Sunday, October 26, 2008

Security is a kind of death

Security is a kind of death – Tennessee Williams

I believe we all block God’s direction for our lives due to our secure lives and fear of change. I believe that most of us, myself included, do not change due to our lives as we are living them are secure, comfortable, and manageable. I also believe that God wants more for each of us and because of our free will we refuse to follow his path. We fear cahnge more than a wasted life. That due to our secure existence we keep doing the same thing everyday and don’t even question the hamster wheel we are running on. We keep going through the motions of surviving the best we know how and don't even know why. Like a hamster on a wheel a lot of effort, but that effort doesn't get us anywhere. We wake up one day and we are old and realize that our lives are over and question what we did with the most precious gift God has given us - our life.

I’m not criticizing anyone, I just feel that in my heart God has a plan for me, it could be small or it could be large, but God does have a plan. I feel that it is my responsibility to open my heart up to God’s plan and live my destiny. To move confidently in God's directed story of my life.

But before I go further I also believe that it is my responsibility to care for those who God has entrusted in my care, my wife and my children. Following God’s plan doesn’t give me the right to quit my job and not care for my family. It doesn’t give me the right not to pay my bills and or disobey the laws of our government.

I believe that if you follow God’s plan for you life, you and your loved ones will be cared for along that wonderful journey of a live well lived.

How can I find out what God’s plan is for my life? I believe the following things must be done in order to know what direction we must travel in our lives to live God’s destiny for his children.

1) Believe that God has a plan and that God loves his children
2) Pray, read the bible, meditate, and listen for God’s direction

If we have faith and make the first step for God, I believe like doing anything in life with practice comes proficiency. I also believe that God can speak to us through many different ways;

1) Chance meeting
2) Television shows
3) Church sermon
4) Individuals in our lives
5) Articles we read
6) Gut feelings
7) Ideas

All of the signs are probable around us all the time, but we have not opened our hearts to hear and receive God’s direction. I plan on moving out of my comfort zone and pray for faith and direction in my life. Once my heart knows God’s plan, I will pray that my head listens to my heart, and finally that my feet move in that direction.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all – Helen Keller
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IF

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling

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10Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. 12For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. 18And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.