Future

In church today, the speaker spoke about giving up everything and following Jesus. She was saying to follow him all the way, you needed to leave everything and just focus on the future. I sat there taking it all in and thought about my own life. It wasn't easy. The things that have happened to me haven't been the greatest but the speaker talked about a verse, I think it was in Galatians, about forgetting the things of the past and just focusing on the future. It takes a while to take stuff like that in. You know that God is saying something through that just to you.

Something else that caught my attention was her talking about raising your hand to do something for God but then saying 'Hang on a minute... You want me to do what?! Uh... sorry Lord but you've chosen the wrong person, John Doe is so much better then me at stuff like that. Maybe next time?' Have you ever done that? I know I have. I have stuffed up so many times that there are too many things to count. But I'm realising that God uses imperfect people all the time to do amazing stuff. Take Saul/Paul for example. He went around persecuting Christians but once God met with him, Paul went on to be an amazing man. God forgives us as long as we want to be forgiven. AND he doesn't keep a record of our wrongs. Great huh?

Anyway, time to go, but think about the future today, don't stick with the past, because God has greater things in store in the futre.

God Bless

A Wondering Christian

Jeremiah 29.11

Isn't it hard sometimes to not get what you want? When you want something to happen but it doesnt't? God has everything in control, even if it doesn't seem like it. It's hard when you ask him for something to happen that you really really want, but then he says no. We need to realise though, me included, that he gives the answer he gives for a reason; because he loves us and he cares for us. We may not see it now, but when we look back in the future, we will see that God was working on something so amazing, that we had to let go of the things we wanted in the past for it to happen.

'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord. 'Plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you a hope and a future.'
Jeremiah 29.11

Hope your week is going well
God Bless

A Wondering Christian

Just Sitting and Listening

I'm reading a series by Sandra Byrd at the moment and I've found that the main character, Lexi, goes through similar issues with her relationship with God as I do. She finds it hard to hear God. I don't know about you but, but I, like Lexi, find that it's hard to hear the voice of God and what he wants me to do in the different situations that I find myself in. Somehow though, I do find his voice amongst the chaos of everyday life (cliche I know but true :)). I fond if I just sit and listen to the things around me, that is when I hear his voice. He speaks to us in so many different ways, like through the Bible, through music, through worship, through others, the list could go on forever. But whatever way that you find you can hear his voice, pursue it with all your heart.

Just sit and listen for a while, maybe he has been calling you for a long time and all you need to do is listen...

A Wondering Christian

Hazlenut Spread

As I take another teaspoonful of Nutella out of the jar, I wondered, what God would have thought of the hazelnut spread. I personally thinl he made it just so we didn't have to eat a whole block of chocolate in one sitting. Maybe not because I'm sure a whole jar of Nutella could be eaten in one sitting. I believe though, that hazelnut spread is one of the small pleasures in life that He has given us. When it is in the house you always know that you're sanwhich or piece of chocolate slice is going to be the tiny bit more special then it is when you have the usual peanut butter or chocolate icing on it. The tiny pleasures in life are the things that God gives us to keep us going. They are the small miricles in everyday life (and who says God doesn't perform miricles anymore!). I think the thing about miricles is that we have forgotten how powerful God really is. He can do anything if we truely believe with our heart of hearts.

Just a thought to ponder on.

God Bless
A Wondering Christian