Today I am leaving to travel for an extended period of time. I am going to visit many different friends and family around Christmas and New Years. I am throughly excited!
That's really all that I have to say...not very talkative today.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Friday, December 14, 2007
Skiboards?
You know, there are just some things in this world that make me WAY to excited...like the fact that I just bought new skiboards. For the past three seasons, I have owned some decent ones...you know, good all around intermediate boards. But these new ones...WOOT! They are 10 cm longer and 4 cm wider than my old ones which makes them perfectly set up for riding back country, powder, and spring conditions, which are my favorite things to do!
BUT, when it comes down to it, why in the world are these stupid little things making me so freakin' excited? You know, sometimes I wish I would get this excited about God. I mean, skiboards? No eternal significance whatsoever.
Don't get me wrong...it isn't wrong to get excited about new stuff. But how excited should we really get? I guess it comes down to what we truly worship...what we get our real pleasure from. Stuff or God?
"If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far to easily pleased." ~ C.S. Lewis
Skiboards? Who needs them...give me Christ! Philippians 3:7-8
BUT, when it comes down to it, why in the world are these stupid little things making me so freakin' excited? You know, sometimes I wish I would get this excited about God. I mean, skiboards? No eternal significance whatsoever.
Don't get me wrong...it isn't wrong to get excited about new stuff. But how excited should we really get? I guess it comes down to what we truly worship...what we get our real pleasure from. Stuff or God?
"If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far to easily pleased." ~ C.S. Lewis
Skiboards? Who needs them...give me Christ! Philippians 3:7-8
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Examine Yourself
I have been doing lot of pondering lately...I mean serious soul searching. I've been listening to a few sermons and reading my Bible and this is what I have been contemplating...how are we saved?
I mean, do we really just have to pray a prayer and then it's taken care of? And when we doubt, is all we really have to do for assurance to look at the date that we prayed the prayer in the back of our bible and then tell the devil to get off our back? Or could that be the greatest deception in the history of the church, especially in America?
Could it be that we are supposed to examine the fruits of our lives to see if we have actually been changed? Could it be that we need to test ourselves daily by the scriptures to see if our lives match up? Could it actually be that it doesn't matter one BIT whether we say that we know Jesus, but all that matters is if He knows us? (Matt. 7)
"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." John 3:3
Examine yourself...
I mean, do we really just have to pray a prayer and then it's taken care of? And when we doubt, is all we really have to do for assurance to look at the date that we prayed the prayer in the back of our bible and then tell the devil to get off our back? Or could that be the greatest deception in the history of the church, especially in America?
Could it be that we are supposed to examine the fruits of our lives to see if we have actually been changed? Could it be that we need to test ourselves daily by the scriptures to see if our lives match up? Could it actually be that it doesn't matter one BIT whether we say that we know Jesus, but all that matters is if He knows us? (Matt. 7)
"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." John 3:3
Examine yourself...
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