Song

So my wonderful Hubby has banned me from listening to the below song, only because I cry everytime I hear it lately. The words are just beautiful and I've been playing it on repeat. I don't know if it's helping or hurting either but I do know the tears flow whenever I listen to it. Something about that wonderful name moves me :-) I'll write more tomorrow because it's getting late and I have to tuck in, but Nathan had a good weekend so I'll tell you about it tomorrow! God Bless

The new Christian

I'm so sick of this new Christianity. I see why people who aren't Christians don't want to be. I'm sick of the anything goes faith that basically says we can do whatever we want and there's no consequences.

So sick of talking to people shacking up and giving honor to God for it and telling me how God "spoke" to them yesterday. God doesn't speak while you're living in sin. I'm sick of people doing whatever they want and telling me how God talks to them everyday. Unless God is convicting you of your sin, I doubt He's talking to you. There's many examples in the Bible when God was silent.

Michael Jackson just died and tons of Christians are saying Rest in Peace. Granted we don't know where he went but the last we knew he was a professed muslim. And if we believe our Christian faith to be correct then unless he accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior then he is not Resting in Peace. The Bible clearly said there is only one way.

The funny part of this is other religions know it. Why do you think so many people are against Christianity. It's the only faith that specifically said that unless you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior there is no other way. It seems everyone knows this but Christians themselves.

How do I know all of this. Because I had sin in my life and I still struggle with sin and you know what God forgives but there are still consequences to sin that don't necessarily go away. God does not honor my sin or anyone else's.

We cannot get into heaven living however we want. You can't get there by being a good person either but your life should show some evidence of Christ or your talk is just that. And I'm not saying we're not going to make mistakes along the way, I'm just saying we shouldn't excuse them.

It Doesn't Matter

Three deaths this week in Hollywood. Maybe more I don't know. But three very big ones. Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson.

You know what strikes me the most in death, especially death of rich and famous people? It doesn't matter. Hear me out. I'm not saying their death doesn't matter. Death matters no matter who the person is. But here we have people who travelled the world and made millions and were worshipped in a sense. No doubt many people are mourning right now. People who haven't even met any of these people yet feel they know them from watching them grow up.

But sadly their lives are over. Ages 86, 62, and 50. And now they enter into Eternity which is a lot longer than any of the numbers just typed and where did they end up? I honestly don't know and won't suspect, however, now that they're gone everything is left, the riches and the fame and they're left to face the creator who only cares about what they did for Him. Did any of them accept Christ and live out their lives for him? Now it's too late, but will they be like the rich man in the Bible looking up begging to go back and warn their families?

Sam and I were just talking about this the other day. Many people have died and for those who had it all on earth and chose not to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and die and realize that God is real and eternity is spent in one of two places - How would they live their life if they could come back? Would they realize that nothing else matters except what they do for Christ? It'd be interesting to be able to see the change in those people if they were able to come back and do it over. And I told my husband aren't we guilty of the same thing? We have a golden opportunity to let our lives reflect Christ! To be the Christians God has called us to be. Let us not let time run out! If you haven't accepted Christ, then do it. I remember talking to a Jehovah Witness at my house recently who told me that if I choose not to follow their way then after I die I just stay in the ground, I then told her that's not a bad thing actually it doesn't sound like a consequence I just sleep for eternity so to me there's no point in following their way but if I'm right and she's wrong then the consequences are severe (this left her speechless). If you have accepted Christ then start honoring him with more than your words. I know the saying is old but talk is cheap. If we say we're Christians yet live and look like the world then our talk is cheap. Our time is going to run out. Unless the rapture happens first, we have an appointment to keep. We don't know the day or time but it's going to run out and like Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and Ed McMahon we're going to leave everything behind. We have second chances while on this earth but we won't have a second chance then and God is only going to care about one thing.

Teach me how to Love

I just had one of the best Easter's ever.

I woke up at 4 am to my daughter "calling" me and wasn't able to fall back asleep after putting her down (stay with me it really was good).

After I laid back down I started to worry about frivolous stuff when at about 6 am I got a text from a friend saying "Happy Easter" and it just jolted me and my thoughts turned immediately and I began reflect heavily on the Resurrection. How years ago this time Christ was getting up and walking out of his grave. It really hit me hard for some reason yesterday and I was just in awe. I tried to imagine myself back there as a witness to this. Can you imagine? Being there to witness our Savior alive! What would it have been like to have seen his nail pierced hands! And I just couldn't fall back asleep. I then put on Redeemer by Crabb Family (my favorite song which I'll post above) and just really let myself think about the words and Christ.

Sam and I went back "home" for church services and it's an hour away and as we were driving I told him what I'd been up doing and we had a wonderful conversation. We talked about seeing Jesus one day, can you imagine! I asked him if he could imagine his reaction to seeing our Savior. We reflected on how as Christians we know this earth isn't our home we're just passing through. How we have so much to look forward to. It was a wonderful conversation. And one thing we really talked about is loving people. You know how Jesus said the two greatest commands are to Love the Lord your God with all of your heart and to Love your neighbor as yourself. He also told us as Christians to love one another. Something I truly struggle with at times and have written about it in the past.

And Sam is so wise, he's not much of a talker unless you know him (or if you're married to him of course;-) But when he does say stuff it's usually packed with wisdom and just ministers to me at the right time and I was asking him how come we as Chrstians struggle so much with the commandment to love each other. And he simply said because they struggle with the first one, to love God. It was such a simple statement but packed so much meaning. If you think about Christ and love Him truly with all of your heart do you realize it's actually hard to hate?