Monday, March 23, 2009

I Confess It


I believe with all my heart, all my mind, all my soul in God the Creator, the loving Father, the Intelligent Designer, the Warrior, my God my Savior. He is all knowing, all loving, all caring, all things to me. In everything I see his hands. He is strength beyond strength, Love beyond love, hope beyond hope, light were no darkness can hide, Truth a lie can not deny. He is my everything. I see him and hear his voice in all languages and all sounds in all sights in all of my senses. God is very real I can't deny it. Jesus Christ is God's Son. Sent from heaven to save mankind from their own self destruction. I can see him with my heart. I can feel him with my hands. I know he is real and more evident than the air I breath.

He's the one who gave the birds the beauty of flight. He is the one who told the clouds to rain down on the fields. Who put the color in the flowers but God? Life can not come from dust and water. Only through the divine breath of God can creation exist. He put the stars in the heaven and set them all in motion. God is so obvious don't run from what is so clearly in front of you.

Monday, March 9, 2009

Things that don't work

What is it with the things we keep around that don't work or get used? When I was growing up I bought a bunch of fishing lures. One of those lures worked really well and I would catch a lot of fish on it. I had other lures that looked really fancy and cost a pretty penny but I couldn't catch anything on them. I tried using worms of all shapes and sizes, stink baits, chicken liver, corn. All sorts of things but it was always this one lure that caught all the fish. But still I kept all the worthless lures thinking they might come in useful one day. Then the day came that I had to move and I gave them all away. Many never catching a single tiny fish.

A few years later I was getting back into archery and I bought a couple really nice bows and all the extras. I was living in Oklahoma at the time and was planning on doing some deer hunting up north. I got orders to Hawaii and my bows never got the chance to bag me a deer. A few years later I was moved to England and I had a fire that burned up everything I had in my garage. I wasted a lot of money on things that never worked or got used as I expected. So today I was walking to the base community center to get on the internet and I got to thinking about all this stuff that I put a lot of work into buying and lost.

So anyways I was thinking....

If you had a car that only ran 10% of the time would you keep it?
If you had a lawn mower that only worked when it was cold what good would it do you in the summer heat?
If you had a lazy employee that only works 2 hours and got paid 8 hours would you keep him on?

Now for a different perspective-
What good are we to God if we don't work as he wants?
What good are we if we only "play" Christian on Sundays?
What good are we if we go our entire life and in our final moments decide to accept him?

I never want to go another day not serving God in every way I can.

God has put great value in you. So much that his own son died to protect us and pay for our sins. Shouldn't we give everything we are to repay him? Shouldn't we live everyday for the one who gave us life?

Christians respond please.