Archive for January, 2008
The Greatest Show On Earth
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Satan Doesn’t Cheat On His Taxes…
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
This is another great You Tube video…I think you’ll like it!
What’s In It For Me?
Monday, January 28th, 2008
This is a pretty funny video. Unfortunately, I think there is too much truth to the attitudes portrayed in it. What do you think?
Wasted Life?
Friday, January 25th, 2008
You wake up in the morning for work. Your wife is still sleeping so you be quiet as not to wake her. You quietly hop in the shower. Brush your teeth. Shave. Get your son dressed and ready for school. Eat a little breakfast. And then off to take your son to school, and off to work. But after you drop your child off at school you get into an automobile accident and you are killed instantly.
I know this sounds like a gruesome story of sorts and are probably thinking what kind of twisted mind does this guy have. But the reality of it is, that this sort of thing happens all the time. We see it on the news, we read it in our newspapers, online. We may have even had to experience it ourselves. We just plainly don’t know when our time is.
I unfortunately think of this quite frequently. I think about how my family is going to be supported financially when I am gone. I wonder how my son would grow up without a father (And I know how many do). And then I sometimes wonder if me dying would even matter to some. Or if my mark, meant anything to anyone.
This is the point to my post…
Do you ever wonder what the world would be like without you? Have you made the mark on it that God has appointed you to do? God tells us to be a vessel for him so that others would come to know him. Is that what we are really thinking as we wake up everyday and head off to work?
I am far off the mark in which God has instructed us to be at. It all boils down to Love… Are we loving people the way that we should? And I don’t mean donating a small portion of our time to the food kitchen or helping with summer VBS. Although those are great things and I believe those are major tools in building the Kingdom. I’m talking about taking the time to listen, learn, laugh, explore. Taking the time to visit with your children and engulf yourself into their dreams and ideas. Taking the time to listen to your spouse and thoroughly understand what kind of emotion that instance may bring her. Really feel. Listening to a friend or co-workers struggle with life and not just blowing him off. This is the kind of thing I think Jesus was trying to tell us. We can just glide through life and miss so much and never experience the beauty of the things and people that God has placed around us.
This is one of my greatest fears. That my placement on earth by my Father would be wasted, of sorts. And not used for it’s purpose of benefiting and growing His Kingdom.
but this was an AWESOME post honey! And AMEN to all of it. I want so much...
