To be Christ to the WHOSOEVER

Right now there is a ton of stuff occurring throughout the world. Pollett was reading an article today, ok actually many individual articles, but he was reading about asteroids killing the planet, one world currency, and then of course followed up by super-volcanos, and solar-flares. So basically a lot is going on.

Everyone in our church and at CSU seems to have a lot going on as well. This is not a blog entry to tell you to "relax, and take some time with God this week, knowing full-well He has it under His control"...which He does, and you know that.

This is a blog entry to let you know that it is HARD, it is not EASY, the familiar quote of "if it were easy everyone would do it" comes into play daily, but ultimately provides no comfort. All I can say is that trust in God is good, beneficial, and a great hope to grab hold of. Trust in men will fail you, always. Leading a ministry, being a substantial help in a ministry, including school, including work, including family and friends, and maybe something fun for yourself once a month is the norm now. Everyone has a lot on their plate, and it's just tough.

But, it becomes tougher when we live in our strength, and try to accomplish things that God has not led us to. When we take on things that we don't have time for and have to negate successful study or time with the Lord over things that are less important, and some things are less important. Anytime someone picks something, he or she picks that thing over something else, therefore showing the importance of one thing over another. And ultimately that thing is normally not God; that's when we fail.

Luckily the Lord is gracious enough to forgive us, raise us up, and even sometimes allow us to accomplish those things we desire, in His strength, just so that we know it is He who allows, and He who is strong enough; we are not. So understand that this is a realism entry, an observation, and a vain attempt to scream priorities at your life, while reading this in between work and everything else.

God is good, our help comes from Him, ultimately we deserve Hell and everything that we get besides that is just grace...abounding everyday. Everyone's got a lot, which means everyone's got a lot to pray for...we should be on our knees, looking for strength and rest.

You know what to do, but you don't do it. You'd even like to do what you should, but you don't. You do what you ultimately don't want to do, and you even complain about it, but maybe it's what you desire outside of God that controls your time. Again, you know what you should do. Congratulations on becoming Paul.

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