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.