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| I had a bunch of crap typed up, but I'll leave it at this.
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| So my diet is going well, I've lost almost 10 pounds. I'd like to get down to 15% body fat.....by summer. Ordered more supplements today from atlargenutrition and will need to track down some freeweights for the bench in my basement (abandonded by prior tenants).
I'd like to run every day, but there's nothing I hate more than running. Maybe I'll...... hmmm.
Hopefully summer soccer will start soon, a couple times a week. Haven't played for 2 weeks and probably won't for another couple weeks, although I think diet is more a part of my weight loss than exercise.
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| The will of God. Set in stone from the beginning, to the end. Unchanging, holy perfect, and totally uncomprehensible.
And you really think you can change it?
I had a guy at work that wants to buy a car....has to be his 6th car. He has at least 3 at his parents, totally run down. Why he needs another, I can't imagine. Anyhow, he wants to buy this new car, and he called about financing. He decided that he would pray about it, and if the financing were approved, then it was okay to get the car. The assumption was that God would make the financing unavailable to him if it were not His will.
The amazing thing about God, and the thing we almost always forget, is that His will will be done. He knows every decision that we will make, about everything. Big and small. Consequential and inconsequential. He knows it all. He knows what I will decide, before I decide it, and has already planned on that decision.
Get it?
And I realize the argument is that we cannot just sit on our hands and expect God to do everything, but it's not the other extreme either. We are not doing everything to make God's will happen in our lives. Is it me or are too many of us just full of ourselves?
I'm fine with God handling my life. I seek wisdom in big decisions, as I ought. But ultimately, no matter what decision I make, God is already taking care of it. He already knows.
And yet he tolerates my very existence. 
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| I think of old churches that I used to go to, and remember how we would go out with gospel tracts, knock on doors, and ask people if they are going to Heaven.
Whose idea was this? Let's go to people's houses, knock on the door at a time which will probably be inconvenient for them (which in all reality is probably all the time), and ask them if they are going to Heaven. Then what. Most people will say yes. Then we were supposed to ask "how do you know you are going to Heaven". I can count on one hand the number of people that chose to continue that conversation.
You know what they're thinking. Stinking Bible thumpers coming around to convert me to their cult. And I use "cult" loosely, as I believe for much of my young(er) life I attend a Baptist church that rides a thin line between church, and cult. They're not going to want to pursue the conversation because you've already forced yourself into their comfort zone. They have already figured out what kind of person they think you are, and they want nothing to do with it.
Everyone knows Christians that they want nothing to do with. I know Christians that I think are WAY over the edge, but I must tolerate them as I will be spending eternity with them. The problem is, these Christians are the ones that turn more people off for Christ, than they turn on to Christ. And they do it with the purest of intentions.
One general opinion of Christians IMHO is that they are hypocrites. As my last entry read, "...christians who acknowledge jesus with their lips, Then walk out the door and deny him by their lifestyle" they say one thing, and do another. And I realize we are all guilty of this to some extent, but it's my example. Deal with it.
We can do SO MUCH MORE to witness by interacting with those around us that we believe are unsaved, and let our actions do the witnessing. You want people to notice there's something different about you, not because you tell them there is something different, but because they can TELL. They watch you and know you have something they want...you have hope, and eternal security.
The Christians who talk the most of how "Christian" they are, are often the worst variety of Christian. Now you have your "better than thou's" and your "holy rollers". Purposing to prove themselves better than others.
Gotta admit I see people like that, and secretly hope they are among those that Christ will send away as He never knew them. That's harsh, and it certainly sounds worse.
But people like that, keep people like me at arm's length from the people that need Christ the most.
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| One of my favorite quotes about Christians, comes from the beginning of a DC Talk song. "the greatest single cause of atheism in the world today
Is christians who acknowledge jesus with their lips
Then walk out the door and deny him by their lifestyle.
That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable." And we wonder why there aren't more Christians. Perhaps a book on why not to be a Christian is in order....wonder if I could spin that? You'd probably have editors jumping at that book, only to be disgusted that it was geared more for Christians, than for everyone else. I'm at work. I will not be at work, at 11:01pm. | | |
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