It really got me thinking...how many times have I sat here and thought about those "If only's".
*If only I had a nicer car
*If only I had a high-paying Job
*If only I was older
*If only I had this or that or that or this...If only, If only, If only!
We all do it, and if you're sitting there saying you haven't then you're simply lying to yourself!
God created us! He picked up a pile of dirt and blew on it to createliving, breathing human beings, for goodness sakes! He didn't just do this because he was bored or because he just felt like it, because to follow up our creation he sent down his one and only son, Jesus Christ, and Jesus then died on the Cross for us and all our sinly ways!
Last night my eyes were opened to this: If God created ME, and God allowed his own son to be killed for ME, then clearly he has a plan for ME! So who the heck am I to stomp on that plan by sitting here and saying "This isn't good enough"!?!
We are nobodys and we need to accept this.
I nor you were created by God to be somebody, but rather to KNOW somebody...to know HIM, the creator of the Universe, the lover of all, and to share his wonderful and awesome power and glory with everyone we come into contact with.
Think about it...there is absolutely NOTHING on this earth that God wants or needs. As Javie put it last night "The man is not running on a shortage of i-pads in his heavenly kingdom! Our dude is up there flying on clouds! He has absolutely EVERYTHING, and nothing from this Earth impresses him." <--That could not be more true, yet we sit around collecting and working to aquire all this world has to offer us evne though God says it means NOTHING to him! "
Matthew 6: 19-21 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Why, if the God of the universe already has a plan that will fullfill us beyond all understanding (Phil. 4:6-7 "Do not worry about anything, instead pray about everything. Tell God what you need and thank him for all he has done. Then He will give you a peace that is too wonderful to understand."), do we continue to seek out and hoard all that this world has to offer? Everything the world SAYS it has to offer ends in nothingness...it is all meaning-less to the man upstairs, and if it is meaningless to our God whom watched Satan create these meaningless thoughts and material things, then why in the world should we desire it!?!I know this all seems preachy, but that's really not at all what I'm aiming at, so please hear me out. the message God sent through Javie message hit me on a very personal level, because though I may not have the biggest eye for material things I do have a heart that for years upon years now, has longed for "what I don't have yet". The thing is guys, we have "it". "IT" is HIM...our Dad in the heavens...Jesus Christ the son of God is "IT". Period.
There are no plans, no items, no thoughts of mine or yours or of this world that can even be seen in comparence to HIM.
If you want a life worth living, live for God, with God, and through God all the days of your life. We'll never do all that he asks, but why try NOT to? Follow him, love him, serve him, and let NOTHING be more important than the man himself who brought you hear in the first place, and blesses you with each of your days.
Until next Time:
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?" ~Matthew 16:26
"And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions." ~Luke 12:15
I loved reading your blog! It was very inspirational! :)
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