December 14, 2005

When you don't want a lazy day, and you want to have something to do, more often than not, God will give you things to do.

I found today that God will guide you places just at the right time for you to be where you're supposed to be.

I say this because I visited my old job today, and saw that the day after I left, things became, from what I saw, much worse in policy and in regulation. It seems God led me out just in time for me to dodge a bullet.

As superficial as that may seem, I DO think that God sometimes saves us from small, stupid suffering as well as the big stuff.

Also, musically, God is moving with my life, I think.

In three days time, the talks of a new band with good friends has gone from talk to fruition. In times like this, when things fall as easily in line as this, I feel it is no credit of mine, or anyone but God's. I hope this is the case and that He has finally delivered me to where I am supposed to be, in terms of fellowship with a band, and friends.

Also, it's funny how God will make something abundantly clear when you least expect it, especially in terms of financial dealings.

My friend told me today that they are ready to pursue the heart of God again, but their only drawback in this sense is they can't find a church they like. I am at a lost for a way to convey to them that they doesn't need a building to find the Lord, that sometimes, in some lives, a building can even interfere with finding God and what He can do. Maybe it's not the time for me to tell them at all, but for God to step in Himself and move their life.

It amazes me how everytime I think I'm running out of faith, I can simply turn to the word of God and find an endless number of passages that encourage me, and I can talk to Him and everything seems good again.

I know that's a repeated idea, but it's so important that it's worth a couple of repeats.

How do we come to grips with the idea that the things God does for us never have to be repaid, but in faith and love? That for the insane amount of work done for us, in our terms, to save our lives, and all we have to do is accept that the work was done for us? And love Him for it? How do we get to the point that we can just accept that?