Well I hope you had a great weekend, mine sure had it's moments, one of them being homeless for a few hours and living in a box. Let's just say it was a fun time!
Other than that, my weekend was a little rough, I just wrote down how I was feeling and it made a lot more sense. I guess one line that kind of sums it all up is, "I need to pull up my socks..."
Or, in the words of Paul, "Run for your life."
1 Timothy 6:11-12
- But you, Timothy, man of God: Run for your life. Pursue a righteous life - a life of wonder, faith, love, steadiness, courtesy. Run hard and fast in the faith. Seize the eternal life, the life you were called to. -
Sometimes I get this mindset that it doesn't matter what I do, life is going to go on, and in the end, there will be a happy ending, because it's God... And in my mind, God doesn't believe in sad endings.
HA! Funny! I kind of had a slap in the face moment. It does matter, it matters a lot. Yes, I am so small in the scheme of things, but the amazing part is that God cares what I do. As trivial as it may seem, my actions, my words, my thoughts have a profound effect on the people I come in contact with on a daily basis.
In the same chapter of 1 Timothy it says, "... and don't slack off." I think that is fairly straight forward. Paul is talking to Timothy when He is sharing these wise words, Timothy went on to be a great man of God, I WANT to be a great man of God. Who's with me? Yeah, you can be a woman too, no worries! Who's with me?
Instead of constantly crawling back to my Dad and asking for forgiveness, asking to be built up, asking for a way out of things, I want to be coming back to my dad with good news, with incredible love, full of joy. I want to be coming back asking for strength to take on more and more. I want to grow closer and stronger.
Psalm 92
- What a beautiful thing God, to announce your love each day break, sing your faithful presence all through the night! -
When I read that part of Psam 92, I think about living like that, without regret, I picture sweet bliss! I picture my life totally in the will of God, waking up in the morning ready to shout, and singing until I fall asleep. Now that is what life should be. Perhaps when paul said, "Run for your life, and pursue a righteous life", this is what He meant.
Let's have faith that with God's strength we can rise above anything that is thrown in our direction, shed light in times of darkness and overcome things that we seem to think are impossible. It's possible, we are called to do the impossible with help from God. Let's embrace that, let's pull up our socks and "Just do it" ... just like Nike.
-Colton
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