Two Years Ago

Well, it just dawned on me as I was telling my story to a friend from high school; Thursday was the two year anniversary of the day which changed my life and the lives of my family forever. I was overwhelmed with emotion and began to thank God he saved my life. I remember someone asking me if I ever questioned God as to why it happened. I can honestly say the only question which ever entered my mind was "WOW, I wonder what God has in store for me in the future?" I ask this same question again today. God, what do you have in store for my life. I had a good friend tell me the other day fasting is really the only way to get true clarity in your spiritual ears. So I guess I should do this just to clean the wax out of my spiritual ears. Again I want to proclaim to the world, or my 2 readers, I give God all the credit for my complete and continued recovery.

More Thoughts

Have you ever wondered how Abram felt when God told him He would make his offspring like the dust. If anyone could count the dust so could his offspring be counted. Do you think he would have done anything different if he had know the Messiah would come from his descendants?

Do Not Gloat Over Me My Enemies

While I was in the hospital a good friend of mine, Craig, gave me a verse which encouraged me and my whole family. Micah 7:8, “Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy. Though I fall I will rise; Though I dwell in darkness, the Lord is a light for me.” (NAS) Here I was in one of the darkest moments in my life and I hear this scripture. Micah is telling his enemies not to gloat over him because he is down. He tells us he sits in darkness, but the Lord is his light. Here he is surrounded by his enemies arrogantly gloating over him about his failure and his condition and he is still able to proclaim God is his Light. I felt like God was telling me to ignore all of my enemies, everyone telling me to expect the worse, and focus on His light of truth and He would pull me through.

I serve an awesome God!

Well today is 6 months, and I am 2 1/2 week from finishing my therapy. God has been so amazing through this entire process. I have given God all the glory for my speedy recovery. I plan on playing softball in the spring. I have had people ask why this happened to me. My response is, "Who cares? I'm alive." I will get to see my son turn three next month. I serve an awesome God and I dare anyone to challenge me on this. I was removed from the grasp of death. No one will ever convince me MY God is not real or alive.

Give God Our Best?

I recently watched the movie “Facing the Giants”, and was challenged to give God my best. How exactly do I give God my best? Yeah I know the first fruits and all that, but am I really giving my best? What if I could have tried harder and made better first fruits, or worked harder and made more fruit thus producing more first fruits? Then it hits me my best will never come within miles of touching the shadow Jesus’ best, the Cross. All I can do is try my very best to follow His example, and when I don’t succeed at least I have given it the very best I can. This is really all He is asking for. Thank you Jesus for giving you very best and picking up my slack!

Slow moving rabbits and low hanging fruit.

A good friend of mine uses this term quite often, and when I first started thinking about the subject I started thinking this could be a continuation of “The Right Way”. The more I began to think about this the more God began to show me an entirely different path. I really feel like God is challenging me with this question. Are you giving Me all your issues, or are you just giving me the easy things? So I began to really take this heart. Am I being lazy and only letting God dealing with the easy stuff, or Am I only chasing the slow moving rabbits and grabbing the low hanging fruit?

The Right Way

Recently during one of my occupational therapy sessions my therapist made a comment to me about doing my exercises the right way. She said men tend to be more about reaching the goal, and could care less if they do it right as long as they get there. Where as women really aren't as concerned if they achieve the goal as long as they are doing it the right way trying to reach the goal. At first I laughed, and thought this woman has lost it.

Later the same day ..... God really started to deal with me about what she said not only with my therapy, but with every area of my life. Am I learning to just walk again or am I making sure I am doing it right. What have I gained if I just achieve the goal of walking again only to develop a permanent limp in the process? Am I just trying to serving God or am I serving Him the right way. I don't know about you I want to do more than slide in the door of heaven. I want to serve God with every fiber of my being. Am I just trying to be just a father or am I really trying to be the father God wants me to be. I am reminded of the saying "Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a Daddy."I don't want to be a father who is untouchable I want to be a Daddy. Someone my son can learn how his relationship with God should be. I want to more than just a husband. I want to be the husband my wife needs me to be. I want my son to learn how to treat women from me and the relationship I have with my wife, and not from some kid at school.

As a man of God I should not just be living my life, but living my life like 1 Corinthians 9:24. "Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but {only} one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win." (NAS)

Everybody runs the race. Are you running the right way? Are running the race in such a way as to win the prize?