When I was young and growing up, my parents didn't have alot of money nor the technical no-how to buy or operate things like video games or television. I actually got the T.V. in my house when I was around 10 years old. Man I would just sit and sit watching all the neat shows on that violent wave projecting machine for hours and hours. But I'm actually glad I didn't get an actual video game or t.v. until I did, because it taught me there was more to life than just those two addictive things.
Anyway, thats another story entirely, my point was, when I was growing up, I learnt other pass times, like riding my bike with my dad, or playing monopoly with my sister or programming with my buddy Decan. Even listening to the radio, man I remember records man, they were so cool, I had the turkish march on one of them, it was awesome. Anyway, my sister was so pro at monopoly. I mean she would win like all the time. I mean Donald Trump would have problems facing her finacial and buisness oriented skills that she had in that game. I now wonder why she is always so bad at budgeting her money now a days if she was so good at in a board game. Anyway, she would always win, and I would really get depressed from playing monopoly, because we all know the feeling of not winning right? It sucks. Well think of how it would feel when we lose at the game "Life", no not the board game, but the reward God has for those who choose him at the end of it. Anyway that is another blog. My point orginally was that I would be so overcome with losing that I would find ways of increasing my chances. Obviously, you've either stopped reading my huge chunk of writing and their is no point to keep typing except for the fact that God brought this occasion up, and their is a loyal person reading what is being viewed on their monitor and has obviously read the title and learnt that I cheated in monopoly. God is funny though, because even when I get $50,000 extra dollars out of thin air my sister would still beat me.
Anyway the point I'm going to make is clear for those that read "The Purpose Driven Life", for those who haven't here is a little story.
Lets say your born again, and your now playing the fun game of "Life for God". Well instead of money, God gives us gifts. Well thats great, gifts are awesome, remember why Christmas and birthdays are the best afterall ( if your me the answer is food, but thats not the point). God gives us these gifts with one requirement, that we use them to serve others. Well, your probably saying, I don't see people to serve. Well you do more often then you think. Maybe you picked up a card from the encounter pile, and you drew "Friend is being bullied" card or the ever famous "Your friends are offering you drugs, and you know it isn't cheese as they say it is" card. Well God doesn't leave things up to chance, he leaves them up to choice ( haha yes you can quote that, it's prophetic). Instead of rolling the dice, he lets you decide whether or not to serve God by serving others. Whether is be standing up for what you believe in, or helping those in need, serving can be done in many ways. Your friend needs a bus ticket, and you only have one? Well you could say sorry, I only got one, or you could give him yours. That is the gift of hospitality and well service. There are many more examples I could give, like, oh your youth pastor is sick and can't go to the youth group meeting in an hour and will have to cancel because he couldn't find a speaker. Well God puts you in these situations for a reason. TO USE YOUR GIFTS. God's not going to put you in a situation where you couldn't do anything to help. Thats what service is, sacrificing something to help someone other than your self. It could be time, money, etc. He puts you in situations to serve people, we just need to read the cards we pick up and instead of taking out a loan, we should use what God has already given us.
Umm..
Well IDK...
Stop cheating others by not using your gifts to serve, whether it be in ministry or through your mission. Heck you can just serve without using your gifts, but it requires sacrifice. What are you so attached to selfishly that is holding you back from serving others?
-Brent
Tried to be as coherent as I could, but it's late. Night y'all.
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Ok it's been a week NOW WHERE ARE ALL THE BLOGS ABOUT ME?
Seriously, it's really sad that you guys obviously don't love me enough to write a blog about me. I can be cool right? No, there isn't anything bloggable about me? Fine... *sobs*
Anyway Good news.
God told me awhile back to start this Youth group thing at school that had to do with God, basically he told me it was going to be a safe place where Christians can just be who God created them to be, and be in a place where you can re-enforce topics during the school day to help motivate you to step out of your comfort box of comfort and make an impact for Christ in the School. Well when I told the Counsoller about this, he said that I could do it, but I couldn't make it like an offical club, just like a group discussion group, that is if I grabbed a couple of my friends and talked about God in a room. Well I got a room, and after the strike I decided to hold a Discussion about the group with a bunch of Christian peeps who are really stoked about this and really stoked about God.
