I find it amazing at how much our nation has changed. We were once a nation under God. Now everything is thought out according to "will this offend anyone at all?" You look at how people used to say "Merry Christmas." Now they just say "Happy holidays" so they won't 'happen' to offend someone by using a word with "Christ" in it. The military now allows homosexuals in...so they won't "offend" them by saying they can't do something. People are afraid to express their objections because someone around them might believe something different, and you wouldn't possibly want to offend them!
I wonder, where has the "right and wrong" gone? It's not a matter of what people know is right and wrong nowadays, people simply say "everyone thinks of right and wrong differently, and people should be allowed to have their personal opinions on the matter"...according to the world now, we don't set a right and wrong, people decide for themselves what is "right" and what is "wrong." People read the constitution wrong to fit what they think it should mean, instead of what the writers intended. They've thrown the ten commandments out the window...thinking it will make them feel better about doing wrong, yet, that feeling of guilt will forever be with them, because God has written the law on the hearts of all men.
I try to think when we'll get fed up with all of it. We let it by so long, then one day when it's REALLY bad, we finally open our eyes, and our surroundings have been totally flipped from "good" to... sad. We tolerate, and we tolerate. You know, big problems come from small problems going undelt with. All these things that we see now, all these problems that are so "big"..if we would have taken the time to see them before, they could have been stopped before they got too far. Now we're suffering the consequences. Do we change? Of course not. That would take work, time...maybe even some sweat. We have become so lazy that we won't even stand up for what's right. Making money, buying extravagant things with that money, partying, having "fun," putting every hour of our day into getting a "good education," "getting away" and going to relax....have we put all of these things over keeping our freedom? Have we become to lazy and just, totally blind, that we think we can get everything, without having to do anything?
The question is...do we really want a "Nation under God"? Or just a nation that will do everything for us? Do we want "freedom," or do we want to give that up because we're not willing to work for anything? Once we stop "doing"...that is the day we will lose our freedom. Our nation was set up so that the people would have a say in what happens, so we could worship, speak, work, and live freely. The minute we stop standing up for what's right, stop working, and letting things slide because we tell ourselves we couldn't do anything anyway...that, my friends, is the minute the government will gladly take over and slowly take away our freedoms.
We cannot just stand by and let everything go as it it now. We must stand up for ourselves...because, honestly, nobody else will.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
- - - - Just Do It - - - -
"Peace be still."
I'm sure most of you remember the story in the Bible about Jesus calming the waters with those three words. The men on that boat were full of fear...terrified that they were going to die, and that Jesus didn't care. They even asked Him, "Don't you care if we die?" Yet, Jesus spoke three little words and that deathly storm was gone quicker than it had come.
How often do we get stressed, dragged down by problems in our life, hard times when we don't think we'll make it to the next day...? It seems, at those times, that our life is like that storm. We are terrified what will happen, and, in our minds, Jesus is simply sleeping. We continually ask Him, "Lord, do you not care about me?" What we don't understand, is that He isn't sleeping at all. He wants us to have faith, faith that HE is bigger than this storm, and that, in HIS timing (not ours) everything will turn out just as He planned.
God doesn't let our life fall apart. I've said before that, when we feel like the weight of the world in on our shoulders, like nothing is going right, like we're lost and don't know what to do next, or trying to decide whether or not to move on with a decision...it means that we haven't given all of our cares to God. He NEVER intended us to carry so much, our bodies can't handle it, our minds can't handle it..but He can. God is no less in control of our lives than He was of that storm.
My mom once told me that I am probably the most stressed child she's ever seen. I don't know what my problem is honestly. I write about giving all your cares to God, it all comes from my heart, but I don't think it penetrates my brain. I really think it's one of my "faults." However, lately, slowly, I've been doing a little bit better...for the most part. When a day comes that I'm running around the world driving from one place to another on a time crunch, I'll get really stressed. Even though everything goes just fine. lol Thinking on it, I think it comes down to my biggest fault (the one I've had ever since I was little bity.) Self esteem/worth. I guess I just think I have to do everything perfect to make everyone happy and like me, and if I fail at even once small thing, I've failed the whole day.
Slowly this year I've been working through a lot of things. I've given up SO many stressful things already, but let me tell you, my life is a journey. I'm always going to be working through things. The one thing that I think we all need to constantly keep on our minds, is that God is there, 24/7. There is never a time He doesn't want us to talk to Him, never a time He's too busy or doesn't care about what we're struggling with.
So, again, I ask you. Will you give your cares to God?
