Month: June 2017

Excuses Excuse. We all have them don’t we? May be your excuse for not gathering with people to worship is that someone was mean to you. Maybe you don’t like the music. Maybe you don’t like the preacher. Maybe you don’t like the fact that they have chairs and not pews or pews and not chairs. The list could go on and on. I could list hundreds of reasons I don’t want to go places. God began a work on me a long time ago to show me that my way is not His way. That just because I don’t like things doesn’t mean that I get to be disobedient. Let me put it this way. When I was younger and just a teenage boy, my parents set a curfew. Remember what that was. Now I didn’t like the fact that my sister who was the same age as me could stay out an hour longer than I could. So I decided that I would just stay out like she did. Well there we consequences to that decision. You guessed it. I got punished. You see God has instructed us to gather with His family in corporate worship. When we chose not to, don’t expect your father in Heaven to act like everything is Okie dokie. God will take you behind the woodshed and tear up your spiritual backside. So remember that next time you think about an excuse to give about being disobedient.

In today’s society it is so easy to get off track. To run of the road so to speak. After all with cell phones everyone is either watching their phones or watching out for the other person on their phone. Don’t let an accident happen off the side of the road. It seems like everyone who has nothing to do with the accident has to slow down or stop so they can figure out what is happening. It seems like just about anything could cause us to run off the road or get off the path we are on. Our walk with Jesus is a lot like that. You see Jesus said to follow me and when we take our eyes off of Him and begin to watch the ditches or other distractions we lose sight of him. The devil will use any and everything to distract us or even make us crash. You see the more that we can be slowed down or even taken off course the more the devil wins. We are talking about Remembering God is on your side. Depression or lack of self worth will cause us to wreck in our lives. God will be the one there to encourage you even when no one else says a word. Just keep your eyes on the road and out of the ditches.

Yesterday was the day!! It is the day that I waited for my whole life. What is that you might ask? Father’s Day!!! All I ever wanted was to be a dad. I was going to do a much better job then all the guys who tried to wear that hat in my life. My kids and I would have the perfect relationships and they would be the perfect children. Well I guess if you know me at all then you have met my kids. I haven’t always been a good dad much less a perfect dad. You see we parent the same way that our parents did us, or we tend to go the drastic opposite. I have done both. It wasn’t until I got saved that I truly understood what it meant to have a dad that would love me regardless of anything that I would or have done. Now when the day comes around I am not trying to be anything that I am not, nor do I expect my kids to be anything that they are not. I love them for who they are and what they will become, just like God loves me. Happy Father’s Day