The man post

This post is about the great saying that I made up called "If you're a man you're a man."
If you're a man, then you will stand up for what you believe in life.  If you're a man, then you won't get knocked down by others who will try to push you around.  If you're a man, you can take anything thrown at you.  If you're a man, you will stick up for your best friend in any situation.
If you're a Christ follower man, you will stick up for anyone being pushed around.  If you're a Christ follower man, you will serve and love your wife.  If you're a Christ follower man, you will serve those under and around you in life in whatever ministry you're in.
If you're a man, you're a man then you are legendary in life.  If you're a man you're a man, then everyone knows your name.  If you're a man you're a man, then you have a certain ease about you and people can see you coming from miles away.  If you're a man, you're a man then even pets can feel your presence.  If you're a man, you're a man, then your presence emanates from the entire room.
If you're a Christ follower man, then people will see Christ's presence from how you act.  If you're a Christ follower man, then the words you say glorify Christ.  If you're a Christ follower man, then the life you live emanates how Christ lived.  If you're a Christ follower man, then the words that you speak and say glorify Christ and doesn't demean,affect, or injure others.  If you're a Christian or Christ follower man, then people can see Jesus through you from miles away.
That was my diatribe on the If you're a man, you a man.  It is also my take on how to live life depending on who you are in life.

God's love song

Here's an old song I wrote about God's love.  I haven't practiced it to perform it yet though, it is just something I jotted down.  It will be great song to sing one day.

“Your Love”

Chorus: Your love,

Breaks me,

Shakes me,

It fills me up to the brim of the cup,

Verse 1:

I can’t fathom what you’ve done,

Because you gave you’re only Son,

To give us life and life to the full,

This love you have for me I can’t understand,

It doesn’t bend,

Chorus: Your love,

Breaks me,

Shakes me,

It fills me up to the brim of the cup,

Verse 2:

And I know without this love I would be nothing,

Because all I have is you,

You are my everything,

You wipe away all frustration, guilt, doubt, and fear

And bring them into the clear

You give me joy and a trusting heart

Sometimes I’m not so smart

Lord you’re bigger, longer, and wider than I can see

You make me so free

Snoop's life: God's love for us that never ends

Snoop's life: God's love for us that never ends: "I'm going to describe God's infinite love for us today. God called out the people of Israel. He still loved them and pursued them even tho..."

God's love for us that never ends

I'm going to describe God's infinite love for us today.
God called out the people of Israel.  He still loved them and pursued them even though they had fallen away from him.  His love never ends, it goes on forever.

In Hosea 11:3-4, God says this about his love for the people, "It was I who taught Ephraim how to walk, taking them by the arms; but they did not realize it was I who healed them.  I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love."

He never gave up on the people of Israel even when they sinned against him and disobeyed him.  He still loved them.  He still had compassion on the people though they had fallen far from him.  He never let them fall too far, in the same way he will never let us as Christ followers go.  He is bigger than our own problems of this world.

God says this describing his fierce passion and compassion for his people, in Hosea 11:8-9, "How can I give up you up, Epraim?

How can I hand you over, Israel?
How can I treat you like Admah?
How can I make you like Zoboiim?
My heart is changed within me;
all my compassion is aroused.
I will not carry out my fierce anger, nor will I turn and devastate Epraim.
For I am God, and not man-
the Holy One among you.
I will not come in wrath."
In the same way, Hosea loved Gomer though she had been with other men.  This gives us a picture of how much God loved the people of Israel though they had fallen far from him.  He loves us that same infinite and boundless way as Christ followers in the 21st century.  He pursues us through our failure and trials in our life and the times he we fall away from him.  We are the bride and God is the bridegroom who calls us out in the midst of life.
He also sent his son Jesus Christ to show his ultimate love for us on the cross.  He died so we could have life and life in him.

John 3:16, says this "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son that who believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

 God's love is infinite and eternal.  It never ends and lasts forever.  It also gives the most abundant life that you could find. 

 In John 10:10 it says, The thief comes to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so they may have life and life to the full."

If we depend on him, his unending love will take us away from anything in life.  He will never let us go.  His love and passion for us is eternal.
Remember these truths as you read this blog today or next week.  

 

 

Spiritual Contentment

I am writing to you today about Spiritual Contentment.  I have become content in good or bad circumstances throughout the years with the ability to rejoice in these times.
God has helped be become content in any and every circumstances over the past six years.  Through different circumstances my senior year of high school to after I graduated from college he has helped me become more content with things in life.
Paul talked about this way of spiritual contentment in Philippians 4:11-12.

