I was driving my grandparents Cadalac Deville on the interstae this past weekend when I had an interesting experience. The Cadalac is much BIGGER and looser than my 87 Volvo 760 which I drive almost antime I go somewhere, so when I got on the interstate and was trucking along at 70 mph, a Tractor trailer passed me and the wind shook my car rather violently. For a relatively new driver (less than a yr. with licence) this was a rather scarry experience especially since I was driving a unfamiliar car. I started thinking later and realised that that is how it is with God he is much BIGGER than what we are used to and so when we get on board with him it can be a pretty scarry experience because when we turn control over to God he allows us to maintain our free will and sometimes we will make a choice that may cause god to shake things up a bit and when God who is so much BIGGER than we are starts shaking it can be pretty crazy and can scare us pretty bad. But we need to remember that God is in control and has a plan we may just need shaken up a bit time to time.
Archive for January, 2008
Bigger Than Ourselves
What Do You Intend?
It’s Wednesday and i am listening to the almost and reading Velvet Elvis while I reflect on the past few days, when believe it or not I leep coming back to one event or should I say series of events. I found out today that a couple people had been fixing the vote on Music videos I play each week for our youth group to vote on while I had suspected this I wanted to believe otherwise so I was I guess unnecessarily disappointed to find out that my assumptions were correct. When I learned this the first thing I did was start thinking of ways to get back at the culprits so I promptly decide not to count the votes and then threw them away. I also planned to not play any rap videos the next week because it was the rap video that was being set up as the winner. This brings us back to the here and the now while I am reflecting and thinking about my intentions in punishing the cheaters which without to much thought can be said to be revengewhich is a natural tendency God gave to help us survive and has its place but when we live in a fallen world we all mess up and while this could easily be justified I decided that an examination of my intentions was in order so I did and have since changed my course of action slightly form what I had planned and whatever my course of action my be it is purely for the fun of it and not for revenge as it would have been before. Some may say that I am still out of line, and still others may say that I had no need to change my course of action but I feel that I did and am now following a course of action that will result in a good time had by all I hope.
(P.S. Beware C.S. and M.P.)
So close but very different
I watched Amazing Grace last night and realised that the words passion and compassionare are only 3 letters apart. With this realisation another realisation that we often emphasize passion in our leaders but compassionhas very little value placed on it when in reality these two are very similar. Just something to consider since we are in an election year.
Hey guys as I write this on Sunday night i am listening to The Almost and reflecting on my weekend. As I am reflecting my mind keeps coming back to a single conversation, one I don’t remember much about other than hearing several of you saying things like “life sucks” or “I just want to get to heaven…”. As I was thinking about these and other statements made in the course of this conversation I remember being filled with a feeling of great sadness at the lack of value you seemed to be placing on the blessing you have been given to live on the Earth which wile it my be corrupted is still Gods creation and serve God with the gifts he has given you. I remember not to long ago when I felt the same way I believe you do now I soon came to realize that instead of dwelling on the “evil” in the world I should think about the blessings and use my time here to serve God and worship Him after all we were “Created to worship”. So to sum it up I beg you to reconsider your attitude and embrace each moment God has given you as an opportunity to serve God and remind someone else that they should be looking forward to heaven as a time when I believe we will be partying the days away because we are filled with the joy of knowing and experiencing God in a way we can’t even begin to imagine while we serve Him on Earth.
