This weekend My real Dad and sister, whom I just met last Jan, Came to celebrate christmas early with us. The weekend was great, we made lots of great new memories, it was just a great time of resting in each others presents with no expectations. God did a lot of really neat things, and put a lot of really cool things on my heart.

God must love me so much to be so incredibly patient with me.

You know how you will go your whole life thinking , believing, and doing things and never really knowing why that is. Like who said that is the way you are suppose to think or do or be , it is like this hidden unwritten code that we all find ourselves fallowing. Well God just kinda shined the light on a tinny part of that in my life.

Why is it that we as Christians spend so much time on TRYING to get people saved or leading them to Christ? I mean have you ever really thought about that. I think of so many people in my life that are not believers and have always hoped that I could win them or lead them to Christ through some wise words from the all knowing Chanda Brown. Most think of the goal as being saved as accepting Christ as in no hell. Why do we think that, I mean where did that come from. We are not suppose to do anything but live OUR life full of love , peace , patients, forgiveness, kindness, O yeah did I say LOVE. We are suppose to be growing and changing, we are suppose to be humble, we are to be servants, friends, encourager’s, givers. We are suppose to continually working on our own heart and more importantly being willing to let God work in and through every inch of us. Why is it that we focus so much on others, on SAVING others, I mean really where in the bible does it instruct us to be that Savior. Our Job is not to save any one but to just live, and to live for God, to pursue Him, to listen to Him to Just simply be….with Him.

I was talking to Josh about these thoughts I was being given and he pointed out something really cool. We (most Christians)are spending all our time trying to do God’s JOB, we are trying to be the Savior, and in the end looking secretly to get the praise that is to be God’s. The really funny part is that this Job,that we try doing that is not ours, is completely impossible for us to do and yet the Job that was given to us goes left undone. So we have unforgiving,hopeless, mean, discouraging, stingy people walking around trying to do God’s job. We really are a silly bunch aren’t we?!! :) When I think about it that way it really makes me laugh. That is why I think that God must really love me, that he loves me through my silly little ideas and intentions how ever farm from Him that they are.

So before my Dad and Sister came to visit this weekend I heard God saying to my heart to just love on them, love on them for who they are behind appearnance, behind weaknesses, behind religion. God loves them just as He does me whether they love Him and know Him or not. So this weekend I just loved on them and they loved on me and my family, there was NO pressure to win anything, it is so much easier to just do what we are called to do. By the way the funny thing is that I felt more love from them this weekend then i do from most christians I have been around my entire life. There is so so much more but I will save that for another entry.

Just a thought

~C