random thoughts..

its wierd how people say that they are so thankful for God and what he has done in thier lives and that they are so glad to be saved..and yet..they live life rarely praying..barley reading the bible.. and almost never meditating on the thought of the Almighty Creator deciding to have so much grace and love for these imperfect people that he would send his only son to be sentenced to death for them. i mean..talk about the definition of a hippocrite. now im not saying that im the perfect Christian and i read the bible all the time..i pray without ceasing..and i am always meditating on God..and i never sin. that would be a lie. what im trying to say is..how can people who have been saved ONLY by the grace of God not have a desire to dig deeper into God?

i understand that people are busy. i am one of them. so what. that doesnt change who God is. God will never give you so much work that you dont have any time to meditate with him and just talk to him. he loves us too much for that.

another thought just popped in my head..how do we expect to be used by God if we are simply using him?

you see..what ive come to realize in my walk with God is that Christianity has become a fashion statement. people have the "jesus is my homeboy" trucker hat with the matching shirt but yet..majority of the time..jesus doesnt even know them. people see that "hey everyone seems to be into the 'god thing'..i think i will to just to fit in".

that recently has been bugging me so much. we want God to do these great things with us and our talents..yet..we dont do anything about it. we spend so much time making sure the outside looks good that we dont have time for the inside. wow.

i see it like this..i play guitar. but i know this. there are probly 34,895,713,457 better guitarisits than me in my city alone. and im ok with that. im ok with the fact that any given day an amazing guitar player can come to my church and melt the faces on the entire congregation until the walls melt because he is so good. i know this can happen. and as a muscian..yea that does motivate me to get better. but. the only thing that truly inspires me to play and grow in my gifts is God. afterall..he did give me the skills i have. and you see..growing in my guitar skills is not what is going to make me a better guitarist/musican. its growing in God.

im not trying to get better at guitar to showcase my talent..i do it to grorify God.

i always tell God before i play to empty my body of myslef and fill it with him and his beautiful sweet presence. that is what is gonig to change lives..

God changes lives..not people.

what we do as Christians for people is..

seek God wholeheartedly and constantly mediate on his word and presence..

then god will fill our body and take over..

then lives will be changed..

dont get too lazy for God..

like our parents always said..if u sit too close to the tv u will be blind..

think about that spiritually...

when we watch tv we are usually being lazy and being entertained by a secular program..

if we do that too much..

we wont even be able to see God anymore becuase we have been so lazy and infested with the world..

live for God....