Declaration from this Heart

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You are my saving grace;

 

 

 

If I lose everything;

 

I have Everything!

 

 

For You are my saving grace

 

 



Does this make sense?

I guess when you have money, its easier to say 'money wont buy you happiness' probably for 2 reasons:

a) you have the money now
b) it hasn't made you any happier

It would be harder to say this though I think if you were poor. But as I write this, I have not lived in those shoes before. For 2 reasons though

a) you have no money now
b) you think it will make you happier


And all the smart and wise individuals poor and rich alike can I think say :

a) no amount of money will make you happier
b) because the rich people say so and the poor people are usually happier anyways

Does this make sense?

I am trying to dissect this further from a Christian perspective:

A) You grow up in America, and throughout your entire life Success and Money are 'preached' by the world as your purpose and 'pursuit of happiness'

B) You become a Christian and find true happiness

C) Yet you still have everyone and their dog , commercials, media, celebrities, businessmen, etc 'preaching' to you how in order to be Successful you need to have a lot of Money and A Great Wonderful Promising Fulfilling Career

D) So as a Christian you realize the words of Jesus "it is more difficult for the rich man to enter into the kingdom of Heaven"

E) And your like what do I do with all this?

F) And then you freely give monthly out of the goodness of your heart, "For the Lord loves a cheerful giver"

G) Only to start looking at your 401K retirement account because it came up at work or you saw the latest ad on TV and it got you 'thinking'

H) Then you start that whole fun enterprise and then you remember a couple days later that you should be "setting your minds on things above"

I) Does this make sense?

J) So say you have a kid: Now what ? College. 529 Plan

K) Oh that's right your newly married and have a kid and your wife is a stay home mom and now you don't even have enough money to put away for College

L) But then you remember "God will never leave you nor forsake" and you learn that somehow, someway God is going to take care of this expense for you and maybe start to save in 5-10 years when your supposedly by American standards making more money and climbing up the 'ladder'

M) Do you see what I am trying to get at here?

N) Does this make sense?

O) I think truly as I write this "vent of a blog" it is growing more and more clear as I write

P) "You cannot serve two masters"

Q) 2 opposing views are addressed here on Earth for Christians to quite clearly see once they really start to fight against materialism and the American Dream

R) And the main question really is this: How am I going to live my life?

S) For America's economy.

T) Or for God's Economy

U) They are quite different indeed

V) So it always will come back to this: "You cannot serve 2 masters"

W) Cannot

X) Serve

Y) 2 Masters

Z) Does this make sense?

"What good are all our blessings, if we can't enjoy them?"

"What good are all our blessings if we can't enjoy them?" - Mike Mason

This is partly the cry of Solomon in Ecclesiastes. It is solely related to our Joy , or lack thereof, in Christ.

"The thief comes only to steal kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly." - Jesus (John 10:10)

The devil does want to steal kill and destroy our lives. This is directly aimed at our joy in Christ. If we give the enemy rights to take what is rightly ours, we will indeed be, I dare say almost miserable Christians.

 Ineffective may be the correct term, but a weight of concern is addressed here: Stealing, Killing, & Destroying. A Thief through and through.

With the weight of evil on one side, the weight of good and glory on the other: "I came that they may have life and have it abundantly."

And herein lies the crux of the matter: A Daily Battle between good and evil, a Daily Battle between accepting lies and/or truth, A Daily Battle between ones' lack of joy and ones' abundance of joy.

We forget we are in a battle. This probably should be addressed more. We are in a spiritual battle. This must be the foundation in our attempt; rather FIGHT , for our lives' joy in Christ.

When we understand the devil is constantly finding ways to steal, kill, and destroy our Joy. We can in turn be constantly looking to Christ for his Life and His Life Abundantly.

I am not claiming I have won, nor have understood fully what our lives should look like in the context of Jesus' words: "have life and have it abundantly"

But I know there was Joy and Joy abundantly when I first accepted Christ into my heart. There was much Joy when I was baptized, there was much Joy when I saw others come to Christ. It was apart of the beginning with Christ, and it should be a recurring theme in our lives.

So we must not go forward, but rather backward. Back to heart of when we first understood what it meant when "our sins are forgiven". What it meant when "Jesus loves you". What it meant when "He died for you". Because there we will find the root of our joy in Christ. We must not let this grow old, slowly letting the devil steal , kill, and destroy the true meaning of our everyday walk with Christ.

We are free men. No free man walks around in Chains.

Bouncy Bouncy

IF I could not getting any more weird, I bought I a palates ball for work, the chair was just way too plain. I mean if I can bounce up and down for a good 6 hours maybe I can work out some of this anxiety and stress that associates itself quite rapidly with the insurance business. Its a crazy business, like who would ever do this is just nuts. So I guess that's why I am doing it.

You start talking in kid language when your a Daddy. Right now I just blew up my ball and it took longer than I had liked, seriously want a good workout just inflate this thing and then deflate later and do it all over again and your forearms will be burning.

That's free. I'm a cheapo. I have been going to McDonalds and JUST getting the free small coffee they are giving away (march 31st to april 13th). Something like that. If I show up and its over I probably wont even buy the $1.08 coffee. That's cheap.

Seriously who does this kinda stuff. I am really into plants right now. We planted a 65 gallon Monterrey Oak in the front yard. Bought a Treegator on Amazon to help water it. Now I need some root stimulator supposedly (had a nice long conversation with one of our insureds who planted like 250 of these tress on UT campus).

But now that the tree is in and doing good. We took Millie to nursery and explored some. Brought home a Mexican Feather Grass plant and Barbeque Rosemary (which I ate some yesterday one the front porch. Its smokier than regular Rosemary).

Anyways I like plants now. Trying to figure out something I can plant on our fence and grow a cool vine. Crossing Vine is beautiful, Ashley is worried our fence will get hurt. I mean seriously fences are worth almost nothing after install. Not sure why we spent so much on ours. Ah well its cool, that's why.

Oh ya back to the Daddy language. Bouncy bouncy. I mean that was my initial thought when I started to bounce on this thing. Seriously turning back into a kid. Which I am totally okay with. Just hope other people don't get freaked out by it.

Its nice to write again. I hope Millie doesn't inherit my mind. I mean its written that we have the mind of Christ. But man mine just wont slow down.

Probably should be on some type of medicine. Unfortunately I vowed I would never take any of that stuff.

Anyways gotta get back to work. Or what I like to call "work".

Bouncy Bouncy. Cant wait to be home...