Wonderful

A lot has happened since I last posted here. I have gotten married to the love of my life, started a new program at a new school, HR management at Ashford University.

I have been so blessed by the King of Kings and Lord of ALL! I cannot cram all that He has done into this little post because He has done so much for me and my wife.

I love God so much and yet I am so feeble. I am so small compared to God and sadly sometimes I am ok with that.

I recently read a book titled “Christian Atheist”. It is a book about Christians who live as if God did not exist. It is so sad that we as Christians can live like He does not exist in our lives or sometimes as if He doesn’t exist at all. He does though!!

God is here and working so much! I want to live as I should, a Christ-like individual that worships Him endlessly and spreads His word like I should! God is so abundantly wonderful, why do we live each day as if we plan it? Why do I act as if He is second and I am first? He is the alpha and omega! He is the King of all kings! Let us live thinking that He is who He says He is, not who we think He is or who we think He should be, because we do that a lot.

Who is first in your life?

Been A While!!!

It sure has been a while since I have visited this page, a lot going on and all.  I may have even forgot I had a blog, but you will never know

 

Seize the Day!  Today is a new day and we are given the gift of waking up and breathing.  Simple, yes!  We take the simplicity of waking up for granted because it happens everyday!!  What is the first thing you do when you wake up?  Brush your teeth?  Shower??  Neither!?

 

I would like to say that every morning when I wake up I pray, but that is not true all the time.  Yes, there are some mornings when I pray as soon as my eyes open, but I don’t do it enough.  I would like to take hold of each day by praying to God, thanking Him that I am given the gift of another day!!  Which are not promised by any means because we have no control over what happens minute by minute, only God does.

 

Seize the day every morning by praying and thanking God!

 

On another note I got my P90X® workout in the mail today!!  I did the first days routine and wow, this is going to be an intense 90 days.  The reason I am doing this workout is because I am to be a good steward, as a Christian, of what God gives me.  Whether that be finances, blessings, and/or my body.  I want to get into shape so that I may be a better vessel for God.

Where is the love?

It dawned on me today that our culture does not love. We harbor hatred and we judge. We say we love God but do we know what and who He is? I will be the first to say that I had no clue. Still learning actually, and that is what in essence life is, once we find out what life is supposed to be. Life is a journey, always will be. The journey is love, God’s love. It is not success or fame or fortune, it is based on the absolute fact that God made us in His image for His pleasure and glory. With sin in our lives it hinders us from pursuing God like we should, and sometimes not at all. What a sad life, that we not follow the lover of us who made us. What a joy, on the other hand, to finitely grasp the concept that God’s unconditional love, that we do not deserve nor have anyway of getting on our own, he extends to us so that we may live in a peace unlike any other peace that we would or could get here in this world. It is time to take the gloves off, so to speak. To finally become a people, a Christian people, that love God with their soul. Not just thinking we love God, but actually showing it in a manner that would persuade others to think: “Wow, that person has something, I need that joy, that peace in my life.” We need to grasp onto the fact that we were not placed on this earth for ourselves, but for God. We need to understand that nothing can fill us up like God can. Nothing can complete us like a fellowship with our creator. God’s infinite grace is extended to all those who seek it, love poured out on those who follow after Him, mercy given to those in trials under His watch, conviction given to those children who are wayward and God wants back, punishment to those who do wrong in God’s sight and He wants you to know it, forgiveness to those who genuinely seek it, salvation to those who believe and give their lives away to please God. Do not sit idle and think you are in God’s will, do not think for a second that just sitting on the sideline will be a good life to live, a life we are called to. We are called to action, otherwise His love is foolish, which it most certainly is not. Live God everyday, seek God everyday, love God everyday.

Where do we go?

Through my whole life, I have been struggling with things to do. Where do I go, what do I do, and who do I do those things with. I’ve always been motivated to do something, but never really knew where or what that was.

After being born again at Liberty University in 2006, and through the years struggling to even know what God was, and how He works in our lives. I know that what I was feeling was the call of God. It was Him who was calling me, but my heart was not in a place to hear Him, nor was my mind in the right place to hear His calling.

