It seems that yes, things move on and change.. Sometimes more over dramatic than other times, and it seems my life has hit one of those HUGE changes. Things will never be the same again. They just won't. People change a lot, and sometimes, it's you who has changed and realizes really what someone is about... and how they never really were any different.
I've decided that I am going to stop trying to salvage relationships in which people have turned ill towards me. I am here open hearted when they are ready. I am not putting anymore effort into it. I know who I am in Christ and will let them think what they will.
I just wish things were different, but hey, I will remember at least the good times I've had...
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
If we are the body
Paul's beautiful picture of the body of Christ in 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 demonstrates this 'unity in diversity', and reminds us that every Christian needs every other to grow to full maturity. Each of us has an essential role to play and, if any one of us fails in playing our role the whole body suffers. The greatest threats to the proper functioning of Christ's body are the attitudes of pride[5] ('I don't need you') and self-pity[6] ('I do not belong'). We are all needed and we all need everyone else.
The diversity of the church Jesus prayed for had a purpose; each member was to help every other member come to maturity. 'From him the whole body... grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work'.[7] Christians are meant to be bearing one another's burdens[8] and laying down their lives for each other,[9] just as Christ himself did for us. Loving each other means always being committed to each other's good, and being willing to sacrifice ourselves for each other. When we approach disagreement with a concern for truth and unity, and for building each other up, we are already a long way to resolving our difficulties.
Holding unity and truth together requires great patience, endurance, love, grace, mercy, humility and courage, which is why most people (and most churches) prefer to sacrifice either truth or unity for the other. But each of us as Christians has a responsibility to be committed to every other Christian, not just those who think like us, or who belong to the same branch of the church. Being a truly committed member of Christ's body means that every other Christian is my brother or sister to whom I owe responsibility.
The diversity of the church Jesus prayed for had a purpose; each member was to help every other member come to maturity. 'From him the whole body... grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work'.[7] Christians are meant to be bearing one another's burdens[8] and laying down their lives for each other,[9] just as Christ himself did for us. Loving each other means always being committed to each other's good, and being willing to sacrifice ourselves for each other. When we approach disagreement with a concern for truth and unity, and for building each other up, we are already a long way to resolving our difficulties.
Holding unity and truth together requires great patience, endurance, love, grace, mercy, humility and courage, which is why most people (and most churches) prefer to sacrifice either truth or unity for the other. But each of us as Christians has a responsibility to be committed to every other Christian, not just those who think like us, or who belong to the same branch of the church. Being a truly committed member of Christ's body means that every other Christian is my brother or sister to whom I owe responsibility.
Saturday, September 29, 2007
God is...
God is so many things, faithful, love, good, self-existing. Those are only a few of the many things.
I was really hit by something that was said in a sermon last sunday. That God is self-existing. He doesn't need us, he doesn't need anything. He has been, is now, and forever will be. It is so hard to wrap your head around, and it gets me into a deep mind maze thinking how it could work.
Sometimes we often by play our sins thinking that since the price is paid, (which it is) and that it doesn't really affect the pain that Jesus went through. But the reality is that God holds the time line, and even to this day it still pains him when we sin. It can really impact your decion to sin, when you are on the line of sining and not sining. Also, it is so amazing to think that God really loves us enough to continually forgive us over and over agian.
God is still the same God he was thousands or even millions of years ago. He still is the creator, he still is that powerful God that made walls fall, and armies surrender to God's children. He never learns anything; He knows everything about us, and everything we will be or do in the future and he still holds out his hand to us.
Amazing.
I was really hit by something that was said in a sermon last sunday. That God is self-existing. He doesn't need us, he doesn't need anything. He has been, is now, and forever will be. It is so hard to wrap your head around, and it gets me into a deep mind maze thinking how it could work.
Sometimes we often by play our sins thinking that since the price is paid, (which it is) and that it doesn't really affect the pain that Jesus went through. But the reality is that God holds the time line, and even to this day it still pains him when we sin. It can really impact your decion to sin, when you are on the line of sining and not sining. Also, it is so amazing to think that God really loves us enough to continually forgive us over and over agian.
God is still the same God he was thousands or even millions of years ago. He still is the creator, he still is that powerful God that made walls fall, and armies surrender to God's children. He never learns anything; He knows everything about us, and everything we will be or do in the future and he still holds out his hand to us.
Amazing.
Friday, August 24, 2007
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Blind?!?!
Why are people so blind? I just can't seem to grasp it. People always want to stay where they are comfortable, and are not willing to examine things, and possibly see things that are wrong.
If a group of people feel something isn't right, then why do we want to write it off instead of really take a look at what could potentially be a problem?
Shouldn't there be a longing to make things right?
If a group of people feel something isn't right, then why do we want to write it off instead of really take a look at what could potentially be a problem?
Shouldn't there be a longing to make things right?
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Pondering myself
Well, I have been pondering once again....
About the body of Christ...What can we and should we expect from one another?
Shouldn't we be willing to sacrifice for our brothers and sisters?
If we all helped one another.. then nobody would be left without help, struggling with no one to help them though.
If we are the body, why are his arms reaching, why is his love not showing?
About the body of Christ...What can we and should we expect from one another?
Shouldn't we be willing to sacrifice for our brothers and sisters?
If we all helped one another.. then nobody would be left without help, struggling with no one to help them though.
If we are the body, why are his arms reaching, why is his love not showing?
Friday, July 20, 2007
Vernon
For anyone who still reads my blog:
I went on an amazing trip to Vernon, and Summerland, this past week, and it was amazing.
I never thought how many first time things that can happen to you in one time.
My first time:
Being in summerland
Going camping
Playing in a storm
Going to the drive in
Going camping
Swimming in a lake
Having a bird poo on my head
Times you never forget, and events, and people that make you never want to come back.
I went on an amazing trip to Vernon, and Summerland, this past week, and it was amazing.
I never thought how many first time things that can happen to you in one time.
My first time:
Being in summerland
Going camping
Playing in a storm
Going to the drive in
Going camping
Swimming in a lake
Having a bird poo on my head
Times you never forget, and events, and people that make you never want to come back.
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