Daily thoughts and experiences from my mind and life.
God @ Work
Your Attention Please…
May 15th
(Exodus 3:1-5) So God used a burning bush to get Moses attention. What does He use today to get our attention. I’m reminded of something a pastor said recently, “can we hear God’s whisper in this loud world?”, can we? The world that we live in is definitely busier and louder than in Biblical times. It took a burning bush even then to get Moses attention. Are we ready and willing to hear the whisper of God as He speaks to us?
One of my favorite songs right now is “Praise You in This Storm” and part of the chorus goes:
As the thunder rolls, I barely hear your whisper through the rain, “I’m with you”
That thunder is the things of this world, and the things we deal with in our lives that are shouting at us and drowning out God’s whisper. We are in such need of times of quiet, to get away from the busyness of life, so that we can be in a place to hear God’s voice.
God can use a lot of things to get our attention though. At times it seems that He usually attempts to get our attention most when hardship comes. I Do Not imply that all of our hardships are coming from God, actually God is not the one that makes hardships happen, rather He allows us to face hardships that are a result of a fallen world. Perhaps it is more a result of us realizing that we have a need for God during those hard times? When we can get through is on our own, or on the strength of those around us, where else is there to turn but God? It is however very sad that at times that is what it takes for us to come to Him. He desires to have a daily relationship, and walk, with us. Then again we so easy fall into the loud noise of this world. We get easily distracted when things seem to be going smoothly for us. God desires to share with us the goods times as well, not just the hard times.
Everything In It’s Time
May 7th
For me as a Christian, it seems that one of the things I struggle with most is leaving things in God’s hands. I don’t know if part of my struggle is because I’m a man, and I feel the uncontrollable urge to fix things and have eveything planned out. When I don’t know God’s plan, and how can any of us know it really, I realize I fall into the sin of worry. I think it’s probably the worst when I truly desire to leave my life in God’s hands and trust in His plans for it. It think we too, I know I do, fail in having the secret desire of want God’s will for our lives to be what we desire. Above all, I most desire that my will be His, that what I desire is what He would have me desire.
Most people now know that I’m looking to move to Michigan, and one of the big reasons is of course Vanessa. I have been so blessed by my relationship with Vanessa that I want to see where it will lead. I really feel that being closer will only help to strengthen our relationship and help us to get to know each other even better. One of the key struggles here is that when I move needs to be in God’s hands and timing. I don’t want to fall into pushing my own desires ahead of God’s perfect timing.
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What Has Today Brought?
Apr 3rd
I’d haveto say that all-in-all it was a decent day. I would have preferred to get a bit farther along in my data-entry, I spent a good portion of the day generating mailing lists. I would have to say that about the best parts of today were getting up early and having some good devotion time and breakfast before I headed off to work. I think both of those things have proven to make my mornings more productive. This evening wasn’t too bad. I didn’t get quite as much accomplished tonight as I had hoped but I did manage to have a rather tasty steak and potato supper, I also began creating an actual budget I hope to be sticking by. This was a huge eye opener. I didn’t realize how much I sort of relied on the side jobs I always seem to be getting, I thank God for knowing what I need. I’m pretty sure I’m going to have to cut out one additional trip home this month, and I’m still not certain how I’m going to pay for everything when I head out to MI. I’ve pretty much figured I’ll be sticking to a lunch of popcorn for quite some time. I’ll probably have to bring back the glory days of Ramen as well. I’m fortunate that I’ve got a good supply of meat that should get me by for quite some time. Gotta get myself some of the other dirt cheao meals like oatmeal & pancakes. It’s not like I can’t stand to lose a few pounds anyways, so it’s not all bad.
So, of course my whole life isn’t revolving around money. Well, what else consumed my evening? I ran over to my boss’s house for a bit to help him get
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What’s The Latest?
Mar 17th
Well, so what ever happened to the daily wisdom that I would bring to this thing they call the internet or blog-o-sphere? Well, sometimes life just makes a lot of demands on our time that we just can’t do anything about. Today I managed to finally get the new Faith & Fellowship Bookstore website online. This has been a long awaited task. There are some features that still need to be put in place but things changed along the way that will cause those things to require a different approach.
On the personal front, things between Vanessa and I got all straightened out Monday night. It was a rather mixed up mess that we got ourselves in but it was definitely a growing point in our relationship, and it utlimately brought us closer together. Thanks for the prayers and support.
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