Looking back.... i mean foward?

So i found myself looking through My dailybooth photos today & I ended up wondering back a year ago. Exactly one year from this day.... & you would never guess...... I was sitting in the exact same spot i am today. 365 days ago i was sitting at the starbucks on McKnight road working on my computer... 3rd table to the left facing the front door.

2/12/10

2/12/11

Isn't it weird how a year can pass and so much changes.... But at times you find your self in the exact same place you were just one year before.

Colossians 4:5-6
Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.


Ephesians 5:15-16
Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.

Ill Take a cheese burger with a side of God.

Today i was reading a book from one of my favorite others, The Book is titled Forgotten God by Francis Chan. To sum the book up it focuses on taking advantage and properly understanding Gods promises to us humans. There was one thing Francis talked about that really stood out to me, It was the topic of a real relationship. I was hit pretty hard with this chapter. I mean i have always understood that it was important for us to have God in our lives, but really stop and ask your self why?

Francis quotes a christian author that i feel is very relevant to this question.
"When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the lord can five us an answer. But how can he give us an answer when we are still supplied with all sorts of answer of our own" - Karl Brath-

I find that most of us desire God for selfish reasons. For example, I often find myself asking God for something that will better me as a person, but i don't take into consideration how that might better his name. Our relationship with the Lord becomes almost selfish. God desires a personable, trust worthy, & devoted relationship. Do you ever stop to think about Gods feeling or even if he has them? According to the bible God created us in his image. So if you take a good look at humanity and our characteristics you can start to understand God a little better on a more personal level. Now next time you are thinking about smoken that weed drugs remember that God has feelings and you are hurting them as you do so!

Now a relationship with God needs to be less personal and more God centered! We need to allow our self to be moved by the lord. God has called us to be his people… God… The creator of the universe! He called you to be his chosen one! So according to the bible that means we need to take our relationship with him further then a prayer every night before we go to sleep. God desires to be your personal friend.

Now if you feel you would like to learn more on how to better your relationship with Christ, I recommend reading this book. The name was Forgotten God by Francis Chan. Just pick it up and start reading, It will change your life for the better.

So I hope this blog has inspired you to go out and peruse God and take advantage of what he has offered to you as a Christian.

God bless and Thanks for reading!

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt
you at the proper time, casting all your anxiety upon Him, because He cares for you.
1 Peter 5:6-7

If God loves us.....

I had a question on my last blog post and i felt i should focus on that for today. Being that it is one of the most difficult questions for Christians to answer i will try my hardest to make sense of this.

First things first is that the world isn't as God planned for it to be. If you read through Genesis Originally when God created the world everything was good ( Read through Genesis 1:1-31). and as you continue reading you will understand that Suffering in the world is a result of human kind turning away from God = our relationship with God turned to poop. This was the fall of man or As many people know as the story of Adam and Eve (that was the start at least)

Now God is just and will not allow this rebellion to last forever, every human being and the world itself is under God’s judgment, and will continue to decay and go wrong until God ends it one day. He wants everyone to understand the state of things and so uses our circumstances (including suffering) to makes us aware that the world is not as it should be. He wants us to turn back to him and be reconciled.

So God, because of his love, has done something about the suffering in this world. He has sent Jesus to die for us. Jesus was God’s son, he was a perfect man, who did not deserve God’s punishment, and yet he took our punishment by suffering and dying a most unjust death on the cross. The book of the Bible called First Peter tells us that “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God.” (1 Peter 3:18)

And after having suffered and died for us, Jesus was raised back to life, and when he returns, the world as we have it now will end. Those who believe in Jesus will enter a new world where there will be no tears and no suffering.

So this is a very simply outline of just some of the things the Bible talks about suffering, and is by no means complete. The main thing to understand is that suffering comes from our selfishness and rejection of God, we as a human race has bring it upon ourselves, and we and our world are also under God’s just punishment because of this. But this is not going to last. God loves us dearly and has already suffered himself in order to bring us out of this suffering world. We have a choice to accept this gift from God, or to persist in our selfishness and remain under the punishment of God.

If you would like to look into this issue further, there is a very good book I can recommend, called If I were God, I’d end all the Pain by John Dickson. It is a very short book that goes through how different religions respond to suffering and explains why the christian message gives a satisfactory answer in light of this.

Hope this will help.

For we know that all things work together for good to them that love God,
to them who are called according to His purpose
Romans 8:28