “Just because in the last days we’ll see perilous times, should we let it continue to go on? God forbid. How can we who have experienced mercy and grace not pass it forward?” (Kevin 3:22,j/k) Just as we should strive for perfection in our lives beside grace, we should strive to share faith and turn the world around for Christ in spite of prophecy.
* A realist is someone who sees the glass as “not” half empty “nor” half full but what ever the last action taken on the glass. If it was drunk out of, it’s half empty, if something was being poured into it, it’s half full.
Homos and Heroes
Disclaimer: May not be suitable for the spiritually sensitive!
Something hit me just today. I saw a cow trying to mount another cow. The thought came to me that homosexual people say that homosexuality is natural. I have had these conversations with my gay friends and I agree to an extent. I do believe that you can be born gay. The bible says we are born into sin. And it even mentions a thing I am cursed with called generational curses.
But the beauty of the whole thing is that even though a person may be born with homosexual tendencies, I don’t believe that God has called us to stay that way. We were born into sin (Psalm 51:5) but that doesn’t mean God wants us to continue to sin. Humanism is no excuse because God has given us way. His name is Jesus. His blood covers a multitude of sins plus through Him we can do all things that are in accordance to His will (Phil.4:13) because He gives us the power and the desire to do them(Phil. 2:13).
God has not called “people” to be natural. He has presuppositioned us to be better than any other animal. That is why He gave us dominion over them in Genesis 1:27-28. He expects more from us than what he expects from other animals. So to use the excuse that monkeys and dogs and cats and even cows do it, is no excuse for us. We are made better than that. God expects more because we are His “chosen” creation. If we weren’t, then Jesus should have came in the image of what is His chosen creation. I think He did.
So through Him we CAN do better. If you are a homosexual reading this, or in any kind of habitual sin for that matter, you can change through the power of the Holy Spirit. God doesn’t want you to continue in that sin. Your better than that. I think so. God thinks so. What do you think. I guess that is the ultimate question!!!!!!!!!