If your interested in ever showing up and go to our school (New Westminster Secondary School) it is on Wednesdays at 11:28am - 12:18pm in Room 225, it's in the upstairs Massey Wing. The first meeting was basically a, what do you want this group to be like, and the actual first meeting it on tomorrow.
If you can't come, then just pray that God will have an impact on the school, I mean this is just the spark of the fire that is about to burn through the school. No I'm not an arsonist, but I'm talking about the consuming fire of the holy spirit.
Now then, where are your blogs about me?
-Brent
PS. Umm if I left out anything important, please tell me.
Anyway Good news.
God told me awhile back to start this Youth group thing at school that had to do with God, basically he told me it was going to be a safe place where Christians can just be who God created them to be, and be in a place where you can re-enforce topics during the school day to help motivate you to step out of your comfort box of comfort and make an impact for Christ in the School. Well when I told the Counsoller about this, he said that I could do it, but I couldn't make it like an offical club, just like a group discussion group, that is if I grabbed a couple of my friends and talked about God in a room. Well I got a room, and after the strike I decided to hold a Discussion about the group with a bunch of Christian peeps who are really stoked about this and really stoked about God.
If your interested in ever showing up and go to our school (New Westminster Secondary School) it is on Wednesdays at 11:28am - 12:18pm in Room 225, it's in the upstairs Massey Wing. The first meeting was basically a, what do you want this group to be like, and the actual first meeting it on tomorrow.
If you can't come, then just pray that God will have an impact on the school, I mean this is just the spark of the fire that is about to burn through the school. No I'm not an arsonist, but I'm talking about the consuming fire of the holy spirit.
Now then, where are your blogs about me?
-Brent
PS. Umm if I left out anything important, please tell me.
Thursday, October 13, 2005
My week.
I've been off school due to the strike and been lacking in actually focusing on God. So I've been doing stuff for him more recently, and well here are some of the great stuff that has happened in the week.
Oh ya, probably the highlight of my week summed up here. WINGNUT!!!!
W00t!
This is what I get for forgetting over and over to borrow the drum tuner from Karyn.
What the site is probably going to look like.
Any questions?
Where are your blog's about me? We decided last week that you would write blogs about me.... I feel betrayed.
-Brent
I had a dream...
Seriously I barely remember my dreams, like ever, most of the time I feel like I don't have dreams, but we all do, it's just some times you don't remember them. Since my memory sucks, you could say, I never dream.
So last night I had this weird, weird dream. I woke up right at the end of it, so maybe that is why I remembered it. But I wrote it down on a piece of paper in case it has any signifigance. I asked God what it meant, but now I forget what he said.
Anyway here is what happened in my dream.
Ok so, I was hanging out at the church for some odd reason, and it was late at night, really, really late. Like 11pm late. Well anyway for some reason me and Karyn were still at the church and she decided to give me a ride home because it was so late ( Which made it seem so realistic because in reality Karyn Baker is not a jerk, so she would do something like that).
Anyway, here is where the weird part comes in. We were standing in the parking lot, and then there was a large rumble from the ground, we thought it was an earthquake, but as we went towards Karyn's car, lava spewed up from the ground, behind her car, not under it, and was making a large hole growing deeper and deeper full of lava, either that or the lava was rising. Anyway, I said lets go, and Karyn was all like " What about my car?", and I said, "Leave it", and Karyn made a big fuss out of letting her car get ruined, but anyway for some reason we decided running along 6th. Eventually we saw Cory, in the middle of the sidewalk and he started running as well, as he saw what followed us. On the way we were warning people, I told people not to freak out, and near the theatre on 6th I said God bless at the end of warning someone, and there was a blind person in the crowd. He asked if I could ask God to heal him. For some odd reason I said reach out and touch me, and he said, ok as long as you keep talking. When he finally touched me I quoted Jesus saying, your faith has healed you. And he was healed by God.
