Are you REALLY available to God?

God doesn't need men and women with an articulate vocabulary and poignant writing or speaking skills. In fact, God doesn't need our abilities at all. God is more interested in our availability. One can have all the lingusitic skills, and informational libraries available, but if the heart is cold, where will the fire come from? The heart, the human heart, needs to be the place where we actively seek after the God of this Universe. Moreover, the God of this Universe delights when we pursue Him. He has directed the stars, the planets, the galaxies, yet He takes time to commune with us tiny little creatures, on this tiny little planet called Earth. I encourage you to follow me deeper in your walk with God. This includes many things that are conducive to building a strong relationship with The Master. We need to read the Bible continuiously. The Bible is a very long book made up of 66 smaller books, and the only way to have a mind that is tethered to scripture, is to synergistically understand how the 66 books fit together, and tell one story of God redeeming mankind to Himself. Memorizing scripture is a very good way to internalize the Bible and is very rewarding. Many know the famous, John 3:16, "For God so loved the World". I find when I run through my memorized scriptures on the job, waiting at the doctor's office, etc., my mind and attitude quickly stand up and I become sharper and more alert. We need to pray, yet if we do not read and internalize scripture, how can one honestly go to God and pray with any level of confidence, knowing that we are not really seeking God, but instead we just want what is on God's table. And finally, having read the Bible, having memorized the Bible, having repetiously and fervently sought God in prayer, we need to take God into our world. On the job, at church, in society, we ought to be able to see God in everything, and alert those who come in contact with us, that God is faithfully and continuously moving and working in every moment affairs. So remember, God doesn't need our ability, God just needs our availability. Are you available?

The Winds of Change are Blowing.

The "Winds of Change" are blowing, can you feel them? This week I ended a tour on a job I have had for 5 years. I am moving to a different company, in the same field, only this time, with pre-existing experience. The pay is much better, but I feel anxious and that I need to prove myself in a strange new environment. My faith in Christ is very solid, but I am struggling with sin in areas which is something that a mature Christian should acknowledge is a lifetime struggle. Nonetheless, when in the Spirit, I feel the desire to shed the sin nature, as it robs me of my utmost potential and communion with Almighty God, the One Lover of My Soul. For now, I have to continue to Fight the Fight of Faith, and do my best to walk in the Spirit. At 52 years of age, it has been very hard leaving one job for another. As a young man I could care less, as I probably held 1000 jobs. But now I am much more circumspect, redeeming the time, and very aware of my encroaching mortality. At my last job, God had a few assignments for me, and I know He will have more at my new location. Once I was a baby Christian, a Bible student, etc., but now an ardent Christian Apologist with an arsenal in my library, and in my mind. This is a straight call and grace from God, to have this knowledge and the aspiration to uncover such knowledge, and I am forever grateful to "Abba" My Father. Many times I have believed that God needs a really bad apple for a disciple, and I have earned that title as well as The Apostle Paul claimed he did. The one thing you come to learn in any intellectual pursuit, is that the more you learn, the more you realize how much you do not know. But, we cannot know it all. We are individuals, each with our own distinct gift from God Almighty. So just flower and bloom, right there where you are, God will send those He is preparing, if we will but prepare in service to The Master. Yes, The Winds of Change are blowing. Frightening, exciting, interesting, and poignant to the psyche, are the Winds of Change. We must move forward. God walks with us, in front, and behind us. He has prepared this moment of graduation and stewardship, and it is a thrilling time to be both human, yet to walk and move in an eternal, consequential, endeavor, following God one step at a time, never totally knowing where the next step will be, but waiting on The Lord, as is the method God uses to keep us on chair's edge, cherishing His voice, His presence, and His unfaltering direction. Thank you Father, for those times I tested you, and all on Earth, with my wandering ways. You have stood in the gap for me Father. You have redeemed my most evil atrocities, by Your immutable grace, You have smiled on me, in the midst of the fire. You have melted me, broken me, and reshaped me, a multitude of times, but You never saw it proficient to rid Yourself of me. What a Mighty God You are! I do not deserve the air I breathe, yet I feel Your smile at this moment. One day soon, You will change me, to be a little more like You. That is the day I long for Dear Abba. Thank you for not giving up on me, and please give me a heart for others as well. I love You Lord!