What I believe

Sometimes I write random things in word documents just as self declarations and then I read the later and agree or disagree with what I may or may not have believed so many days, months or years ago...

Sometimes as I have become addicted to FB I have posted these thoughts in what I credited to the "Pontificating Fool" or the "Facebook Prophet"... This morning I was reading a couple of things that I had written several months ago and I'm not sure if they ever got posted on FB or not... But seeing as how this is my blog and there are very few people (if any) that actually read this... I am going to post them here because I can...

First: Over the last several months my life has been full of storms... I have often equated my life to that of Jonah. I often feel like I am in the belly of the whale waiting for God, thankful to be out of the sea yet not sure whats going to happen next. But before you can find yourself in the belly of the whale you must first pass through the storms... I find it interesting that the faith of Jonah was not unlike that of Jesus. In both stories, as the sailed through unimaginable storms... while everyone else panicked... they slept. Their faith that everything was ok, everything was in the hands of God allowed them to sleep in the midst of the storm... I think more often than not I am like the sailors and the apostles... I panick in the storm. I beg and plead and pray that God will save us, instead of being at peace, knowing that GOd has already saved us...

For a long time, most of my life in fact... I have prayed that God would make my life peaceful that he would stop the chaos... I now believe that the power of the spirit (the true power of the spirit) is not to make our lives peaceful but rather to allow us to ba at peace in the midst of chaos...

SO my prayer for you is not that God will bring you peace, but rather that he will allow you to "Be At Peace" wherever you are.

SECOND: I have come to believe that Christ was not perfect... yes you heard me correctly... don't run off yet! You see I reached this conclusion by deductive reasoning and rational thought... The Bible says that we should be like Christ, it also tells us that Christ was Human... and over the years I have strived to be perfect like Christ, and as a human I know that I can never achieve perfection. This futility brings fear and doubt. The realization that Christ was in fact Human, there-by NOT PERFECT... leads me to the conclusion that he was an imperfect being that made perfect choices...

He chose to not look at pornography...
He chose to help the poor...
He chose to heal the sick...
and he chose to go to the cross...

I can never be perfect... but I can make perfect descisions (or at least try to). I can chose to be a better husband, I can chose to be a better father, I can chose to not steal, or cheat, or lie... I may not be able to goto the cross and save the world... But I can show the cross to the world and maybe save a few...

May today be brighter than your yesterday.