Friends,
Sorry for my long sabbatical from this blog. The past year has been one of the most eventful of my life thus far. I finished a degree, I traveled some, and I said good by to my earthly father as he went on to be with the Lord.
It has been a year where I have done much reflection on the importance of time. And how precious little of it each of us have. The scriptures tell us that the days are "evil". What I believe that means is that they are fleeting. So, we need to make our time count.
How often, I have "spent" time on things that were of little value. With my dad's passing I have come to realize that my time is very precious and needs to be "spent" with care and consideration for the value it is. After all, when a commodity is considered valuable, we do take care of it, or spend it wisely, in the case of money.
So, I am going to consider how I spend my time more carefully. All the while realizing that the best way to spend it is for the One who has purchased my life with His. That is, living my life for Jesus Christ. That means I allow Him to order my time and live this life to glorify His name as the Holy Spirit leads me to do so.
Will you do the same? Think about it!
May God bless you with an abundance of time to spend!
Patrick
Friday, September 12, 2008
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Curious?
Deuteronomy 12:30
Have you ever noticed the farther you lean over a rail to peer at something on the other side, the easier it is to fall completely over the rail? It seems the farther you lean, the more gravitational pull as your weight distribution is increased to the other side. Pretty simple deduction, right? The more you lean the easier it is to fall… common sense!
The same holds true for how we approach life. God has given us a standard to live by. However, the costliness of our curious nature can lead us into “leaning” into things that we have no business making inquiries. Considering the question, “how bad is that movie really?” This question causes on to determine further, “I’ll just see how bad it gets, so I understand…” This is a set up for a fall into something you probably have no business looking into. Really, do you need to see a movie to know that it is going to be bad? Do you have to look on the internet to see how awful things are out there? Should you look at advertisements to see how racy they are getting? All for the sake of educational purposes… or worse yet making a righteous excuse like, just so I can understand how to pray?!?!?
Israel was warned in Deuteronomy 12:30 not to make inquiry of how their enemies worshipped, so that they would not fall into worshipping false gods themselves. It is common sense, if you know that something is bad, believe it is bad and stay away from it!
I want to encourage each of you to consider what you do. Free yourself from things that might snare you into the great big addicting messes that are abundantly available, and lead us away from God. If you think something might be bad, stay away from it, it probably is! The old adage, “curiosity killed the cat” is true of our faith walk too when it relates to unhealthy curiosity!
Live LIFE to please Him!
Blessings,
Patrick
Have you ever noticed the farther you lean over a rail to peer at something on the other side, the easier it is to fall completely over the rail? It seems the farther you lean, the more gravitational pull as your weight distribution is increased to the other side. Pretty simple deduction, right? The more you lean the easier it is to fall… common sense!
The same holds true for how we approach life. God has given us a standard to live by. However, the costliness of our curious nature can lead us into “leaning” into things that we have no business making inquiries. Considering the question, “how bad is that movie really?” This question causes on to determine further, “I’ll just see how bad it gets, so I understand…” This is a set up for a fall into something you probably have no business looking into. Really, do you need to see a movie to know that it is going to be bad? Do you have to look on the internet to see how awful things are out there? Should you look at advertisements to see how racy they are getting? All for the sake of educational purposes… or worse yet making a righteous excuse like, just so I can understand how to pray?!?!?
Israel was warned in Deuteronomy 12:30 not to make inquiry of how their enemies worshipped, so that they would not fall into worshipping false gods themselves. It is common sense, if you know that something is bad, believe it is bad and stay away from it!
I want to encourage each of you to consider what you do. Free yourself from things that might snare you into the great big addicting messes that are abundantly available, and lead us away from God. If you think something might be bad, stay away from it, it probably is! The old adage, “curiosity killed the cat” is true of our faith walk too when it relates to unhealthy curiosity!
Live LIFE to please Him!
Blessings,
Patrick
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