Is this for you?

* READ FIRST*      1 Kings 13:12-24
  
        This passage is very powerful to the instance that we should always follow God. For we should never listen to our mother, father, brother, sister, prophet or anyone else when it defiles what the Lord has commanded.  This he says unto you should be done in haste and exactly as he comandeth. Stray from his word by deception or by this world and his blessing will not be upon you. this he says unto you this day. I have commanded you to do this thing but you chose to listen to whom you want and not to the will of the Lord God almighty. Do you not have the faith in what you hear or do your ears deceive you? You have clearly heard me but still you choose not to obey. Now fall on your knees and worship the Lord whom you know now has given this word to you.

Who are you?

So while on the paper route this morning I passed one of the many churches on the 40 + miles that I drive.  They have had it on their sign for 2 weeks for a BBQ dinner today and I was suprised at what I saw. When I passed, they were completly set up for the morning. Three vehicles were beside the set up and the men were sitting in the trailor passing the time away. I told them that I was running my route and figured that since they had to get up early to make sure all the food was done on time that the least I could do is give them something to read to help pass the time. They invited me to dinner but of course I told them thanks for the offer but I will be at my church bright and early in the morning. Pretty good start to the night in my opinion.
      After I started back on my route those men got me thinking. They probably got out there late Saturday night, set up, chilled out, got some sleep and are probably about to get up in a bit to start cooking. See too many of us take the stuff that happens around us for granted. They see the experience but not the work to make it happen. I'm sure for that church lots of people will enjoy the food but very little will think about the three men that stayed there all night so they could eat after church.
     With all the stuff that churches want to do to grow ministries and get the word of the Lord to the masses we need people who will stand up for their faith and get their hands dirty. Not to stand around and look at whats happening but to get in the middle of it and get the job done! So what are you going to do? Are you going to stand around and say wow look at what they have done, or are you going to pray and find out what the Lord is calling you to do and go with it? You never know what you might be called to do if you don't pray, listen and try. So next time you are at an event or doing whatever, think about what it took to make all the things you see happen to where all you have to do is go and enjoy.

What do you do?

     So just getting done with the book of Judges and just like most of the books there are many reoccurring themes. One very prominent right now is even though all God did for Israel, when they had it good they turned right around and started worshipping fake gods and not obeying his word. But right when it finally got too hard for them they called back to the almighty to save them. Is that what you do, yeah I know that you don't necessarily have a golden calf in your house but I bet you have done exactly what Israel did. Pretty easy to say but are you man enough to admit. So we all have those bad times in our lives where we turn to deep prayer for God's help out of our situation. Things get better, life goes back to normal, so are you still praying like you were? Are you still worshipping like you were when you needed his help for the situation that you were in?
     We need to do better than that!! We need to pray and worship in times of need and times plenty. Not just get what we want then turn right back into the person that we use to be. But to worship and pray when times are hard and times are awesome. So how are you going to change so instead of your way to God going up and down it goes in a straight line for his awesomeness?

Do you know?

Do you know the books of the Bible? How many books are there? Old testament, New testament? Pretty straight forward questions to start out but not really. We take these little things for granted. As Christians we are suppose to take this whole book allot more seriously than most of us do. So what do you say can you name the books...bet you can name allot of songs that you love, movie lines that you hear over and over  because you love the movie so much. So why don't we take as much time to learn our Bible as we take to watch our favorite movies, TV shows, listen to music? Is it a matter of convenience? Are we all just too lazy to take the time to read and understand what matters? Because instead, we take way too much time in the worldly things. So how about this, instead of watching that rerun, listening to that song again or playing that video game one more time, take the time to open up your Bible and start reading. You never know what you might find!!!!