Perfect Weakness

What a way to start your day with a prayer like this, “God help me to be the weakest man you know”

Most of us would rather be the one with the biggest Scofield Reference Bible with a steel spine and know how to swing it. That would be the best someone that can cut down and beat into smithereens anything that the world can throw at you. So, your morning prayers should be God make me stronger, make me into a warrior in your army, make me a beacon for all to see. Make, make, make, me, me, me … God cannot make us do anything we are full of everything we think we could ever need 2 Peter 1:3-11 puts it out there to see, we just need to make room for it. The man in the tent needs to surrender to Jesus and push out the “make me” and receive the “let me”.

When we believe in Christ we are just a little bit closer to God than the devil our mind and heart needs to give into the divine power of God and let go our power to the point of death. Death is a big weakness, as man we cease to be and out of the stink of sin and death a new life comes and takes hold of the power and knowledge of God.

Once we become part of the body of Christ we have all that we need to resist the devil.  James 4 is a good one to remember man fights against God and wants everything but if we surrender to God he gives us the power to resist. We need to remember that it is not my power but only a gift from God to use.

Surrendering to God makes me the weakest son of man but a prized child of God and he will defend and protect me when I surrender to Him.

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What is Time and Eternity

I just put a paper online that has to do with time and eternity.

Now I have this idea about how to explain why God put us on this earth if he knows how it is going to end. Think about the best movie you like to watch. You went to see it when it came out in the theater you got it when it came out on VHS you replaced it when the first tape was so ratty you could hardly see the actors. Then the newly mastered digital tape, the director’s cut, then DVD now blue ray … Has the movie changed? Did the good guys loose once? When you see other movies and one of your favorite actors has a part in you compare his acting with your favorite movie. You wonder if you ran into them on the street how would they be.

Our time on this rock could be one of God’s favorite times of the day. Just think for a minute God having a few of his best over for a movie and He picks your name. Now God has burned through hundreds of feet of 16mm film, laser disk, VHS, DVD… you get the picture. Being the only eternal God has seen your life from start to finish more times than we can imagine, but still he is watching. Cheering you along in the best parts and maybe kicking the floor when you totally blow it. Non-the less out of all the lives He could be watching he’s got yours on the big screen. He could be thinking what you are going to say when he sees you face to face.

Yes, God has seen our life before He built the Earth. Yes, He knows who’s in and who’s out, it’s not my job to argue why am I here now when God knows how it’s going to end. To God it is more than in or out. His love for us lets us live our life to see how much he has helped us along the way. The story of our life is more than just a thought in his mind. It is the best movie ever.

See all the things God has done for you each day to show how much He loves you.

Live your life because you know how much He loves you.

Share what God has done for you with others and maybe they could be one of God’s film of a lifetime.