There are many times when I "ponder" what is going on in the world. It always seems to me like the world is getting more and more evil, with all of the talk of homosexuality, war, economic recession, adultery, violence, and more. The earth is definitely on the downward spiral. That being said, Christians aren't getting more and more "holy." We seem to not be getting more evil, we are just "more of the same." When we struggle in life, we just seem to plow through and try to handle it ourselves; we also manage to squeeze through things and think "if my like is going alright, then i guess i am alright with God." How much further from the truth can this be? I stand on the promise that the only way we know that we are doing "alright" with God is if our life isn't doing alright, meaning that the Devil is throwing fiery darts at us; he is trying to divert us from living for Christ whole-heartedly.
I know this is true because whenever I am having one of those 'average" kinda weeks, it means that i haven't been spending enought time with Jesus. Come on, when did Jesus ever have one of those "average" kinda weeks, or when did Paul ever have one of those 'average" kinda weeks? It never happened, because they were always trying to be one step ahead of the Devil. We are actually on the oppostire end right now because it seems that instead of trying to stop what the Devil is doing, we are always reacting to what he has already done. When will we see that we can be in tune with Jesus and begin to prevent attacks instead of deal with them.
God already knows what is going to happen, and he already knows what is going to become of us. yet daily we get to choose our life's path, either into destruction or into "freedom." Today, let's take a stand for diving into "life" with Jesus and not just "hours" with Jesus and find out how we can truly defeat the Devil before we have another "average" kinda week doing nothing for God.
I don't ever claim to have all of the answers, but I do know how to find them. If you don't know how, just come ask me.
P-Mike
Monday, December 8, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Have you been working out?
This should challenge you to look at your life in a completely different way.
Think about it like this: Say I went to go to the gym 4 hours a day and worked out with weights and got really ripped and strong. You would see me as a force, right? I might even flex my muscles around the gym and show everyone how strong I am. But then let's say my friend needed someone to move a dresser for her because they weren't strong enough to do it; and they called me because i appear to be strong and capable of the task. But instead, i call upon someone else to do the work. What's the point? It seems that all of that weight-lifting was pointless and that I should have been spending my time doing something else. Connection: so many Christians have been working out in the spiritual gym, building nice spiritual muscles, even flexing them around the church (sorry, i meant to say gym), but then when it comes time to use those muscles, they tense up and get a pull or a cramp and suddenly can't use those muscles to do the job. What am i trying to say? Why even go to the gym (church) and work out if you arent going to use those muscles for something that really matters (reaching the lost). Why even serve God and get all spiritually pumped-up if you aren't going to take that power and use it for good. Stop scooping ice-cream with those massive biceps and start moving dressers (start changing lives with those spiritual muscles.)
Talk to me about this; i could have gone on for hours talking this away. I want your input, or if you don't understand, i can explain it to you. Let me know; would this be a good sermon coming up soon???
Think about it like this: Say I went to go to the gym 4 hours a day and worked out with weights and got really ripped and strong. You would see me as a force, right? I might even flex my muscles around the gym and show everyone how strong I am. But then let's say my friend needed someone to move a dresser for her because they weren't strong enough to do it; and they called me because i appear to be strong and capable of the task. But instead, i call upon someone else to do the work. What's the point? It seems that all of that weight-lifting was pointless and that I should have been spending my time doing something else. Connection: so many Christians have been working out in the spiritual gym, building nice spiritual muscles, even flexing them around the church (sorry, i meant to say gym), but then when it comes time to use those muscles, they tense up and get a pull or a cramp and suddenly can't use those muscles to do the job. What am i trying to say? Why even go to the gym (church) and work out if you arent going to use those muscles for something that really matters (reaching the lost). Why even serve God and get all spiritually pumped-up if you aren't going to take that power and use it for good. Stop scooping ice-cream with those massive biceps and start moving dressers (start changing lives with those spiritual muscles.)
Talk to me about this; i could have gone on for hours talking this away. I want your input, or if you don't understand, i can explain it to you. Let me know; would this be a good sermon coming up soon???
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