thoughts and things; thrifty throwing thieves

So lately I've been thinking about a lot of concepts that god has floating around in my head.
Like for one, I think God, or maybe just me; is a little upset at the little things that divide us as a body of christ. The christian faith is desperately in need of unity. Why should non-believers take us seriously as another way of living life, if we can't even follow what we believe and stress so fervently. We are to follow after Christ and what he did. Some of the little things that divide us are so miniscule that it makes me wonder whether or not athiests and other groups just sort of laugh at us and call us hypocrites. I feel a bit like a hypocrite when we can't even get along; neigh, sometimes get in spirited debates (lets not call them fights) over some really; well for lack of better word; stupid things.


Also, I've been thinking about what it really means to follow Christ; and not our heart. Too many times we think that what we feel is what is right. Oh man is that so wrong. My heart is off on so many things I kind of just want to tell it to shut up sometimes. God needs to be in control so we can change our state of heart. So many times we honestly and truly believe that what we are doing is of God, when we are really just rolling around in a pit of mud that is our sin. We really need to take daily time to question what we do and our reasoning behind it. Like deeply considering what we do when no one is looking (God always is-which can be kinda creepy to think about to peole new in their faith, but is usually the exact thought we need to help us get out of what we're in).


now for some time with God.


peace.
jordan.

for those who speak one language:

sorry for the spanish. i was feeling spanish-e. anyways i'm feeling really pumped about some of the stuff god is working out for me. my fine arts sermon is progressing steadily ( i like to think so) and it is about ... well the theme overall is "Extraordinary"

and so i got to thinkin' (sorry charity for thinkin', but i had to do it)

all the people god put in the bible were extraordinary right? granted some of them were extraordinarily bad, but most of the main characters in the bible were extraordinary. when i think about that, i also think

"would my life be worth putting in the bible?"
and if so, for an example of how to be or how not to be?

all of us are called to be these extraodinary people who move mountains and who God is so proud of that he would put us in a book for millions, sorry trillions to read. but so many times we fall short of this. a big issue with this is that we are scared of how great we are to be, so with fear comes low expectations, because at least with low expectations we can expect our low results, and for some reason our thought process legitimizes us doing poorly because we expected to. we are called to do greater things than our christ jesus did on earth. that is not something to be taken lightly. that is an incredible thought. and scary.

but what we need to get from this is work. a wise man once said, "the only way you get anywhere in life is work". I believe that to be partially true. now we could wallow in our ocean of self pity claiming we will never be good enough, smart enough, big enough to fill god's shoes; or we can put on some gloves and start the work before we complain about it's severity.



[short synopsis of sermon]

[please speak your mind]

espanish

Yo tengo sueño. Yo quiero descansar. También yo quiero ver scrubs pero yo necesito dormir.