Then I woke up. What a crazy dream. Almost as crazy as the time I was in a heard of sheep and the alpha sheep let me ride him after finding his long lost sister... well thats a whole other blog.
-Brent
PS. 1 DAY!
So last night I had this weird, weird dream. I woke up right at the end of it, so maybe that is why I remembered it. But I wrote it down on a piece of paper in case it has any signifigance. I asked God what it meant, but now I forget what he said.
Anyway here is what happened in my dream.
Ok so, I was hanging out at the church for some odd reason, and it was late at night, really, really late. Like 11pm late. Well anyway for some reason me and Karyn were still at the church and she decided to give me a ride home because it was so late ( Which made it seem so realistic because in reality Karyn Baker is not a jerk, so she would do something like that).
Anyway, here is where the weird part comes in. We were standing in the parking lot, and then there was a large rumble from the ground, we thought it was an earthquake, but as we went towards Karyn's car, lava spewed up from the ground, behind her car, not under it, and was making a large hole growing deeper and deeper full of lava, either that or the lava was rising. Anyway, I said lets go, and Karyn was all like " What about my car?", and I said, "Leave it", and Karyn made a big fuss out of letting her car get ruined, but anyway for some reason we decided running along 6th. Eventually we saw Cory, in the middle of the sidewalk and he started running as well, as he saw what followed us. On the way we were warning people, I told people not to freak out, and near the theatre on 6th I said God bless at the end of warning someone, and there was a blind person in the crowd. He asked if I could ask God to heal him. For some odd reason I said reach out and touch me, and he said, ok as long as you keep talking. When he finally touched me I quoted Jesus saying, your faith has healed you. And he was healed by God.
Then I woke up. What a crazy dream. Almost as crazy as the time I was in a heard of sheep and the alpha sheep let me ride him after finding his long lost sister... well thats a whole other blog.
-Brent
PS. 1 DAY!
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Website update.
So I told MarcJon we are getting this server ready at the end of October, and he hasn't really done a lot for the forum he tells me. So I'm waiting on him, and IDEAS FROM YOU GUYS!
Sheesh... If no one other than Jen gives me ideas, she is going to win the prize.
Baker... Help... Please.
Well, I either will stick with that red template I was working on if any one of you guys tells me what to name the thing, and gives me some ideas. YES YOU CAN POST THEM ON HERE.
I also have a CSS design in the works, if we don't get a fancy name that has zip to it.
Besides CSS just makes me look so pro, when making a website.
Bah, I thought you guys were excited about this, but from your lack of input, I'm left in the dark about your enthusiam. Seriously the spell check wasn't helping me when my brain went blank on how to spell that.
-Brent ( not happy mind you... *shakes fist*)
Sheesh... If no one other than Jen gives me ideas, she is going to win the prize.
Baker... Help... Please.
Well, I either will stick with that red template I was working on if any one of you guys tells me what to name the thing, and gives me some ideas. YES YOU CAN POST THEM ON HERE.
I also have a CSS design in the works, if we don't get a fancy name that has zip to it.
Besides CSS just makes me look so pro, when making a website.
Bah, I thought you guys were excited about this, but from your lack of input, I'm left in the dark about your enthusiam. Seriously the spell check wasn't helping me when my brain went blank on how to spell that.
-Brent ( not happy mind you... *shakes fist*)
My Crazy week of stuff.
So lets see how can I depicted what happened this week?
I know, I'll draw up my week in paint.
Oh this might take a while though.
Coming back from XLR:8
My new passion for God
Challenging my evil twin to Mortal Kombat
Talking to my counsoller about the lunch dealy
Yes, yes, I challenged him to Mortal Kombat as well
Getting my PSP
I thought it was a giant fighting robot, I feel deceived
Finally me getting a haircut.
And that was basically my week...
Any questions?
No, great, so we've decided that next week you will all write a blog about me.
-Brent
And just for those who liked that song Karyn played as the dedication song...
Back to homework I go.
Thursday, October 06, 2005
Template change
LOOK AT MY NEW TEMPLATE I MADE... well some what.
