Look for God, even in the litle things.

We all know how great God is and how big and powerful he is. how he sent Jesus to die on the cross for us and was the ultimate sacrifice. So much that there is nothing we can bring as a sacrifice that will please God. Sometime's it's just nice to see God in his creations on earth. We are always so busy with the world weather it be school or life and never take the time out to just look around and see what God has made for us. How many mornings do we wake up complaining about how early it is and how tired you are and instead just look outside and see the sun that God has given us to keep us warm or nature that is so in balance. I might sound like a tree hugger right now but all those were created by God and have a part of him.

Walking alone or walkign with him?

Being a Christian, our walk with God is very important but how many times do we try to do it ourselves? God is right by our sides and he knows our struggles and weaknesses and is holding his hand out to help us. Yet so many times we ignore him and try to do things ourselves. How many times has God reached out to us and said take my hand and i will guide you but we try to do it ourselves and push him away. That's kinda opposite of what we are trying to do. We want to build a relationship with God and grow closer to him so we must seek him that much more and take his hand when he reaches out to us. Walk with God together.

How much longer till we are content

Greed is evident in every part of our lives and in the world that surrounds us. Money talks in the world and for those who do not know God, that's all they live for. More money, more cars ,more women ,more power and it never seems to satisfy their need for more. For those who do claim to be Christian, we are also guilty of this, me especially. I always want more or even just things that I don't have and during those times of greed I somehow forget that everything that I try so hard to get will just be of no value to me in a few years. When will I be able to realize that everything that I have is from Jesus and he himself is all that I need and he is the only thing that will last for eternity. Contentment frees the heart but my heart is still in shackles.

surrender and praise

During my devotion today, it got me thinking to why we live the way we do. Why push away lust? Why sacrifice our time and money for others who sometimes don't deserve it? Why do we live our lives so differently from the world? The simple answer is because it pleases God but is that the real reason we act the way we do? Do we only do good in the eyes of others but when we're all alone and there's no one there to see us sin and disobey God, do we act differently? I sure hope not. The person we are at church should be the person we are wherever we go. We need to FULLY surrender our lives to God and not just fool people to think that we are.

Gotta get back on track

Wow I just realized how much I've been slacking recently, both academically, spiritually and physically. Haven't blogged in over a week, devos have become less and less, can't study to save my life, haven't worked out in a while and I missed church today for the first time for as long as i can remember. Sometimes it takes falling so far and just looking at your life to realize that all you can do is go to God for help and that he's the only thing that's gonna last. My body will die in the end and 90% of the stuff i learn in school will be completely useless to me once I get in the working world. My faith however is the only thing that will carry over to heaven. So it's time for me to get back on track and rebuild my faith and have everything else fall second to God.

We should know our place

During our usual Wednesday night prayer meeting, the message really spoke to me and made me realize how out of line we are. We call ourselves servants of God but if i had a servant and he acted the way I do, i would replace him immediately. That is the thing that makes God so great and worthy of serving. He loves us and still allows us to serve him even thought that what we bring to him is near worthless. We are all replaceable by God and time and time again we fail God's demand yet he still chooses to love us and give us another chance. In the end we will all fall short but God will still love us. So in return during the time we have here on earth, we should act like the servants we say we are and fully submit to God. We can only serve one master.

God always provides

I admit that I am a materialistic person and I love my name brands and love nice things that I can definitely live without yet I somehow dare to ask god for more. Then I hear about people who don't even have a house to live in or parents who can support them or they don't even know where their next meal is coming from. Even though all that, they manage to stay faithful and praise God through it all because they know that everything they have is from God and that God will always take care of his people.

so blessed yet so lazy

As I sit at my computer at 3am because I took too long of a nap earlier today, I had the time to reflect and just see how blessed I am and yet how lazy I've become. In high school I would wake up everyday at 6:30 rain or shine and go to school for 6 hours straight and then do sports for 3 more hours after school. Now I can barely get up for my 9:30 classes and I complain about waking up for church and leaders meeting. Sometimes I just need to remind myself that I should be thankful that I have a church to go to and be able to become a leader.

Good guys and Bad guys

There are many people in this world and there's always going to be someone that just rubs you the wrong way. That person who disagrees with you or just comes off as a prick. The person who is extremely stubborn and selfish. It is so easy to just completely ignore those people and block them out of your life. That is the easy way out and sadly, that's how I think most of the time. My mentality all my life is that I don't have to take crap from anybody and that I am my own boss other than God obviously. I've always been rebellious to my parents and other people to a certain extent where I am extremely firm in my beliefs and views. So whenever I meet someone new and I find something that I don't like about them, chances are that you won't ever see me talking or interacting with that person ever again. However, during my devotion today, i was reminded that when Jesus came to the world, he loved everyone, not just the people who worshiped him. He hung out with all the people that were rejected from society and hated by everyone. It's going to be hard to change my ways of thinking and giving other people a second chance or a third but I claim to be a Christian so mow I must act the part and show the love that God has shown me onto others.