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Name: Andrew
Country: United States
State: Texas
Birthday: 2/21/1987
Gender: Male
Interests: everything
Expertise: nothing
Occupation: Unemployed/Between Jobs
Industry: Nonprofit
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AIM:  drivenup85
Member Since:
6/19/2005
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| So I was reading Luke 9:23 "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me." And it hit me...what did Christ do with his cross after he finished caring it? He died on it. Yet many Christians, myself included, simply carry it to him and lay it down at his feet at the end of the day. If we are to die to the flesh daily, why not on our cross? We don't carry a cross for Christ's good...it's not to say "look what I can do for Christ." I'm not saying it's an some equivalent to Christ's death either, (for what man could even hope to take away the sins of the world?) far from it. But robbers, murderers and other sinners went through the same death Christ died and yet we are unable to do the same. Why can't we just give everything up for Christ? Is it our fear of how the world might react to us? Why not worry more about how the world will respond if we don't act? | | |
| If your life were a flower, what conditions would you want for it? Sunny days without rain? No, then why do we expect our lives as Christians to be any different? Just because you are going through a rainy season doesn't mean God has forgotten about you...it just means it's time for you to grow. The Lord will not let you be crushed by the world...you are His precious sons and daughters, but why do we forget that? Why is it when troubles come life is focused on me, but when the good times come we rejoice in what God has done (parting the storms in our lives). We should see God in the good and bad times...they are all work toward His glory. Jesus, the only perfect man ever, had a crap time on Earth...no one made His life perfect, no one stopped persecuting Him because He was the Son of God...but we still expect that we ride on calm waters, if not stagnant waters. Calm seas never made an expert sailor. In our rough times God is perfecting us...refining the rough parts in our lives. We endure now, that we may live there. God is never absent-minded, never gone...He sees your troubles. Have a good week...God bless. | | |
| The Lord is always present...even in your darkest of hours, He stands there...longing...waiting for you to take away your pride-filled spirit that says "I can do it without anyone" and take up the spirit that says "Only You can do it." We may give up, but He does not. We go to sleep and try to forget what we have done, but Jesus is eternally interceding with His Father on the part of us. "Cause I'll never get by standing on my own ability. How refreshing to know You don't need me..how amazing to find that You want me." A tree cannot produce fruit on its own...it requires water, soil, the sun and time. When we stand on our sandcastles, what do we really expect to happen? That the wind and the storms will stay away forever...that waves won't come and take us away? There is only one castle that has true peace and that will last foever...and I know it's one I could never attempt to build. Grace and peace to you from our Lord, Jesus Christ. | | |
| Yes, miracles of miracles it has been yet another glorious year that I have graced the earth with my presence. I am another year older and half a year wiser. I'm not going to say that people have to comment me and say "Hey happy B-day, coolest-guy-ever" or "Wow, I didn't know you were so old" or many other hilarious, yet generic, birthday comments...but I will say this racecar backwards is racecar...I think ya'll get the point. So I leave you with an interesting fact: the Chinese ideogram for "trouble" depicts two women living under one roof. | | |
| It's Christmas...the long awaited day has finally come at last. Well, I'm gonna get some sleep before Santa gets here and I ruin everyone's Christmas. | | |
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