W.W.W.W.W.

WE WANT WHAT WE WANT can mean I, me, or myself.  Something that "we" want, "we" feel like "we" have to have it.  Everyone can be selfish, it's who we are or have made ourselves become.  Jesus' desire for His BODY is to be selfless but we sometimes are inadequate of that knowledge. "We" can always be swayed which makes us very weak or powerless of something that we "want". Jesus asked us to be a unity, ONE BODY, to live life through him.  We don't usually think about that in our daily lives.  We go about our day and whatever happens happens... forget about evening services, use foul language, actions that don't show Jesus to others.  We do those things because "We Want What We Want".

Two Sunday's ago our preacher did a sermon that made me think about all of this and I would like to share some of the notes we made during service:

1. Goal
His Note: Attitudes we should have about becoming a unity: Humility, Patience, Gentleness, Forebearing (Ephesians 4:2)
My Thoughts: I think that we should be all of the attitudes listed above, but I know that a lot of the time no one feels this way.  I can honestly say that I have very little patience and I personally need to work on it.  There's always room for improvement and time to ask God to help you.

2. We will we do as the body?

1. His Note: We will demonstrate oneness through His presence lived out in our midst. (John 14:16 & 20)

My Thoughts: We all need to live though his presence.  I have trouble doing that because I do what I want to do and I don't think about the say W.W.J.D. (What Would Jesus Do?) and I know that I need to work on that.

2. His Note: We will be a witness to the world. (John 17:21b, 23b)

My Thoughts: Being a witness to the world is one tough thing to do.  It is always easier said then done. Now I'm trying to think of something that I can do to be a witness for God! :)

3. His Note: We will reflect His glory! (John 17:22)

My Thoughts: Reflecting His glory?  I know I am no perfect Christian and I know I try everyday but don't you think it's a lot to ask from God to reflect something that's His?  I shouldn't even question what He asks us to do, but I don't even know where to begin to reflect His glory.  I guess I'll figure it out soon.

I hope that you can take this lesson I learned and take it to heart.  I may be confused but maybe you aren't about reflecting His glory.  Leave a comment to express your thoughts with me :).

Holding your tongue is a piece of work...

...and I sure as heck have figured that out the hard way.  No matter how old you are there will ALWAYS be some type of drama.  Can't avoid it, so might as well be in it and say nothing to keep it up.  I don't mean be in the talking behind someone's back "in it", I'm just saying that if you are apart of drama that deals with you then you have to be in the drama.  All you can do is take the high road and hold your tongue.  I feel some days that's like a job you should get paid for.  I mean seriously, sometimes I literally bite my tongue because I want to say something so bad but I know that if I do then it's all just going to go down the highway past 20 18-wheelers and almost killing yourself 15 out of those 20 trucks.  Probably a bad simile but oh well, made sense to me.  Anyways, my lesson that I've learned from the past few days is that holding your tongue and killing people with kindness make YOU feel better in the long run rather than just being a jerk to someone who does you wrong.



When you are tempted-
"Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trails of many kinds"
James 1:2

WhY am I up This Late!?!?

There are so many reasons why the phrase "you never know what you had till you lose it" can be put into perspective.

I'm going to talk about the obvious one, the boyfriend or girlfriend.

Sometimes what you have is better than you think. Happened to me. Now I lost it and never realized how much it hurts when you've fallen for someone is. I hate that I'm confused because I don't think that he really wanted too be done, yet he said we were. All I can say is that I'm sorry for what I've done but you can't really say too much because we weren't really together... I apologize for everything I did to you. I'm not going to take back the things I hate about why you and I aren't more than...

This is why I am up this late... for the fact that I can't fall asleep, my heart is torn...