Day 4: Fully Committing is Enough

Day 4: Fully Committing is Enough

So it's a Saturday during football season and that mean one thing had definitely happened today. Someone (probably a large number of people) has gotten waaaaaaay too worked up over a football game that has no long lasting implications on their life. I say this to use as an example for the Proverbs passage I read today. For me, the verses talk about God's will.  My summary of the passage is this.... Being engulfed in our worldly ways makes it impossible for us to hear what the will of God is for our lives.  The verses say that if we respond to God, He makes His thought known to us. That's what I get from it at least. I could be wrong.... oh well. My point is simple... Those of us that get so worked up over a silly game to the point where it influences our day, week, spending, and where we spend our time are missing the point of why we are here. God has a purpose for our lives. His will will be done whether I want it to be done or not. He's in control of everything. I think that if more people surrendered these things that overtake their lives, living would just be more enjoyable. I mean Alabama/Auburn/Michigan/LSU football is going to lose eventually. There is no way (unless God wants it to be) that they will win forever. God on the other hand has, will, and will always win. We know the outcome. It's done. God wins. No overtime. No official's review. God wins and anything that is not in agreement with God's will is on the other team. In this case, If you're not first you're lost.

I have read through Genesis before but for some reason it's pretty much a new book for me. I'm seeing the little details that actually mean the most. Today's reading was no different from the others before. *I know this story....blah blah* Then comes the part I don't remember. Water goes bye bye, dove has to fly back & forth a lot, finally land is there. So from there something awesome happens. Noah builds an altar. Realize that he is old as dirt, has been on a boat for an extended period of time, has been with his family non stop for the whole time, and has been kept with so many animals and animal stuff. I would not be happy at this point. Actually, I would be downright upset and the cause of my frustration would be God. I mean He's the one that flooded the earth. Yeah he let me live but he made me stay with animals on a boat... forever. But Noah was a righteous man. He had God's favor. Noah built an altar for God. He was not instructed like he was for the arc. He just did it. That's awesome. A lot of times I know people are waiting for God to tell them exactly what to do when they know what is needed and completely overlook it.  I say all of this to question a part of this text. I see Noah as a righteous man... maybe even one that walks with the Lord. I meant God picked him to keep man alive. So why does Noah die. He was not taken away, he died. Enoch didn't even get picked to start over the human race. Yet, Noah was not with and in God???

The other question I had that just didn't sit well with me is if rainbows remind God of His covenant with man... Does that mean they show up when God is mad at man? But since He sees the rainbow, man is cool.?? I don't know. Just a thought. I'm really tired. This might mean nothing.

The passage in Matthew was by far my favorite. It talks about Jesus beginning to preach as well as his collecting disciples. When Jesus starts preaching, he does not tell people to come to him. He makes the journey to where the people are. Again I think this is a problem with today's Christianity. We expect people to come to us and for them to listen to every word we say. In actuality we should be going out into the world to save people. It should be our desire to GO not collect.  Then Jesus starts to find disciples. I don't know what happened in explicit detail but I do know it was brief. Jesus would call his soon-to-be disciples and they would drop what they were doing and follow. That is either unbelievably awesome or just a coincidence that he met really easily influenced men. I believe that there was just that something different about Jesus that people could see and it made them want to be a part of whatever he was doing. I think that we have the ability as a church to reflect the same "something" to a dying world. The result would be astronomical. Imagine Baptisms by the hundreds, all because we, as a church, went out to the people of the world and showed them Christ in us. Crazy times. Let's do it.

I had a lot more to blog about but I am so flippin tired so I have one more thing. Psalm 4 spoke to me and told me that I need to be happy with the blessings I have. They are so great and my worries so few. People have trouble (myself included) with finding rest in knowing that God is enough and his blessings are enough. We complain and covet so much. These are actions brought upon us by this world. The world teaches us to not be happy until we have everything. The sooner we all realize that we do have everything, the better. SO tired..... Goodnight.

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