24/7/365

There was a scene in the movie Forrest Gump  where Lt Dan asks Forrest "where God was in their time of need."  Forrest replied, "it's funny he said that, because right then God showed up"
The hurricane hits and wrecks all the other boats except for theirs. They strike it big "shrimping."  Eventually, it appears Lt.Dan makes his peace with God.

Most of us aren't going to strike it rich in the shrimp business, but that's okay. God is still on our side. It's not just in our times of need that God shows up. He's not just around when things are going as well as they possibly could be. God is always there for us on good days, bad days, and in-between days, 24 hour a day. 7 days a week, and 365 days a year.

We need to recognize His ever-present kindness and direction in our lives. There are times when our prayers seem to bounce off the ceiling, but that's not what's really happening. God is there!!! We can learn to see Him and trust Him to answer our prayers in His perfect way and His perfect timing.

God doesn't only come or go or show up in either good times or bad. He is there 24/7/365

borrowed most of this from Stand Firm devotional August 2014

Fan or Follower

I wrote this a couple weeks back when Ole Miss was playing in the  CWS.

Die Hard Ole Miss Fan or Follower?

If you know me , you know I bleed Red and Blue.  I can’t wait for Ole Miss Football,  Basketball,  and Baseball.  I subscribe to the Rebel propaganda  mag,  have ole Miss on my twitter feeds and several different Ole Miss sites  on Facebook.   For the last two weeks I have cheered and screamed at the TV  during the Ole Miss baseball games. Last night Ole Miss lost a heartbreaker  by what appears to be  was a bad decision by the coach.    After the game was over  I was not a happy camper. In fact I was probably pouting and really aggravated.  Ginny told me “sorry we  got beat.”   The light  bulb went off.   I was being slightly J  ridiculous.   IN the grand scheme of things , it was a ballgame.   It was an important game but still a game. And I wasn’t even playing.

It struck me how I cheered  for Ole Miss when we were doing good  and got down when we lost . That is when God dropped the rock on my head.     Why didn’t I feel that way for what Jesus loves.   Why don’t I have the same enthusiasm for His Kingdom as I do for Ole Miss Sports?  What if everyone who calls himself a Christian treated God’s Kingdom work like we treat the teams we support ?   Christian means “little Christ,” What if we  treated being a Christian like a sports team .  If we cheered when  we see God’s handiwork, the same way we cheer  when our team  wins.  What if we were full of grief and sorrow when  we see a lost person, the way we are when our team loses?.   What if we had the same  grief and sorrow over our own  actions?

I have Christian emails I get every day,  Christian  twitter feeds, but do I really digest them the way I do Ole Miss  articles. If I am honest I can say that sometimes I do and sometimes I don’t.  Matt 6:33 says Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness

God has to have first place in our lives.  The Bible says to love the Lord  with all your heart, mind , soul and strength . It doesn’t say to love Ole Miss or any other person or thing. Love God first!!!!

If Christians supported what the Bible says , the same way we support our teams it could literally change thousands  upon thousands  of lives.

I am sure that I will still be upset when Ole Miss loses and happy when they win but I hope I have a different perspective about it and I hope you do also.  Even for those that pull for other teams.

I still love my Rebels, but I know that I need to love Jesus more than anything else in life . Jesus doesn’t want fans He wants followers.

#notafan

Very Grateful

I saw the below link today and looked at it . I am very humbled by what I saw.
I dont know why God gave me/us the Blessings he did but I am very grateful. I Pray none of us ever forget how truly Blessed we are.
‪#‎blessed‬ ‪#‎thankyouLord‬

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/06/150383-9-pictures-around-world-will-put-life-perspective/

Trying to Understand

As human beings, we want so much to understand everything that is going on in our lives. We’d like to see everything that has happened and everything that will happen in a neat box all tied up with a pretty ribbon. However, God doesn’t work that way. You can’t place God in a box. Our God is way too big and far too great to be contained. He works in ways that we can’t possibly comprehend. As it says in Proverbs 20:24, “A person’s steps are directed by the LORD. How then can anyone understand their own way?” No, we can’t understand how God works – and that’s a good thing.

If we could understand God’s ways, then His actions would be limited to our intellectual capabilities. I don’t know about you, but I want a God who is limited by nothing! A colleague of mine once put it this way: “I don’t want to pray to a God who I can understand!” I want God to have ways to make things happen in my life when I don’t see a way. I want a God who can make sense out of my messy life when I can’t see a way to clean it up myself. I want a God who is bigger and smarter than me!

Friends, let’s remember that when we go through things in life that we can’t understand, it’s OK. We don’t have to understand. God understands and that’s all that matters. As it says in Proverb 3:5-6, “Trust in the LORD … lean not on your own understanding … and he will make your paths straight.”

With prayers for shalom, peace,

Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein

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