Anyway, God gave me something to tell people about but I'm saving it for sunday's bible study.
-Brent
Anyway, God gave me something to tell people about but I'm saving it for sunday's bible study.
-Brent
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
HTML lesson about Blogger.com
Yes you have to download the tutorial, but its in notepad so it isn't big, and no I could not post it due to the large amount of HTML tags in it so the server reads them instead of just posting the code like a good boy should.
Download it here
Download it here
Monday, October 03, 2005
Purpose
Listen to this
Listen closely to the lyrics, and you'll see why its an awesome.
PS. I updated my profile.
Update*4:04 PM 10/5/2005
Alternative Link
So many complaints the link wasn't working, its not the server its your OS that can't handle a redirect tag. So here, this should work.
Listen closely to the lyrics, and you'll see why its an awesome.
PS. I updated my profile.
Update*4:04 PM 10/5/2005
Alternative Link
So many complaints the link wasn't working, its not the server its your OS that can't handle a redirect tag. So here, this should work.
Sunday, October 02, 2005
WOW~!
MAN wow, just wow, XLR:8 just changed my life so much. Man I can't believe how unfaithful and blind I have been, I finally talked to god just a few minutes ago, and man I mean literally, faithfully, honestly did it, I don't mean I prayed to god for someone else, I mean I just layed everything out to god and I feel so JOYFUL!
MAN I'm just so happy typing is taking away the fun but I have to type faster in order to get back to just jumping up and down for god.
I mean GoD showed me today so clearly what I have to put in progress at my school.
God wants me to start a lunch youth gathering to bring god praise, and to just be yourself, I find it SO HARD to worship and just like honestly be FOR GOD at school. I'm going to go talk with my counsoller about this, and Karyn we need to talk badly about this. I want this to be awesome, I want this thing to get Christians at are school, to stop hiding it, like you may say your a christian but I've just noticed that it is like almost never followed through via actions of honestly praise to God. I don't see the body of christ getting together at school and worshipping and talking about god, and talking even making an impact on the school. But this is going to change, God is giving me a plan, and I am going to do it no matter what. Tomorrow I'm also going around to every Christian I know at my school and telling them about this, and I just want to get this started.
Like God just gave me this vision of a bunch of us just worshipping God through music, and people outside of the room, are like "Hey that sounds cool, hey Mike wanna go check out that Christian Club thing?", "Eh, I guess so, if it has music as cool as that it can't be as boring as I thought I'd be"
I just want to get this done for God. I thought I'd just get your thoughts about this, and get my joy out and tell you all without calling Karyn and like panting while trying to tell her all this and how HAPPY i am!
MAN
BRING GOD GLORY GUYS
-BRent
YES LORD I AM YOUR SERVANT, NOW AND ALWAYS
MAN I'm just so happy typing is taking away the fun but I have to type faster in order to get back to just jumping up and down for god.
I mean GoD showed me today so clearly what I have to put in progress at my school.
God wants me to start a lunch youth gathering to bring god praise, and to just be yourself, I find it SO HARD to worship and just like honestly be FOR GOD at school. I'm going to go talk with my counsoller about this, and Karyn we need to talk badly about this. I want this to be awesome, I want this thing to get Christians at are school, to stop hiding it, like you may say your a christian but I've just noticed that it is like almost never followed through via actions of honestly praise to God. I don't see the body of christ getting together at school and worshipping and talking about god, and talking even making an impact on the school. But this is going to change, God is giving me a plan, and I am going to do it no matter what. Tomorrow I'm also going around to every Christian I know at my school and telling them about this, and I just want to get this started.
Like God just gave me this vision of a bunch of us just worshipping God through music, and people outside of the room, are like "Hey that sounds cool, hey Mike wanna go check out that Christian Club thing?", "Eh, I guess so, if it has music as cool as that it can't be as boring as I thought I'd be"
I just want to get this done for God. I thought I'd just get your thoughts about this, and get my joy out and tell you all without calling Karyn and like panting while trying to tell her all this and how HAPPY i am!