On a slightly different note here...but still partly the same...
I've been thinking lately, about how I put things off, or get scared when a chance comes up to do something. I back off and later regret not doing or saying whatever it was. So, I've been trying a new approach to my life. The "Just do it" challenge. If there's something I want to do, but am kind of scared, uncertain, or whatever the case may be, I just go for it. (I over think things way too much normally.) You know what? I've felt SO much better about myself afterwords, and didn't have any regrets about the situation! Besides, God is on my side, what have I to fear? What if you wanted to tell someone something, ask them a question, or just DO something, and that person, or you, died the next day. Would you leave this earth with regrets? You know, nobody is promised tomorrow...we're not even promised another second. You could fall over dead right now. Your parents could get into a car accident, your sibling could get shot, your friend could get kidnapped, killed, etc. What all have you not told these people? I know that when I don't tell people things, I stress about it SO much, and it keeps me awake at night, and when I do sleep, I have nightmares about it. If you're struggling with something, ask God for the strength to "just do it." Pray that, if it's His will, God will help you get out all you need to say, or that you can strongly DO whatever you need to do.
So the challenge for this week, month, year...the rest of your life, your choice...is to pray for God's guidance, and "just do it."
I'm sure most of you remember the story in the Bible about Jesus calming the waters with those three words. The men on that boat were full of fear...terrified that they were going to die, and that Jesus didn't care. They even asked Him, "Don't you care if we die?" Yet, Jesus spoke three little words and that deathly storm was gone quicker than it had come.
How often do we get stressed, dragged down by problems in our life, hard times when we don't think we'll make it to the next day...? It seems, at those times, that our life is like that storm. We are terrified what will happen, and, in our minds, Jesus is simply sleeping. We continually ask Him, "Lord, do you not care about me?" What we don't understand, is that He isn't sleeping at all. He wants us to have faith, faith that HE is bigger than this storm, and that, in HIS timing (not ours) everything will turn out just as He planned.
God doesn't let our life fall apart. I've said before that, when we feel like the weight of the world in on our shoulders, like nothing is going right, like we're lost and don't know what to do next, or trying to decide whether or not to move on with a decision...it means that we haven't given all of our cares to God. He NEVER intended us to carry so much, our bodies can't handle it, our minds can't handle it..but He can. God is no less in control of our lives than He was of that storm.
My mom once told me that I am probably the most stressed child she's ever seen. I don't know what my problem is honestly. I write about giving all your cares to God, it all comes from my heart, but I don't think it penetrates my brain. I really think it's one of my "faults." However, lately, slowly, I've been doing a little bit better...for the most part. When a day comes that I'm running around the world driving from one place to another on a time crunch, I'll get really stressed. Even though everything goes just fine. lol Thinking on it, I think it comes down to my biggest fault (the one I've had ever since I was little bity.) Self esteem/worth. I guess I just think I have to do everything perfect to make everyone happy and like me, and if I fail at even once small thing, I've failed the whole day.
Slowly this year I've been working through a lot of things. I've given up SO many stressful things already, but let me tell you, my life is a journey. I'm always going to be working through things. The one thing that I think we all need to constantly keep on our minds, is that God is there, 24/7. There is never a time He doesn't want us to talk to Him, never a time He's too busy or doesn't care about what we're struggling with.
So, again, I ask you. Will you give your cares to God?
On a slightly different note here...but still partly the same...
I've been thinking lately, about how I put things off, or get scared when a chance comes up to do something. I back off and later regret not doing or saying whatever it was. So, I've been trying a new approach to my life. The "Just do it" challenge. If there's something I want to do, but am kind of scared, uncertain, or whatever the case may be, I just go for it. (I over think things way too much normally.) You know what? I've felt SO much better about myself afterwords, and didn't have any regrets about the situation! Besides, God is on my side, what have I to fear? What if you wanted to tell someone something, ask them a question, or just DO something, and that person, or you, died the next day. Would you leave this earth with regrets? You know, nobody is promised tomorrow...we're not even promised another second. You could fall over dead right now. Your parents could get into a car accident, your sibling could get shot, your friend could get kidnapped, killed, etc. What all have you not told these people? I know that when I don't tell people things, I stress about it SO much, and it keeps me awake at night, and when I do sleep, I have nightmares about it. If you're struggling with something, ask God for the strength to "just do it." Pray that, if it's His will, God will help you get out all you need to say, or that you can strongly DO whatever you need to do.
So the challenge for this week, month, year...the rest of your life, your choice...is to pray for God's guidance, and "just do it."
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