A Cup of Joe

FML

2012-01-24T12:29:00.000-08:00

FML...

One statement that I hate the absolute most!

F my life? Why?

Sure you might be having hard times, or you might have something come up that you don't necessarily like, but that is no reason for what is, in perspective, such a harsh statement!

A small bump in the road is no reason to condemn your whole life!

We make this statement so whimsically, but if you actually think about what you're saying, we might not say it so much...

When we as Christians make statements like this, we're spitting in God's face saying, "What You gave me isn't good enough!" Is everything He's blessed us with not enough? When one little bump, or maybe even a good sized bump, is in the road, we throw it all to the wind! "FML!"

No....

No matter how whimsical we use it, we can't, we can't, we cannot! Proclaim that over our lives!

Just think about what it is we're saying....

I Can't Do It On My Own

2012-01-15T13:52:00.000-08:00

When we are in tough places, 9 out of 10 times, its our fault. When we succeed, its because of God. When we fail, its all on us. God cant fail! He can't! Its not what He does. Everything God does succeeds and furthers His kingdom.
So often we think we can do things on our own, but that very thing is what puts us in hard places. We cant do it by ourselves. We aren't strong enough to do that.
Sin is defined as separation from God; without God. Trying to do it on our own, is a sin in itself. When we say, "I can do this all on my own," you are defying the fact that God is the only person strong enough to help us. We are separating ourselves from God because we think we're strong enough to do it on our own, when in reality we can't do anything good without Him!
We go out, and we do things that we think we can do by ourselves and then we fall and we wonder how we fell....and we wonder why God wasn't helping us the whole time. We claimed that we could do it by ourselves, but we couldn't.
When we fail, its all on us.

We're not strong enough.

Don't think you can do it on your own, because, im sorry, you can't.

You need someone who is much bigger than you to help you, no matter what it is.

Doors

2012-01-07T21:12:00.000-08:00

Everybody has a calling.

No matter how big or small.

No matter where you are.

No matter what is going on.

You have a calling!

Through our God given passions our callings are revealed to us.

In a conversation with one of my closest friends, she said that she felt heart broken. She had in the past year gone on a missions trip to Africa and she greatly missed it. She said that her heart was broken in a good and a bad way; good in the fact that she ally wanted to go back, but bad in realizing of how comforted she felt and how little the people she helped had and how she felt like she should be doing more.

That is the truly a calling! When your heart is breaking for what is breaking God's heart! Her compassion for them has shaped her God calling.

But what do you do when you don't feel like you're living up to that calling?

You're in the place you are for a reason. God has put you in the place you are with open and closed doors around you. There is always something you can do. The doors that are open now are open to take you to the next door that help to fulfill your calling. It may not seem like much is happening now, but keep your eyes open to what's around you and what God is calling you to do now.