 It says this, "I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances.  I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty.  I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty of living in want."

He has helped me realize the he will bring me through any situation I'm in.  He has given me the assurance that he is in control and I have to trust in his provision.  I have had to rejoice in whatever situation I'm in, knowing that he used it for his purpose.  His ways are not our ways.  He has different methods of accomplishing his purpose in our life.
I have been able to be more content in him lately since graduating from college.  He has helped realize I just need to rest in him.  I have come to realize through this time that my problems are small compared to the bigness of God.  There's nothing in my life that he can't handle.
I have had the frustrations of trying to find a job over the past year.  It has also been hard trying to figure out what to do with my life.  It has been a crazy year of good and bad times all mixed together.  It has helped me at times to be content in my situation that God had put me in and know that he put me in that situation for a purpose that he had in mind.
We have to remind ourselves that we can give to him any struggle or situation we are facing in our life.  We have to rejoice in his mercy.  In this, we will know that in him he will give us life and life to the full.
The ability to be content in different circumstances is a constant process.  A process of continual rest and rejoicing in Jesus Christ.  If we bring our situations and struggles to him, he will help us become content in anything and everything in life.

Burdens that weigh us down

Today I am going to be blogging about burdens that weigh us down inside.
Sometimes we have these burdens that seep inside our us and weigh us down.  They are in our minds and we can't let go of them.  It almost feels as if they grab a hold of us as they weigh us down.
They can come in big form or small form in our life.  They could also just pop up out of nowhere one day.  It could be a problem we have had that we can't shake or a recently recurring problem.  Whatever burden you have it frustrates you inside.  It makes you wonder why is this or that not working out right now?
I feel as if my driving problems of the past have become a burden in my life now.  I graduated college little more than a year ago and I've been trying to find someone to drive with or find a way to drive by myself again.  It affects everything in my personal life and sometimes career wherever that takes me.  I know God used my frustrations with my wrecks in the past for my growth somehow but there has to be a way I can overcome this right now.  I just have find a way to overcome this right now.
I feel as if I don't overcome this it will hinder the rest of my life.  I haven't driven by myself since my senior year in high school.  I am known by many though I haven't had a date with a girl other than BYX formals and high school prom.
My driving problems I think make me feel trapped sometimes and pulled down.  I want to have that power like everyone else to control the roadways and live life.  The ability to drive we can also control where we want to go in life.
The thing my driving problems have made me do is become more open and honest with people about my struggles.  It has helped me become truthful in all that I say and all that I do.  The frustrations has brought me to my knees to realize how we all have struggles inside of us.
I have thought recently that God used my wrecks in high school and driving problems today to conform me to his image.

Romans 8:28-29, says "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.  For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be firstborn among many brothers."

I have had to remind myself that God is in control of my frustrations.  He is bigger than my problems here and now on this earth.
I have to remind myself that I need to trust in God.  I have to try to rely on him until I can overcome my burdens that weigh me down daily.

Free blog Tuesday today

It's free blog Tuesday today I am posting a Christian song I wrote during this past year that describes the growth in Christ I have experienced lately in my life.  It describes how Jesus has changed me and helped me mature in my faith and trust in him.  It shows how I have been able to give up everything in my life to Jesus because of the past faith that God has shown me.  The ability to do that has been awesome. So, enjoy the song and the blog today whoever reads it.

O Lord where will you lead

Verse I

Searching for a job I try not to hit myself on a door knob

Then I grab a piece of corncob

It’s rather tasty

But rather flakey

I think to myself God is in control

He is bigger than a butter roll

He would do a jig when we graduate to be with him

He would embrace us with a whim

Chorus:  O Lord where will you lead,

            O Lord where will you lead,

            O Lord where will you lead

Verse II

I know I have to trust in you in all I have

Even in the good and the bad

Keep presenting myself to you in all that I do

Who hoo

Lord, you are maturing in me

As quick as can be

But I know growing in you is a process

I can’t get bogged down by the excess

Verse III

Of the stress of this life

Lord you have overcome

This momentary earthly life

That isn’t worth all our strife

I give up everything to you

Because you are all I know

Chorus: O Lord where will you lead,

            O Lord where will you lead,

            O Lord where will you lead