MAN
BRING GOD GLORY GUYS
-BRent
YES LORD I AM YOUR SERVANT, NOW AND ALWAYS
Creator, master, friend, mentor, savior.
So on saturday we were finishing the day with Mark and Mike using their abilties to bring praise to God. God talked to me, I saw God right next to me in fact, it was cool, then God pointed towards the window, and I was outside the building I was in and standing in the field, I couldn't move, and I was missing my shoes, but I wasn't cold. I just relized I was probably standing in duck poop, but it didn't matter, because next to me was God, and he told me to look up, after some asking why, and God just being persistantly patient until I stopped being nieve and just went with God, I looked up, I didn't see much but a cloudy black night sky, then God moved his arm and the clouds rolled away to reveal millions of stars, then God said to me, "Brent, what do you see?" I wasn't quite sure of what I was looking at, and then I said, "I don't know a bunch of stars", then God simply laughed and pointed out the time and effort it went into making those stars, and then he told me how insignifigant the time and planning it was that God took into making a star, compared to his plan for me, just his plan for me, nothing else, not how long it took him to plan out what I would look like, not what I would eat, but what his purpose was for me. Then he told me a few things, he told me about the whole creator thing I meationed earlier, and then he showed me front to back my whole life, and everything I had done, whether it be good or bad, some things made him proud, others cry, and others shake his head, then he opened his hand, and put the bad and good things in each hand, then he said,
"Brent these are the good things you have done for me, here take them." He gave them to me, and I took them. Then he said. "Here are the bad things" Then he crumbled them into a paper ball, and tossed it behind him, and they vanished, "Brent, what bad things?". He told me he was proud of what I have done for him, and I really needed to hear it. I have gone my whole life loving and fearing God, but not once did I feel that I ever did anything to please him, in fact I felt like a failure.
The third thing he showed me was a book, he opened it up and read it to me, front to back, it was a long book, it felt like a whole life time passed while listening to it. It was about a boy and his purpose for God, and what would happen in his life, and how he would live for God, and what he would do, at the beginning he was learning, but when he sat down and lived for God, the earth shook to the praise and pleasure he brought God. At the end of the book, I saw the gates of heaven open and God standing on the other side, and he said to "That story is what is to come for you, it is the story I have written for you, it is your story." Then I opened my eyes and was back inside, humbled and amazed at to what I had seen. Overwhelmed almost.
Some of the things I learnt were that mentors are so valuble to our growth as soliders of Christ, just like Jesus was to his disciples, mentors can bring us closer to God.
We ought to leave a legacy of people of christ on this earth when we leave for the performance. Don't be afraid to start things for God, be a fire sparker, not a fire fighter, and don't let anyone look down at you because you are young.
People look up to you, 99 people will read you, only one will read the bible, so we have to set an example, for most people, the only time they will see Christ is through us, so we better be doing something for God, instead of watching playing video games or watching the television.
I'm going to start being a mentor and telling everyone about Jesus and asking them how their relationship with him is,
We can mentor without opening our mouths, and that is through are actions, so are you being a good mentor?
I ask anyone who reads this if they can suggest a mentor for me, and I also ask that if anyone wants to walk beside me in my walk to change the world, because it will be almost impossible for me to be held accountable without someone helping me.
Even the word of the lord says to not do this alone,
Then Jesus went around teaching from village to village. Calling the Twelve to him, he sent them out two by two and gave them authority over evil spirits.
So ya, I don't know how to finish up here, other than, put down the remote controller ( I say controller because, your not really in control if you spend more time with the T.V. then you do with God) and ask him what he wants you to do, and what you can start doing. He showed me, I'm sure he'll show you, and trust me he will, my gift of prophecy is making me certain.
-Brent
"Brent these are the good things you have done for me, here take them." He gave them to me, and I took them. Then he said. "Here are the bad things" Then he crumbled them into a paper ball, and tossed it behind him, and they vanished, "Brent, what bad things?". He told me he was proud of what I have done for him, and I really needed to hear it. I have gone my whole life loving and fearing God, but not once did I feel that I ever did anything to please him, in fact I felt like a failure.
