Live for Him

I’ve been really challenged this week by the thoughts of self worth, I heard an interesting sermon based on matthew 14 where;

Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake.“Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.”

 

 ²⁹“Come,” he said.

   Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. ³⁰But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!”

 ³¹Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. “You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?” 

Instead of the usual explanation, this pastor suggested that it was not peter’s faith in Jesus that he doubted, but it was a loss of faith in himself, that he as God’s follower, couldnt walk on water, even with the power of the lord to sustain him.

For as he rightly points out, God has faith in us, that we will perform the works and deeds that he has planned for us to do. He knows where we will stumble, where we will struggle, where we will lose heart, YET  he continues to use us as his instruments in his wholesome and perfect plan.

The devil is crafty and dangerous in tempting us to disbelief, in God, and more problematically in ourselves. For it becomes our excuse. I cant - I don’t know how, I’m not ready, I’ll mess it up, -the all to familiar sounds of our fears of failure. We need to have more faith that the Lord will equip us with what we need to get his job done. I am quick to forget his provision for me, both the material goods and the gifts which he has equipped me with.

Let us grow to be like children, eager for him to lead us, and us to have a greater faith that all will be provided, that our hearts will always be loved and that he will never abandon us. 

Growing up in this sinful world hardens us. With sins entering the betrayal has ever increased and how much harder does it become to not be in control when we’ve been hurt by betrayal so many times already, to trust again? By our families by our friends the list goes on and on. But there is always one that has never left our sides. We may have been blinded from him, enticed away by the devil and his minions and how glorious did that path originally look!  But what a lie!  What a trap! and when we humbly return to his side how much more his glory appears. Praise him that it is not through our works that we can ever be accepted. Thank him for his compassion and love. If it was left to our devices how could we ever be accepted? We couldn’t. 

Then look to the day, where there will be no more mourning, no more death, no more crying, where the old order of the world will have passed away and all will shout in heaven and on earth “Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God almighty”. How glorious will that day be. How peaceful. How exciting. How marvelous. What a blessing. And the knowledge that he, this same loving one is with us everyday, leading us, calling to us to go and follow him, to accept that wonderful gift. And yet so many have closed their minds, their hearts and their ears. Be not so. Pray you open yourselves once more, one last chance. One where you shall never be disappointed, where his love will conquer all, even death. Where he has given everything, his own son, so that he could rescue you. So think not of yourselves as worthless, but as precious gems, heartily sort after. 

I Pray you, ask him and believe, he will not disappoint. For he is most high and worthy and is love. Seek no longer. He is here.

Every time she smiles, it’s cause you did something to her heart that kept it beating that way. When she cries she wants you to hold her regardless of how hard she’s struggling. When she’s angry, understand exactly what’s wrong so that it’ll be easier for you to help her. When she loves you, love her like you’ll never love anybody else that way.

xkelcitee:

(via fuckyouvivian, phileho)

Hey I’m new to this so play nice kids, ok?

What do you say here? Sure I talk in my head to myself. A lot. But people can’t read those. Decision made; your getting a jumble of my random thoughts.

Truthfully this feels like one of my many other habits to get out of anything school related for many hours of the day. I am a terrible procrastinator. True fact there.

Anyway I’m sidetracked again. So the point I was planning on making was are we (as an society) out of common courtesy? Sure it isn’t completely gone, but we are sure on a sliding scale here.  Seriously I don’t want to sound like an old fogie but seriously how many of you were stalkers until facebook came along? It’s not like you could msn stalk someone or via email. Has our nosy nature gone to far? Where was the point of no return? Have we passed it already?

I dunno. 

But I must admit that after meeting someone for the first time and them saying:

“Oh I know you”

“Really?”

“Yea, I stalked you on facebook this one time”

Not cool. Slightly disturbing in fact. 

And then there is all the hacking and false comments and the jokes that are just not funny over the internet… it goes on and on.

Now I just wanna clear up here I’m not attempting to hate on Facebook or anything. (Indirectly it does appear I am though…). I have facebook, I use it and everything. See not a hater.

But I just want to question something where’s that point that it is too far? Where it starts to take up way too much of our time.  Where we go from users to ‘addicts’? That point where the joke just went too far and everyone just stops laughing and quietly and awkwardly says that they took it too far.

Does the internet even have this point? By human society does it exist? Should it?

Are people embracing this new opener society? Formspring seems to encourage it- although it also high endorses bullying. Or are people are a bit more eager for our private lives to be just that more private?

I reckon that you should just use letters. Seriously. No I am actually serious. Who doesn’t love getting mail. Not bills and stuff. But mail. You know just before your birthday and you start to get all these letters from all over the world or country. I think that it is nifty anyway. I believe that it is so much more exciting to see someone has written you a handwritten letter. Maybe it is because they clearly have thought a bit more about what they are going to say. And sure you end up squinting at some totally illegible handwriting but isn’t that half the fun?

xx