Be Prepared

Today's journal entry.

Be Prepared:

God has a plan for my life. I’m pretty sure I know bits and pieces of it. The hardest part for me is to take initiative. The biggest reason for this is I’m not sure what those steps may be. I think we overlook the practical things because we believe God is in control and will take care of us and provide. Although this is true, we still need to be active in our part of the will of God. I will never make an album if I don’t write songs and record them. I will never meet my future wife if I don’t ask out anyone. God can’t show me my new place to live if I don’t go looking for it. We tend to think that if it’s God’s will then everything will be taken care of. So we sit on our ass and wait until God drops his will into our laps. Bad news fellows, this isn’t how it works. It’s easy to fall prey because we want God to be in control and we don’t want to mess up his will for us. The problem is by not doing anything we completely miss his will altogether.

People throughout the bible messed up all the time. Jonah didn’t want to go where God told him to go. He got eaten by whale, spit out, and eventually went where God told him to go. Paul, who wrote most of the new testament, was killing Christians before he got saved. Peter denied Jesus 3 times and he was the one who spoke on the day of Pentecost. It’s better to try and fail then to sit around waiting for something to happen. Nothing will happen if we don’t move. God gives us second chances. Eventually we will get it right. We just need to be active and try.

Becoming Christlike

My journal entry for today.

Be Christlike:

Jesus gave us two great commandments, Love the Lord Your God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength, and Love your neighbor as yourself. The shortest verse in the bible is “Jesus wept”. This means absolutely nothing to anyone out of context. It’s just a dumb fact that we as Christians know because it was taught in Sunday school. Most of us don’t know what this verse means. The context is Lazarus has just died. Jesus is grieved by the death of his friend and his weeping shows the people around him that Jesus loved and cared for Lazarus. Jesus’ ministry is about love. More then the miracles, healings, teachings, and feedings it’s about love and compassion. Everything Jesus did was motivated by a compassion and empathy for the people who needed him. My attempts to become for like Christ will be in vain until I learn to show the same love and compassion the he did.

“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Romans 5:8

Broken Mirrors, Missed Ships

My God
Why can't I accept what I am?
Why must I hate your creation?

So I sit and stare at the mirror in your word
Hoping for a revelation to break this retched curse

But as time goes by it gets harder and harder for me to break through
All the make-up, clothes, and mirrors that I've become attached to.

So I sit and wait and I contemplate
As the beauty of my life drifts further into waste.

And when revaltion finally comes
When I learn to really, truly love
Will the things for me have passed me by
Or will a second change be right behind?