Thoughts and Reflections

Good Morning and Happy Wednesday....   I feel great today. What is God doing in my life???? Who knows? Not I (entirely),but I can rest in the fact that He knows exactly what he is doing. So I had sent out an e-mail to family from my new e-mail address that I am migrating to. If you did not get it and are reading this I am sorry. I do not have a current e-mail for you. If you want you can let me know what it is and I will gladly add you.   So here is the jst of what is going on. For a couple years now I have been running.... arguing with God about Bible College. This past Sunday I gave in. I surrendered to His will and said if He wants me there, I will go. The only "criteria" is that my pastor would have peace about me going. I believe that is exactly what God would have me do. Follow the guidence of Him and my spiritual leader. So, I have actually felt pretty good about the whole thing. In my mind I am like "well we are already having garage sales and selling st...

God is good. That is about all I can really say. It sums up a lot of what has been happening in my life these first four months of the new year. I cannot believe how much He can change you in this amount of time. I will be honest here, I am a sinner just like everyone else. What makes me different is that I am saved by the grace of God through the crucifiction, death, burial, and ressurection of Jesus Christ. The acceptance of that it was all for me is the "hope of my salvation". I have not attained anything..... yet. That is a future goal. I am once again looking forward to church. I am enjoying being involved with RU (Reformers Unanimous) more and more. I dread having to go to the work place because there is no spiritual "safety" there. BUT God has control and right now He sees fit for me to be here. I have stumbled in my testimony because of my unruly flesh, but that is okay. God knows and is helping me. Today was an interesting thought that He brought to my...

So 2011 has come and gone. 2012 has just begun. A fesh new start for a new year. What is in the past is in the past. It can have no affect on the future unless I let it. Keep the mind on today and plan for tomorrow. No point in looking back and wishing something was different. Take each day one step at a time. If you trip and fall..... you have a choice. Lay there in your sin or GET UP brush yourself off, accept you are still a sinner by nature. Thank God once again for already forgiving you of your sin and ask Him to help you over-come it (by name). Then...... move on. God has forgiven and forgotten it and with His help you can "put it from you" as well. Laterz....

So had another revelation this moring while reading Colossians 3:19 "Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them." Okay great I get it.... love my wife, simple enough to understand..... Be not bitter against them.... okay so do not hold a grudge against them because they have more friends or are more outgoing.... HMM, no peace on that thought? So what does He mean here? I had no peace on my "definition" for the word bitter used in this verse. So much so that I finally scrounged around and found our dictionary. Was not to hard to find. I mean it is the size of a small brick.... ANYWAYS..... So I looked up the word bitter and here is what  I found: 1. Sharp. or biting in taste: acrid; like wormwood . 2. Sharp; cruel; severe; as bitter enmity . 3.  Sharp, as words; reproachful; sarcastic.    4.  Sharp to the feeling; piercing; painful; that makes to smart; as a bitter cold day, or a bitter blast.   5. Painful to the mind; calamitous; po...

Okay, the title includes myself..... seriously.... So for some reason sleep was not allowed last night.... I finally gave up and crawled out of bed at 4AM and started getting ready for work. Was not a big deal because it gave me more time to read my Bible. I was able to read through all of Ephesians. So many of us know that Ephesians 5 talks to wives and husbands. As a man the first verses I would love to focus on are Ephesians 5:22-24. Preach to those wives....... but then I looked at the rest of the chapter... God used Paul to talk to the wives in three verses. He then spent the next 9 verses (Ephesians 5:25-33) speaking to the men. HHMM, wonder who needs the most help?? So it got me to thinking. The verses talk of how God gave himself for the church. Well, who is the church? Lets break it down. What is a church really? The church is made up of Christians. What is a christian? People (sinners) who have accepted the death, burial, and ressurection of Jesus Chri...

Well let's see..... been days since I posted anything and much has actually happened. But I am at a loss for what to really say. Like you all I have good days and bad days. I hate to admit it sometimes but it sure seems like my bad days outnumber my good days. I can only assume that I am not the only one who feels that way. Moving on....... So been reading and I have been shown another issue of life that I have taken up as a "habit". Scornful... Hard to admit a sin sometimes, but then again if we do not confess them God cannot do a work in our life to help us overcome them now can He? I was not at all "surprised" by this revelation. To be honest I think God has been tying to point it out to me for some time now. But of course being human I either ignored Him or would not accept it as being a problem I had. However, when I was reading Proverbs 22:10, I was shown what else God could work on in my life if I would only confess and forsake this particular sin in m...

So today I had a kind of epiphany. WE choose how things affect us daily, if not hourly or by the minute. Just like everyone else in the world, I have events, comments, attitudes, and people who get on my nerves or upset me. Make me frustrated or angry even. Pretty dumb that today on my way to work I got thinking about it. It dawned on me that I was choosing how it all affected me. Sure it is easy to get upset with people when they do not do what you think they should or would like them to. It's just as easy to ignore the times you do not meet your own expectations for yourself. So my thought was, if I can ignore/forgive myself for my failings, why can't I just as easily forgive others. Answer?  MY PRIDE!!! Duh.. I wanted something to be done the way I wanted or wanted to be able to do what someone else got to do instead of them. Pretty much placing myself as the most important. Sigh, so much time lost to stewing over the issues instead of saying "Meh, it dosen't real...