Michael Vick

I'm not really going to write anything about Michael Vick, but everything else on the web and on t.v. is about Vick so I guess my fingers just got confused while typing the title for this post.

Anyways, I just wanted to say that it was amazing to see God answer my prayers on Sunday. I have been praying for a group of people in our area that I hoped would come to church, and Sunday I was asking God to bring at least 5 of those people to church. And guess what, He did. Exactly 5 people from the list of people I and others have been praying for showed up Sunday morning. I've also been praying that God would just draw people that we don't know to the church. That we would see people come just by the leading of His Spirit. And guess what, He did. It was amazing and very uplifting to me.

I am amazed at God's faithfulness. In 2 Timothy chapter 2, God's word says that even when we are faithless, He is faithful. That is exactly what I saw on Sunday. Even though I have been praying for people to come, I have not always been faithful in my prayers, or even faithful to my God. Yet, He was still faithful. That blows me away!

I hate golf

I hate golf, yet I love golf. It is just that type of game. By the time I think I kind of have it figured out, by figured out I mean being able to hit the ball and not being in fear of maiming someone or causing a major vehicular accident on a road adjacent to the golf course, I realize I don't have anything figured out. It is a very, very frustrating game.

Today I played as bad as you can possibly play, and yet I'm ready to go again as soon as possible. It doesn't make any sense.

I'm sorry

When I was a senior in high school, I helped to start a poll that would rank the top 25 girls at my high school. And now I would like to say I'm sorry. I'm sorry I didn't live out in my life then something I already knew, and that was that God completely and fully loved and still loves everyone of those girls. The ones on the poll and the ones I didn't even see fit to mention. The identity of those girls comes from the fact that God loves us, not from some stupid high school poll thought up by stupid boys. I'm sorry.

Afraid of the dark

I'm afraid of the dark. There it is, I admit it. I am 32 years old, and there are times when I am extremely afraid of the dark. Why, I don't really know. I just know that since I was a kid, I have been afraid at nights and in dark places. I do okay most nights, but if Shawna is ever out of town, then forget about it. I usually don't sleep much those nights.

So this fear of the dark got me thinking. It got me thinking about a couple of things really. First, it made me think about how dark sin is, which makes sense. If God is light, then sin would have to be void of light, and I've really began to see that in my life lately. I've started to "feel" just how dark sin can be in my life, but what I've also noticed, is my lack of fear for the darkness of sin. I mean I despise sin in my life, but I don't seam to fear its darkness like I fear the darkness at night time. This concerns me. If the darkness of night can bring about such panic inside me, than why doesn't the darkeness that comes from disobeying my Creator do the same. God is not asking me to be weighed down and left feeling unforgiven by my sin that He has already forgiven, but I do wish that something inside of me would fear the darkness of sin as much as I fear the dark.

Restless leg syndrome

So I'm sure you have seen the commercials for the medication for RLS (restless leg syndrome). First I want to say that if you have RLS I am not making fun of your condition, however, I will be making fun of the side effects of the medication they want you to take for your condition. More specifically I will be making fun of the side effect that "may increase your urge to gamble" if you take RLS medication. The urge to gamble?? Seriously, you no longer have problems with your legs keeping you up at night, but now you can't go to bed because you're hooked on on-line texas hold em' poker.

"I no longer have problems with RLS, but my family now lives in a cardboard box." ( that would be said by an actor with a Gomer Pyle type voice)

That just seems like a very interesting side effect is all.

Things get old

On our trip to Colorado and Utah this past week, I spotted a candy bar that I used to think I would never get tired of eating and I realized I was tired of eating it. It made me think why that was. It is still the same candy bar, made the same way as it always has, so why did I no longer choose to partake of its tasty goodness? Then I realized that's how it is for a lot of things, not just candy bars. Some of the movies that I used to be able to watch everyday or tapes that I use to wear out from too much play (and yes I did say tapes, you haven't heard that phrase in awhile) I no longer want to see or hear. Why? I guess we just want something different after a while. And even though we fight change if it isn't our choice, we really all thrive off of change. Which to me makes even more profound the statement Paul makes in Philippians, when he says he is "content whatever the circumstances" and that he has learned the secret of being content.

I want to be content. I don't always want to be looking for the next thing coming over the next hill. I don't always want to see if the grass is greener. I want to be content. I believe what Paul has discovered is that it's not about finding contentment WITH your circumstances, but rather we can be content IN our circumstances because we quench our human desire for the next thing with our pursuit of God. He is the one thing that never gets old, and the one thing we will never fully comprehend.

There are times when God calls us to new jobs, new places, and new ministries, but if this isn't one of those times, yet you still are feeling restless. Pursue HIm. Pursue Him. Pursue Him.

I'm doing a wedding in Utah, so I will be away from the computer for about a week. Hopefully, the trip will yield something interesting to write about.