The eve of '09

I'm excited about 2009.

I really believe this year will be a significant year on God's calendar. 

2008 has past. With all it was. 

The beauty of a new year is we can take stock of our lives and look at who we are.   

We can evaluate what it is that defines us. 

We can change what is out of order, re vive old passions, adjust things that need adjusting. 

Don't look back!

Go into 2009 with a gritty determination to be all that God has called you to be. 

a life dream

You have to have a dream, you have to have something you're living for

No matter what opposition you get

No matter what those negative people say

You have to stick to your dream

Those negative people are all wrong

Or are they?

There is a fine line between stupidity and pursuing a dream

An open heart to God is the dream we must pursue.

To be able to obey whatever God says, whether understood or not, just because we trust Him, is the the door to living out our purpose throughout our earthly lives.

Otherwise God just becomes another negative person who stops you from achieving 'what you were born for.'

who we are

I've just been thinking of the importance of who we are through our actions. Not through what we say. I find myself judging  a preacher by his character before I judge his content. Content is important, but its whether or not the person is believable that would cause me to buy in on their knowledge. 

Believability is only found in action. The little things that we think no one takes care to notice. Some how we carry those things like badges on our clothes, for all to see…The only fool being ourselves, to think that the little bad seeds we sow wont turn into massive trees bearing a multiplication of fruit. 

God doesn't respond to need. 

Only to faith. 

Hey!

Just logged in to this account for the first time in ages. I miss it!

Well I think it is time to maybe start writing again...I don't know if anyone checks this anymore. everyone is on facebook now!

Here's something I was thinking anyway-

Learning to take the lessons of the past with us into the future with us is harder than it seems.

If a child burns himself on a hot iron, he won't touch it again, in fact he wont go near it. Because it hurts! 

In life we get burnt, we get hurt. We learn to protect ourselves. We don't go near the things again. We don't take the same risks, we don't step out in the same faith we once did. Because it hurts too much. We remember the pain of the failure, we have the burn scars on our hearts to prove it. 

I picked up a hot iron today to iron my shirt and it didn't burn me. Because I know where to hold it. Imagine if I never learnt an iron has a handle...all the crinkled shirts I would have worn!

Maybe we can apply this to life. We need to pick up the things that potentially can hurt us again, just not the same way. Approach it differently. 

Maybe you'll be surprised. 

Galatians 6:9 Let us not become weary doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.