Church

Do you ever find yourself acting a certain way around different people? Maybe you don't swear around the girl you like or maybe because you are in church and not school you decide to stop and talk to the kid you don't like. (After all it's church and God is watching) Consider this for a moment. In the Old Testament God's dwelling place was the temple, and that was a sacred place. But when Jesus died on the cross we became the temple of the Holy Spirit. WE are church. Wherever we go God is. Doesn't this just make you stop and think, "What am I doing?” It does me.

Burning Questions

Do you ever just wonder what the heck your doing with life? Where are you going? and Who are you anyway?

Filling up the spaces

One of the steps to becoming closer to God is getting rid of sin. Well that is a bit over simplified I realize, sometimes getting rid of sin takes drastic measures. If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. Or as that may seem over excessive, if watching TV causes you to consider lust, Don't watch TV at all.
Now I got to thinking, (and I'm pretty sure this isn't my original idea..) we work so hard to get rid of the bad stuff in our lives and we think that’s it. But imagine yourself as a container of some sort, and inside is a specific amount of space. Now imagine you just took out some bad stuff, say charcoal. Well that space is still there. If you don't decide what to fill it with, then some other type of coal might come in to fill it up.
In Eph 4 it talks about taking off the old self, but it doesn't stop there, it also says to put on the new self. We have to fill up with God and his love. How do we do this? um Pray and read our Bibles. Now we all know we need to be doing this, but remember that when you get rid of one type of sin, Satin will work extra hard to put another one back in you, so that’s when we really have to buckle down and fill up with God. And don't forget your Armor, we don't want to see people out there spiritually streaking..

Waking up to reality!

Have you ever told yourself something so often that you believe it's true, only to discover at some point what a fool you've been? I realized this weekend that I had been telling myself that I was trusting God with my future when all the time I wasn't trusting him at all. I would say "Well I know that God has a plan for my future and it's a good one and I trust Him." Only to turn around and demand that God tell me what the plan is. I felt that God couldn't really get me to where I was supposed to be; of course he needed me to do that. How silly and arrogant of me huh? It was one of those things that you realize and wonder how you could possibly have missed it. Ah well now I know and I can rely on God's grace to get me through today and let tomorrow worry about itself yes?

Starting Lent

Let me just start by telling you, This has been a terrible week! One of my friends was a jerk on Saturday and it all went downhill from there. Sunday I had a friend bail on me, and I ate way too much sugar. Monday followed with too much sugar. Tuesday I decided I was done with feeling sick because of eating too much gross food, and I ate healty stuff for the most part, except that I had to get in some coffee. Lent started Wednesday and I decided to give up Coffee and Soda this year. Appearently I was more attached than I thought to the caffine, and had a head ache for two days (until I broke down and drank black tea.. not coffee) And through all of this I have been feeling completely down, for no good reason that I could see. About the only time I felt good this week was during Tuesday prayer, and Wednesday service. I have to say that being grumpy that long was really getting to me.
The good news is that I got so fed up yesterday that I called my sister and asked her to pray for me. I told her all about what was going on, and just talking to her helped me feel better, along with some black tea, and dressing up. :) I know that sounds totally lame that dressing up cheered me up but it really did. There is a musical called "Hello Dolly" and they sing a song in there that goes

" Put on your Sunday clothes when you feel down and out. Strut
down the street and have your picture took. Just like a dream
your spirits seem to turn about. That Sunday shine is a certain
sign that you feel as fine as you look. Beneath the parasol the
world is all aglo. It makes you feel brand new down to your toes.
Get out your knickers, your patent leathers, your beads and
buckles and bows, for there's no blue monday in your Sunday
clothes."