Wednesday, 10 December 2008
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I got bored so I decided to do the survey. I hadn't done one in a while. Life is good on my end. Things are going better than they were the last couple weeks. Christmas is fastly approaching. I am not as excited about Christmas this year as I was last year. I am not sure why but I think I jsut haven't got into the Christmas spirit yet. It will come yet, it always does. I love Christmas and what it represents.
I just got done reading a book called Out of Islam by Christopher Alam. In this book it talks about his life and what he has endorred (sp?) in order to stand up for Christianity. He went through persecution because of his faith and he also saw many different miracles. After reading this book I had to think where would I be if I had to go through all he went through. Where would my faith be? Then I thought what would my life look like if I truly surrendered my life to God and followed him no questions asked. Where would I be if I was not born in America, where it is comfortable and I am not persecuted for my faith. This past couple weeks at church we have been talking about practical atheism. That is when you say believe in God but you life as you believe in God. This something that has plagued our American culture. I believe one reason that we have this problem is because we do not have to stand up for our faith and we are able to get away with practical atheism. And along with practical atheism comes with being a lukewarm Christian. We don't not wanna believe in God but we don't want to give our life over completely becaus we ar worried about we will have to change in our life. We are comfortable with where we are and we know that if we are on fire for God then he will turn our life inside out and he will ruin our life. Why are we so comfortable being medicore for Christ? He only sent his only son to die for us and save us from our sin, so that we can enjoy God's grace. And we take this so lightly, we don't completely understand it but as long as we are on this side of heaven. This is something that God has been challenging me on, I think have allowed my self to become a medicore/lukewarm Christian. And in realizing this is not ok with me and I can only pray that I do not allow myself to stay here.
On another note, this whole thing about bailing out the auto companies annoy me. This is about a bad business practice. I unserstand that we would lose many jobs if they would go under but this is teaching them that it is ok to bail out businesses when they make bad decisions. What about us Americans who no longer feel like paying our bills, who is going to bail us out? Our economy is where it is because of many factors but one major factor is that they loaned money to people who did not have the money in the beginning. That is why out housing market is where it is right now. If we continue to bail out every business that is in trouble will they learn anything from it and how are we going to pay for it all? Because or money supply is not endless. Anyway I needed to vent. In the end all this will work out because God is in control and he knows what he is doing.
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