Through recent seasons in my life, I realize that God is putting a calling on my life to serve. To get involved and be absolutely selfless to His will and His call. While the calling itself might be different, I feel that we are all called to God. From the moment we are born God has a plan for us. What hinders that plan is us!!!

We get so wrapped up in our own lives and involved in this world, we never hear His call or take action on what He has in store for us. We are given a free-will to do as we choose and He wants us to choose Him!!

The hardest part of being a christian, for me, is to give up myself daily and follow after Him. How hard it is to give up this world and yourself when we are told to do what makes us feel good by this world’s standards.

My conclusion is that the opportunities given by God will far outweigh those given by ourselves or even this world. It is hard to give up things we know, to get out of our comfort zone and actually move to action through God’s will.

I think the problem lays in surrender, ultimate surrender to His will. We keep things in our hearts that should not be there, that God would not have there, and that blocks some of what God might be trying to say or teach us in our lives. The key is a pure heart and living in a holy manner that would envelope us in God and nothing but God’s will.

We are far better off with God than we would be apart from Him!!!

I realize now that God does not want us to lay to the wayside and just watch, He wants us to take action and get involved. He would like us to change the world for the kingdom of God. To give up this world and surrender to His call on our lives.

All can enjoy the splendors of our Lord. All can inherit the kingdom of God and enter into the Heavens gates. All can have a joy filled, satisfying life in Christ. We need not this world to be satisfied. We can have the living water to quench us, eternal joy to envelope us, and to have an ever satisfying life in God.

How many people do we see hurting but we see they have much. How would it feel to have a peace when we have nothing? To know that even when we enter life’s storms that we have be happy and know that we will be provided for? To know that when no one else is there, God is right there?

A relationship with Christ provides all those things and so much more. Christ’s love was so profound that He gave His life for us. He died on a cross, an agonizing death, so that we might have a gateway to eternal life with God in His kingdom!! We do not have to life in eternal damnation, we do not have to live in solitude, anger, fear, depression, or anything like that, because His raising from the dead conquered death for us!!  We do NOT have to die in our sins, here on earth or for eternity!!

Won’t you take this priceless gift of God? Won’t you surrender yourself to a higher purpose? Surely this life is short, live it to the fullest every single day for our Lord and Savior!!!

Change

One of my latest posts on my facebook was “It is SO hard to stand firm, when the weight of the world is on your shoulders…” while this is true, I think i wrote that in a context a christian should not have.

I was literally thinking of Isaiah 7:9b-If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all.

Let me explain, I recently lost my job and am floundering for money to pay rent and get food and obviously pay my other bills. This is probably the hardest time I have ever undergone, I know it is.

Not only was I fired, I feel I was not given the opportunity to explain myself, that is besides the point because things happen for a reason, we just need to seek that out.

Lately, I have been NOTHING in my spiritual walk with the Lord, just feeling sorry for myself and blaming God. I hate to admit it but I feel that i should because I was rash in my blame, rash in my anger.

God has really been putting the pressure on me, not in a bad way, just so I have no where to turn except to Him, it kind of sucks that it came to that, but a good thing that He cares so much to do what He has been.

When I talk to people I am so down and just feeling sorry for myself and want the pity as well, things are changing now.

I had to pray hard, I cannot live like this because I know that God has a plan for my life, and what am I going to sit back and let that pass because I got fired? NO!!! I am going to suck it up, chalk it on my experience board and find what God has for me.

God is more than fair with us, and I really wanted to write this to show that no matter what happens in our lives, good or bad, it needs to be given to God. Especially when things go worse than normal, give it to God and realize that God IS in control, no matter what.

I am sad that it took me this long to realize it, but am so happy that I am learning this, and definitely something I can use in the future to help others in hard times and dark times.

This is a storm for me, storms pass and blue skies are beautiful. God is gracious and just. Draw near to Him and He will draw nearer to you. It is time I realize that and do it!!!

Thank you Lord for your never changing character, love, and grace! How can we live life without the one who created and sustains us?? I know I cannot and I am seeking Him now!!