The Good Samaratin

Have you ever wondered what the Good Samaratin story would look like today? I think so many of us consider ourselves to be good people, and we would even go so far as to place ourselves in the role of the good samaratin. You stop and give a beggar five dollars, you take clothes to the shelter, you give your 10% (plus some) back to church... and so on and so on...

You know there were a lot of people in both the Old and New Testament that did all of these things and more... and yet their stories are not glorified in the Bible in the form of a parable for all generations to model after...

The Good Samaratin... He didn't just stop and check to see if he was ok... he didn't just give him a few bucks and send him off... He pciked him up, clothed him, bathed him, transported him to safety and provided the means for him to be safe and recover from his experience...

In todays litagation happy society, we all seem so interested in, "How do I get mine..." When was the last time you witnessed someone putting themselves out there for the sake of someone elses well being... beter yet when was the last time you truelly put yourself out there for someone elses well being... I must admit that for the last several years and even more so lately, I have been putting myself in the role of the man on the side of the road waiting for someone to help me... I have been consumed in my own pitty party, that I'm not even sure that I have noticed those that have really needed my help.

What would he look like today... would he pay for somone's hospital stay... would he pay their utility bill, buy them clothes, fix their house, pay their rent, fix their car... How far would the Good Samaratin go? He didn't just buy the man a meal...

--- Dear Lord my Father, my Friend, my Savior.... Dear Lord my KING, I bow before you and ask for your mercy, I have not been a faithful servant and I pray that you will forgive my transgressions... Lord, guide my spirit and lift me out of my own self-pity and let me be the servant you have asked me to be. Thankyou for all that you have put in my life. In Jesus's name...

Marriage

Same day different topic...

As I look around me and see what the world thinks of marriage and love and relationships, I hope that my wife and I are more of an influence on my children than the world is...

My wife and I have been married for a 15 1/2 years for one and only one reason. We swore before God, family and friends that we were commitng the rest of our live together. We have not always loved each other, we have not even always liked each other. There are days that we can not even stand to be in the same room as each other.

But somwhere deep down inside I know that this is life. There is no one in this world that I can say I want to spend every waking moment of everyday of my life with. We are all going to disagree, we are all going to fight. The difference between my wife and the rest of the world is that I never swore to love the rest of teh world for eternity.

I love my wife more than life itself. Yes, there are things about her that drive me insane, there are parts of her life and personality that make me want to scream. But, I am not so ignorant to believe that she does not feel the same way about me.

I do not know what the future may hold and I can not swear that nothing will ever drive us apart... But, I can swear that it won't happen without a fight...

I am here because I love her...
I am here because I promised I would be...
I am here becase God expects me to be...

I AM HERE!

where are you?

Haunted

Have you ever been haunted by dreams... I don't know that there is really a point to this blog but hey its mine and I can write whatever I want to right...

The last few days I have been haunted by my dreams... I wake up feeling lost and disconected. When I was little I put a lot into my dreams or rather I read a lot into my dreams. There were many times that I felt that God direclty answered my prayers in my dreams... there were other times that I would see the future in my dreams... Many people don't believe me when I say this but its true... there were times when I would dream entire days and then they would unfold exactly as they had in my dream...

Later in life I was put on anti-depressants for a short time... this completely warped my dreams... I was dreaming in all five senses. Boy was that a trip...

For the better part of my life I have had extreme cases of Deja Vu...

But none of these are what I am experincing right now. I am dreaming about long lost friends, past events, places and people and things that I have not seen or thought of in many many years. The dreams themselves are not bad, its not like bad dreams or dreams of people dieing... they just leaving me wondering. What is going on in my subconcious, or is God trying to talk to me...

Half of me wants to go back to sleep so that I can find the answers... half of me dreads the night because I am tired of dreaming the same places and people...

Over the last 6 months to a year I have been praying that God would return to me gifts that I seem to have posessed as a child but that I lost somwhere along the way... Maybe these dreams are an answer to those prayers, but the images without understanding are leaving me worried and concerned for what is coming, or what I may have already left behind.

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Be safe my friends, hold your dear ones close.