December 11, 2005

Sometimes it doesn't take much to make you realize what you've been given.

I went to see what will be the box-office hit of the weekend, without a doubt, and it put things in a new perspective for me.

I have been thinking alot about what Christ did for us, lately. I mean, I know what he did for us, but I have been really thinking alot about it. It's never hit home before, quite like it did tonight. I was watching a pivotal point in the movie, and it clicked. I mean, to the point where I realized that it was EXACTLY what Jesus did for us. For the first time, I cried at the thought of what Jesus went through in His sacrifice.

One other thing I've noticed this week, and maybe finally come to grips with is that I may have put myself under the impression that the roller coaster of life would even out when I decided to put God in the number one spot again, in a serious manner.

I was obviously wrong. I think what God finally knocked into my stubborn skull was that the roller coaster doesn't let up, but it doesn't matter at all, because I don't have to let it affect me at all, because the hard parts don't have to be hard, and the easy parts become easier, all because I have someone besides me to rely on. He has a much better grip on things than I do, or anyone for that matter, and He's willing to take my problems and work them out. So although the problems don't go away by any means, they don't have to be as evident for as long.

I've had to make two of the most painful, important decisions of my life in the past week, and if it weren't for the help that God lended me in making them, I don't know if I'd have been able to have made them at all.

What's the point of a prayer if we don't mean it? If we say it simply to get it out of the way, or to look spiritual, is it nothing more than words?