cosmic powers – The Arrow Preacher

The Bubble

Why don’t you turn to God? What do we ask of God? Do we keep God in a tiny bubble until we need something? Do we feel God can’t handle the big stuff in our life and we can do it better? Do we feel we shouldn’t bother God with the little struggles we’re going through? The problem is we don’t have a good understanding of God, God’s love for us, and God’s grace. If we truly understand it’s not even a small question, we’re wrong. God wants us to come to him with every little thing but good and bad. We should praise God for every last blessing we have, and on the flip side, every tiny struggle, and every major mountain, we should be praying to God. We must have an intimate relationship with God, not just one in passing. If you were to just call your friends when you needed something, and never any other times, how well or long do you feel that relationship will last? The relationship with our Heavenly Father should be more then the occasional phone call asking for help.

We try to handle so many problems ourselves. We try to do things our way, and when we don’t turn to God or receive Godly counsel, more often then not, we simply make the situation worse. We’ve gotten to the point as a society that we forget about prayer, and we forget about that relationship with God. The sad truth is we only turn to God with horrible things happen and we need something. God is without limit therefore we shall not tempt the Lord by saying something is to big or too small. Do not be so proud that you would say, ‘God has more important things to worry about then my small problems.’ God is everywhere. God loved each and every one of us.

Do we carry God around with us holding onto Him and putting Him in our pockets? Do you keep God in a bubble because you think you’re protecting God from your sinful actions, or rather, protecting yourself from God? You keep God contained because you’re afraid of what other people will say. It’s like wearing something fashion questionable, and then having others laugh at you at the party. We don’t want to be mocked or ridiculed, so God stays tucked away in this little bubble, and only on Christmas and Easter do you go to church, take God out because everyone else did to, and get your annual worship on, and then when service is done, back in the bubble, and back to normal. There’s danger when you put God in a bubble though, what happens when something goes wrong in your life, will you turn to God and expect answers to your prayers? If you put God in your pocket every time you made a decision and never heard what God was saying to you, are you ready to hear that message when the excrement hits the oscillating blades?

I always thought of it like this, how can we depend on a car if we only go out and start it once a year. How dependable is that car going to be when you need it? Treating a car like that, even if it were a classic car would be considered neglect. That’s exactly what’s happening with our relationship with God. We have become a society of neglect towards God. As Sodom and Gomorrah before us, we shall one day reap the consequence of having such a perverted view of God. God is not to be tempted, and God is not to be trifled with. When children are bad, and they disobey their parents punishment is coming. We must remember God seeks a relationship with us. How would your spouse feel if you only let them out of their room when you needed something? You’d never have a successful relationship or marriage that way, so what makes you think it’s okay to do that to God? Just because you can’t physically see or touch God, doesn’t mean that’s going to end well for you. You may think you’re a big and bad all powerful person, but trust me, God is going to win this one, and you will have no one to blame and no excuse will be good enough. God will find you, God will see you, and God will judge you for your actions. God loves you more then you’ll ever imagine, but bad kids still need to be punished. You should re-evaluate your relationship with the Lord and see that we need God every day, every minute, and we need to allow God to walk next to us, not as equals, but we are servants of God, not the other way around. We are here for God to do God’s work, not how some view God. A small bubble cannot contain God, and when we think God’s contained, you’re lying to yourself. Smash that little bubble and let God stand with you big and tall. Do not be shamed of God, instead be ashamed of humanity. Love humanity and always be God’s hand and feet doing God’s work. Put Jesus at the center of your life, today, and always. You’ll be amazed how you’ll feel when you just change your focus on who Jesus is for us, so we may be servants for Him.

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Life’s Not a Race Its a Marathon

Waiting in line at the grocery store seems to take forever doesn’t it? What about when you’re waiting for your burger at a fast food restaurant? We all think ‘can’t they move any faster?’ Cell download speeds or waiting for the GPS to load. Internet service going from one website to the next. We’re a nation of impatient. How quickly we forget the days of dial up, or having to go to the store for what you want. Now we order things online and even a week seems like it takes too long. We want things next day. No one remembers what it was like to write letters and waiting two weeks for a reply. Today we can type a message in 6 seconds, and have a reply in 12 or less.

Having to go through physical therapy a few times for a few reasons I have often wished for instant results with minimum amounts of work and effort. We treat God much like everything else we want in life. A cosmic genie with phenomenal cosmic powers, itty bitty loving space as we try to put God in our tiny little box. The difference in our minds between God and that genie is our God gives us more then 3 wishes, right??

We want God to fix our problems quicker, we want God to get us that shiny bauble, the love of our life, all kinds of things and we want it in our time, right now, not later… please. The thing is it doesn’t work like that. 1 Corinthians 9:24 “Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.” What the author is saying is many run but only one gets the prize. We have to work for what we want. There’s reward in hard works. We can’t just have everything given to us.

2 Timothy 4:7-9 “7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: 8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. 9 Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me:” Paul knowing he was at the end of his life before his execution, writes to Timothy and explains he is confident in his path. As his journey is nearing its completion, he knows that it takes patience, perseverance, and faith to run the marathon of life.

We need to learn patience, and if we claim to have patience, our patience needs more patience. I know I often have a hard time letting go of what I want fixed right away. I have a hard time understanding the months of my solitude, my trials, and my path. Knowing it takes patience and living your life to match what we know we should have is not easy. Perhaps time is one of the greatest enemies we face. Perhaps the race we face is time itself.