Thursday, June 28, 2012

An Undesireable God

Is God desireable?
From what I read God is, "a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness." Psalm 86:15 
Now that sounds like someone I want to know, someone I want to run to no matter the cost.  If this is the case, why are so many people running away from God? Obviously this is happening for many reasons, but I think one of the main reasons is because of God's followers; because of Christians.  We all know people who label themselves a Christian but then go around and spread the wrong image of God, and we all do the same thing to some extent.  All of us who claim to be Christians should be striving to be more and more like Christ and yet we live lives that are far from it.  Where God is compassionate and gracious, we are harsh and ungiving.  Where God is slow to anger, we are ticking time bombs.  Where God is abounding in love and faithfullness, we are abounding in judgement and inconsistency.  No wonder people run from God.  If we are to ever effectively comunicate the gospel we must first effectively display the desireable characteristics of God.  I am not trying to say that there is no room for error and we must constantly live perfect lives or no one will turn to God, God is bigger than our failures.  What I am trying to say is that we have to start examining our own lives to see the ways in which we are creating an undesireable God.  I encourage all of us to continue pursuing God with all that we have and continuing to become more like Christ!

An undesireable God only exists when we improperly manifest the characteristics of God

Sunday, June 24, 2012

All I Have

This is my story;
My plans for the future,
My current thoughts and struggles,
My retelling of the past,
Who I am,
Who I want to be,
And most importantly how God has changed and is changing me.
I started a blog two years ago and did a terrible job keeping up with it and now it constantly gets spamed so here I am for a fresh start in the blogging world.
I am twenty years old and simply trying to figure out what God has in store for me without overlooking what he has already placed in front of me.

God has given me all he has, and so he now gets all I have (that isn't much since I am a poor college student).  But all joking aside, I am trying to hand over my life and desires to the one who has promised to give me the desires of my heart if only I delight myself in him.
"Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart" Psalm 37:4

Welcome to my story! I know this one was a short post, but hopefully I will be feeling more inspired down the road.  Oh, and by the way, if you want to check out my old blog, here is the link http://aboundinginlove.weebly.com
~Alex