I know what I want:

I want a simple Christ-centered life.

One that is constant.

I don't want a loud relationship;

but one that people notice and admire.

I want ot live in the way Jesus intended.

That includes helping the poor and the weak.

I understnad that I am not going to understand God,

or why He does what He does.

But one day, He will explain it to me, and I will say..

"that is why You are Holy."

.. now i just need to figure out how.

Just Another Isrealite ...

I am beginning to realize I sure do identify with the Old Testament Isrealites. For some reason they seem more real to me then most people in the church today. One moment they know that God is there God, THEE God. And the next moment, they have forgotten and are worshipping whatever trend comes up next. Forgetting who they are and becoming those around them. I think I fall into this oh too often. Times in my life when I am totally on fire for God, and then I forget, and get involved in me, and what I want.

But all through the times where the Isrealites fall away, God is still there. He waits patiently for them to return. How can He stand to watch? Jealously raging at His people forgetting Him. Forgeting there creator. I think the worst part is, we know this, and we don’t care.

A Different Perspective

This is from an email devotional by Chris Weirsma, I found it to be quite thought provoking and refreshing.



Once in every life…
It would be good to lose everything we have in order to discover the true value of things (or lack thereof). Only those who’ve experienced loss can be unafraid of it.

Every one of us needs to have our dreams die so we can learn our life does not subsist in them. Rather, they are the “trinkets” and “candies” of thought.

Once in every life, we must stand on our ideas, alone, to see that they are the things which drive the universe.

Every person needs an enemy. The fight makes the outcome more meaningful.

It is good to listen to someone else’s story as though it’s the only story we’ve ever heard. To be completely lost in someone else’s tale is the only way outside ourselves.

We need our hearts deeply broken so we can begin to wonder what it’s like to be God.

It is appointed unto each of us to die so we can know what living really is.

I hope this might change the way you look at loss…

Grace...

"Start with Grace"

That was what one of my friends said last night. Every person you meet, just start the relationship with grace. I think thats something we don't do, we always prejudge people. How are we to show Christ's love when we immediately look down on someone? It also reminds me of one of my friends, he got 70 x 7 tatooed on his wrist (although it was all cool in greek and had a cool design) to remind him anytime he met someo eand went to shake there hand, that he should immediately forgive them for any future transgressions. (sheesh, transgressions, what a christianese word.)

Anyways, wouldn't it be revolutionary if we all treated eachother that way? Immediately meet people with grace. I mean, that is what Jesus taught wasn't it?

I should post something soon.

Question:

Why does Jesus teach us how to live?

Why is this important?

Swee's Current Thoughts on Prayer

Why is it that people will pray for months and months about something God will obviously bles? And if He doesn't want it to happen, it won't.

We pray to be more like Jesus. Well God isn't just going to flip the Jesus switch on in our lives. God answers this prayer I believe, by giving us oppotunities to be more like Jesus. However most of the time we don't act like Jesus. We rebel against our own prayers.

Sometimes God answers our prayers, by giving us the ability to answer them ourselves.