Sunday, June 12, 2011

Doing anything for all the wrong reason

Currently at Starbucks with Jonathan that had the favor to give me an article he read and this came to me, love the way the author phrased this:

" You may look upon me (Paul D. Washer) as a mature Christian who has learned many things, but i have been so wrong in so many ways, and thus has been my greatest error. I have always pressed hard to accomplish something, when I should have pressed hard just to be with Him! Yes, my dear young Christian, you can even waste your precious drops of life in the work of ministry and missions! Remember this: To confine to God to a quiet time is grotesque, to reduce discipleship to only obedience is pathetic, and to make ministry into something other than christ's life flowing through your intimate relationship with Him is to make it nothing more than a stupid work of the flesh."

I sit here now and I wonder, what are we here on earth for? Why more of us, humans, are created every year? Yes we procreate, we multiply, reproduce, whatever scientific name or definition you can name it, yet who is the one that allows life to be real in the first place? Are we here for a simple way that the earth works like some think or are we here to just follow the so called course of life? Even Evolution? Oh man honestly (and I am speaking as I think so excuse my silly phrases) are we that ignorant? Are we so blind that we based must of our lives into Maslow's hierarchy of needs? (the pyramid of so called human motivational needs? for those who don't know what it is, look it up, it is a through explanation of how a human being needs to have a bunch of factors in order to have a so called "regular or normal life"). Hold on a second, I encourage you guys to go to this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mazlow%27s_Hierarchy_of_Needs.svg

What's the one thing that is missing in the so called human life? Maslow's theory is followed by the world in every level, it does have a point however, did anybody stop to notice that God, Jesus Christ, the One that fills and fulfills every need we may have, the one that died for OUR SINS, NOT HIS! (yes, sometimes we are so full of pride that we stop and fill our little thoughts thinking we even deserve to be alive?! Are we that important??) HE HAD, HAS, AND WILL NEVER HAVE sin in Him, yet He is not included in the most followed theory of human life? He isn't! Did you guys see him in that pyramid? Exactly! So i stop to think, where is this world headed by following something that has no Savior included? Yes, I am sorry if I am being harsh, as a matter of fact I am not (quote that i said I would speak my exact thoughts as they came), I will not conform to this world's apologies, I will not sit here watching my non-Christian family go more days without me being something in their lives more than prayer, i will not allow more of my friend circle to go days without knowing that I am alive, but not because I deserve it (like I once thought) but because HE LOVES ME I am here now speaking about the GREATEST being ever known to man, yes man, the one who sinned, not the Son of Man that died for us, and carried OUR sin! How can we dedicate our lives to just living like some songs say "one day at a time" and not notice that even the slightest microscopic particle that makes up the light that we see when we open our eyes is being controlled for every single person that is waking up at the same instant in the world by the same God? Honestly, I do not walk the walk, I struggle, I sin, I am a man, but I am forgiven, I am redeemed, I know my Savior is my God who is not in the rules of this world because HE IS NOT FROM THIS WORLD, and guess what guys? NEITHER ARE WE! we are created to His image yes we are, but we have to come to a point where we say, "ok, today I am going to live this day (not MY day cause it's not ours) for YOU Jesus, tomorrow (repeat the same thing), and the next (likewise) until it becomes a clear fact that we are nothing, that we are saved by HIS grace, not ours, oh and then we have the nerve to argue with Him when something does not go our way? Making me laugh when I get disgusted why? I am one of those who argues, one of those that says "why God" one of those that says but "I want it, what's wrong with it?" Guess again?? IT IS GOD'S WAY, He knows the outcome to every situation and He is so good that He gave us freedom to act and choose, but always OUR way is the wrong way, why? Cause HE is not included in the human equation, we tend to leave Him out to satisfy what? Yea we just went back to Maslow's needs I'm sorry but I want to open my eyes, and your eyes when you read this.

Guys we need one thing, JESUS CHRIST, He and only He will give us the needs we actually need, when He knows they are really needed, He will even spoil us at times, but even those blessings have a purpose in our lives, which ultimately have a higher purpose? YES! I finally got to the greatest news huh? HEAVEN! We will all be there one day thanks to Maslow, opsss excuse my language, yes, exactly, thanks to Jesus, the One who gave it all, we sometimes think "oh I'm giving my all" think again! ARE YOU REALLY? or are you leaving some dirt under the sofa, behind the bed? Please do not let the world influence you more than it already has for those years that you haven't had a relationship with our Lord Jesus, and now that we do make it count every second, life is not pocket-enabled, meaning that you can't put a minute or two in your pocket and use them whenever you want, so use them wisely, and make sure that every minute has Jesus on it, why? it is only the best choice we can ever make and then our purpose, our ministry, our calling, our great commission, ourselves guys! will be the way He wants it to be which is the best and the only way it should, it is His world, His ways, His path, FOLLOW IT, stop blocking it trying to live YOUR life and live it FOR HIM. Seek Him and everything will be filled, hello? God never promises something that He will not deliver, so do as He says LITERALLY and He will manifest yourself in your life.

I apologize again for being harsh on myself and all those who read my note, but then again, I am not! :) Jesus is someone that we can't (not shouldn't) CANT take lightly, our cellphones, computers, lives, friends, family, NOTHING is more important, yes we sin, yes we have flaws, we fall, but always have in mind that our Jesus is forgiving, so go to Him all the time ok?? thank you guys.

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