The third thing he showed me was a book, he opened it up and read it to me, front to back, it was a long book, it felt like a whole life time passed while listening to it. It was about a boy and his purpose for God, and what would happen in his life, and how he would live for God, and what he would do, at the beginning he was learning, but when he sat down and lived for God, the earth shook to the praise and pleasure he brought God. At the end of the book, I saw the gates of heaven open and God standing on the other side, and he said to "That story is what is to come for you, it is the story I have written for you, it is your story." Then I opened my eyes and was back inside, humbled and amazed at to what I had seen. Overwhelmed almost.
Some of the things I learnt were that mentors are so valuble to our growth as soliders of Christ, just like Jesus was to his disciples, mentors can bring us closer to God.
We ought to leave a legacy of people of christ on this earth when we leave for the performance. Don't be afraid to start things for God, be a fire sparker, not a fire fighter, and don't let anyone look down at you because you are young.
People look up to you, 99 people will read you, only one will read the bible, so we have to set an example, for most people, the only time they will see Christ is through us, so we better be doing something for God, instead of watching playing video games or watching the television.
I'm going to start being a mentor and telling everyone about Jesus and asking them how their relationship with him is,
We can mentor without opening our mouths, and that is through are actions, so are you being a good mentor?
I ask anyone who reads this if they can suggest a mentor for me, and I also ask that if anyone wants to walk beside me in my walk to change the world, because it will be almost impossible for me to be held accountable without someone helping me.
Even the word of the lord says to not do this alone,
Then Jesus went around teaching from village to village. Calling the Twelve to him, he sent them out two by two and gave them authority over evil spirits.
So ya, I don't know how to finish up here, other than, put down the remote controller ( I say controller because, your not really in control if you spend more time with the T.V. then you do with God) and ask him what he wants you to do, and what you can start doing. He showed me, I'm sure he'll show you, and trust me he will, my gift of prophecy is making me certain.
-Brent
God wants you to XLR:8 your life.
So XLR:8 was awesome, I went to Excellerate over the weekend and it was my sorta, weekend of relaxation.
Yes, I've been very busy lately with school and school work, and I was too occupied with doing well and leading bible study and going to refuge and preparing for sunday services and practicing the plays to focus on God. This weekend not only gave me time to relax but it gave me time I needed with God.
God talked to me so much over this weekend. I loved the camp it was really beautiful like God was saying to me "Brent, I will make nature sparkle just to show how much I love you". I learnt so much over the few days that I want to pursue God with so much passion that I feel like writing this blog is time away from that.
On friday, we had our 40 days of purpose sermon, literally, I mean learning more and more about gifts was really reinforced on friday, and tells me that God wanted me to truely find out my gifts and to start using them to my full ability. I got to meet so many new friends that passionatly loved God as much as I do, and it inspired me to learn more and more and get as much out of this weekend as I could.
God told me on friday about the time in my life that I had wasted on watching pointless television shows and playing very fruitless video games, so much so with the fact so clear as day, I could almost touch it.
Life on earth is just the warm up before the performance, like it touches on in the Purpose Driven Life, life on earth is only temporary, but life in heaven is eternal, in fact life on earth is just a centimeter on the meter stick of exsistance, smaller in fact. So if we take nothing with us to heaven but what we have done for Christ on earth, than what is the point on doing anything but doing stuff for Christ Jesus.
God wants us to use the gifts we are given here on earth to bring HIM pleasure, and to plant seeds in the world. Did you know the bible talks about an olive tree as the Jewish nation, and if it wasn't for their disbelief in the messiah, the branches of the tree would have never wilted and fallen from the tree, but the tree's loss is our gain, because of this God was able to graft the branches in us, so that we could produce olives for god, and even become olive trees for Christ.
If we use what we are given on earth, even no matter how small, or insignifigant it seems, we will be trusted with more in heaven, and this correlates to our gifts and abilities God has given us. More so our gifts in that manner, we can use our abilities, but unless we use them for God's pleasure than how we be able to use our gifts for God properly?
