The more things change

I got to spend some time with a girl that I went to high school with, that I haven't seen in almost 25 years today.. She looks the same and she's just as happy as I remember her.. I know that her life has had a lot of ups and downs just like mine, but she seems to handled better than I have mine.. Of course I haven't watched her walk the road of faith that she has so I don't know the times she's either fallen off the path or fallen down and had to pull herself together and get back up and keep on walking.. I can't see the spiritual patches she's had to sew on her armor to keep her shield of faith together.. I haven't seen the battles she's had to fight either against a living and breathing adversary, or the battles within her own self. It reminds me of the song " The Warrior Is A Child," by Twila Paris.

That's why I never understand the people who when someone has fallen or isn't living up to their expectations thinks its their right to correct or judge, or try and put them back on the path that they think is holy and honorable. Not realizing that the battle to get back up is part of the strengthening of the faith process that God is needing them to go through..

I also have a problem with someone thinking that they're more holy and because they think that their more holy can sit in the judgement seat and say if your saved or living right or whatever.. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT HAS GOTTEN THEM WHERE THEY'RE AT!!! You can say it's unconfessed sin or their running away from the will of God. BUT YOU DON'T KNOW!!

Meat and taters

To continue with my previous post, some people would rather go to a church where the pastor only knows how to give milk to his people, because the person thinks that they'll have an opportunity to preach and choose to walk away from God's will for his life in order to get man's approval. Not knowing that by choosing to walk away from where God has placed them, they are denying the people that God has given them the opportunity to find Jesus. Why why why???

God or as some people refer to Him as "My Gimme God"

First off let me say I'm not judging ANYONE, because I'm guilty of this. I just wasn't aware to what extent.. Until recently

Do you know anyone or are you ever guilty of: When God puts you where HE wants you, but it isn't exactly where YOU want to be and you keep asking Him to move you to where YOU believe you're suppose to be, or where YOU think you would be better used and He doesn't. You think "God doesn't really know what He's doing." So YOU move to where you really want to be or initiate circumstances around you to make it where you can or are forced to move to where YOU want to be. Because YOU think "God ought to know I would be better used here than where He has me."Then when it all falls apart you blame GOD, because He ought to have know you wouldn't have been happy and stopped you from moving yourself.. Never mind the FREE WILL He has so graciously given us, to screw up whenever necessary.

As I said at the beginning I'm guilty of this to some extent. Right now in my current circumstances with my job.. To stay put and wait, because I surely don't want to move before I'm suppose to.

Maturety

There are things in my life that are still in the infant stage. There are things in my life that I'm in the adolescent stage. There are few things that I'm in the adult stage about.. I just mean in the thought processes or attitudes or the way I react when I come against things. I've been shown that there is a lot of things that I've still got to grow in especially in the last few weeks. I don't understand a lot of what's going on in my life right now.. I just know that God is right here with me..

Can't Help But Wonder

Just wondering why when I can't understand things that I see right in front of my the most extreme circumstances come floating through my head as to what's actually going on ..