Here are a couple things you should know about me before reading my words:

1. I consider myself to be in a constant state of learning and growing. I am always open to any other thoughts or ideas. It doesn't matter if they are new, old, similar to my own, or totally opposing to my own. I will always try to weigh everything I hear with an unbiased point of view, and not be offended if somebody totally disagrees with me.

2. Ever since I can remember, every time I have had serious thoughts about serious issues (especially about God) the thoughts and ideas flow through my mind in the form of a sermon or speech. I cannot tell you why this is. Just please know that, although I sound extremely preachy, that's just the way my mind processes things. I am not in any way trying to tell anyone how to live his/her life. I am simply sharing my thoughts and views as best I can. It is your choice to take it or leave it.

3. I can't really think of any thing else that is totally necessary for you to know. I hope you fully understand everything that I say. Feel free to let me know what you think through a comment. God bless you all.

My Thoughts

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

USELESS

(I wrote this about a year ago one random afternoon when I was bored. I rarely feel the desire to write. But when a lot is on my mind it helps to take it off my mind and put it on paper.)


If you really look at each and every one of our lives as human beings you see that each person has his or her own qualities...some good, some bad...As a Christian I believe that God, the creator of all things and all people, has a love for every one of his creations just like a carpenter has for everyone one of his crafts. A skilled carpenter puts time and care into his work. Once he is done he has no choice but to care for it. A carpenter also creates each and every piece of work to serve a specific purpose. whether it be a chair to sit on...or a house to live in...or something that people can just look at and admire...I think God, being the ultimate craftsman, has created each one of us for a certain purpose. In the Bible God tells us to go out and spread the good news (of His son Jesus) to all the world. Yes that is sort of an overall purpose of being a Christian. But I do not believe that He means for each and everyone one of us to become world missionaries. Each one of us has to find what our specific purpose is. I don't know about you but for me that's not that easy to do. How do we as people do exactly what God wants us to do. In the Bible Jesus says that we must take up our cross and follow him. I'm pretty sure the people that he was talking to were pretty darn confused at that point. The cross at that day and time had the sole purpose of putting one person through the most agonizing death that one could imagine. So for someone to take up his or her cross meant that they were to follow Jesus into death and experience it like he was about to. That seems sort of crazy to ask someone to do. In today's world you can look around and see that most people go about their lives totally wasting the gifts and talents that their creator has given them. They are not using the things God gave them to do what they were supposed to do. We all do this, whether you like it or not, we are all sinners and we all screw up. We all at some point in time use God's gifts to go against God. So how exactly do we succeed in serving our own purpose that God has given us. How do we know what the purpose is. I think that everyone underestimates God's ability to work through us to do spectacular things. I think this underestimation is somewhat fair seeing as we all know deep down inside that without God we would be totally useless. Since the gifts and talents are God assigned, it seems like its possible for God to easily take them away. In other words God can totally take away what he has given us. So why does He let us screw up over and over again. Why does He give us chance after chance to use what he has given us for it's original purpose. The only answer that I can come up with is that the outcome of us using our gifts to their full extent is far more life changing than the little screw ups that we partake in. But that still leaves most of us with the question, how do we get on the same page with God. What initial step do we have to take to start allowing God to use us for our original purpose. Isn't that the hard question. One of my favorite story's in the Bible is the miracle of Jesus feeding the five thousand people with a just two loaves of bread and some fish. If you read this story from John's point of view you notice that Jesus doesn't just pull this food out of his pocket. It says that a small boy offered up his bread and fish to Jesus. You see, Jesus could have just done the miracle himself and fed everyone their without any help, but instead he used a small boys lunch offered up to him to feed a mass amount of people. In the same way God could just make everyone love him. He could make the world perfect. But instead he uses our gifts and talents to make life interesting. So about that initial step that we have to take to succeed in our purpose. We are all minuscule on this earth. We are all useless without God. Just like that small basket of bread and fish could never feed thousands of people. We can hardly do anything that could really matter unless we put our lives in God's hands. If we wake up every morning and try to imagine ourselves giving God our useless life, maybe then we can become useful....

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