God delights in you, God is the maker of all, and he is the creator of everything, but no other creature in exsistance can make such a boast as God to always love his creations. Whether it be a faithful ant fulfilling it's purpose of carrying that leaf ten times its size back to the ant hill, or a fallen angel, God loves everything he has created, but he can't love everything man himself has produced. Remember how I talked about the difference of consequences and punishment? The same goes for a creation and a product. A creation is something God has made, a product is something that a creation has produced. Sin for example is not a creation but a product. But even though the one thing God intended this world for screwed up the simple task of obeying him, he provided a way out. Your creator loved you so much, and hated what your produced and what held you back from knowing him, that he sent his own son, to make the ultimate product possible. Redemption.
Can you hear God? Or have you build walls like school, or even friends that block him from allowing you to produce wonderful things for him? Have you used what God has given you to your full potential? I know I haven't been. But I sure as heck am going to do my darndest to now. What about you?
-Brent
PS. This is not all I learnt, but in order to rest your eyes I'm splitting this up into multiple blogs.
Yes, I've been very busy lately with school and school work, and I was too occupied with doing well and leading bible study and going to refuge and preparing for sunday services and practicing the plays to focus on God. This weekend not only gave me time to relax but it gave me time I needed with God.
God talked to me so much over this weekend. I loved the camp it was really beautiful like God was saying to me "Brent, I will make nature sparkle just to show how much I love you". I learnt so much over the few days that I want to pursue God with so much passion that I feel like writing this blog is time away from that.
On friday, we had our 40 days of purpose sermon, literally, I mean learning more and more about gifts was really reinforced on friday, and tells me that God wanted me to truely find out my gifts and to start using them to my full ability. I got to meet so many new friends that passionatly loved God as much as I do, and it inspired me to learn more and more and get as much out of this weekend as I could.
God told me on friday about the time in my life that I had wasted on watching pointless television shows and playing very fruitless video games, so much so with the fact so clear as day, I could almost touch it.
Life on earth is just the warm up before the performance, like it touches on in the Purpose Driven Life, life on earth is only temporary, but life in heaven is eternal, in fact life on earth is just a centimeter on the meter stick of exsistance, smaller in fact. So if we take nothing with us to heaven but what we have done for Christ on earth, than what is the point on doing anything but doing stuff for Christ Jesus.
God wants us to use the gifts we are given here on earth to bring HIM pleasure, and to plant seeds in the world. Did you know the bible talks about an olive tree as the Jewish nation, and if it wasn't for their disbelief in the messiah, the branches of the tree would have never wilted and fallen from the tree, but the tree's loss is our gain, because of this God was able to graft the branches in us, so that we could produce olives for god, and even become olive trees for Christ.
If we use what we are given on earth, even no matter how small, or insignifigant it seems, we will be trusted with more in heaven, and this correlates to our gifts and abilities God has given us. More so our gifts in that manner, we can use our abilities, but unless we use them for God's pleasure than how we be able to use our gifts for God properly?
God delights in you, God is the maker of all, and he is the creator of everything, but no other creature in exsistance can make such a boast as God to always love his creations. Whether it be a faithful ant fulfilling it's purpose of carrying that leaf ten times its size back to the ant hill, or a fallen angel, God loves everything he has created, but he can't love everything man himself has produced. Remember how I talked about the difference of consequences and punishment? The same goes for a creation and a product. A creation is something God has made, a product is something that a creation has produced. Sin for example is not a creation but a product. But even though the one thing God intended this world for screwed up the simple task of obeying him, he provided a way out. Your creator loved you so much, and hated what your produced and what held you back from knowing him, that he sent his own son, to make the ultimate product possible. Redemption.
Can you hear God? Or have you build walls like school, or even friends that block him from allowing you to produce wonderful things for him? Have you used what God has given you to your full potential? I know I haven't been. But I sure as heck am going to do my darndest to now. What about you?
-Brent
PS. This is not all I learnt, but in order to rest your eyes I'm splitting this up into multiple blogs.
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