Random Thoughts
Lately I have been having this feeling that there is so much more to my life as a follower of Christ. For so long my main goal in life was follow God, obey and then all my problems will be fixed but I have got it wrong. They wont be fixed probably they will get worse. It will get harder and harder because the path is narrow and few will find it. For a long time in my life I had it all. I had money, a nice house, fancy car, awesome job then we lost it all in one minute. I still had my job but Aaron didn’t and we had to move back to my home town, Conway, and rent a trailer from my parents. I was so depressed for so long we went from having everything to nothing so it seemed. It was all part of a plan that was to big for me to understand. I am just now starting to see it unfold and it’s been 4 years. I know it has taken this long because of my own selfishness. I spent so long praying that God would get us out of here and in a better house, any house was better than this trailer I thought! My prayers were self seeking and shallow. How could I have been so blind? I thought I lost all the important things but it isn’t so. In 3 years we will have our trailer completely paid off. We have no car payments only some small bills we are trying to get paid off. God was setting it up so when the time comes we will have the freedom to do his will. It only took so long because we were to focused on ourselves to see what was going on. I think that we are not the only ones who have been blinded by this. The church today is preaching the American dream. We are molding Jesus to fit our life style instead of see what His life was really like.
How do we fix this and where do I go from here?
Speak and Believe
“I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself in the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him,”
Mark 11:23 NIV
These words are from Jesus Himself!!! How awesome is it that He gave us power over the enemy. All we have to do is speak and believe. I think that a lot of Christians today forget this power. They get lost in all the negative and forget to speak the positive. Satin loves to blind us to the power that has so freely been giving to the Followers of Christ. Mark 16:17-18 says that “in my name they shall cast out devils”, CAST OUT DEVILS!!!! Think about this for a second….if we can cast them out doesn’t that really mean we have authority over them and if we have authority over them then they can do NOTHING to us. Stop being a powerless Christian and tell Satin to go back where he came from.
Take care of yourself!
Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received [as a Gift] from God? You are not you own, you were bought with a price [purchased with a preciousness and paid for, made His own]. So then, honor God and bring glory to Him in your body.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Amplified
As I read this scripture I realized all the bad things that I put in my body. This is talking about your physical body. God has giving the most awesome gift and then we just run around not taking care of it! If we don’t take care of our body how can the Holy Spirit ever use us to our fullness. I want to be used so badly but what if I have been holding myself back just because I don’t take the time to exercise or make smart choices about the food I put in my mouth. Is 30 minutes a day really to hard? I guess for me it has been. I have put way to much on my plate but today I am making a change. I am making my temple a priority.
