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Glad to be at work so I can rest

visioncgbc | September 02, 2008 07:16

Glad to be at work today so I can rest.
The weekend was full, very full.  I mean the entire weekend.
Friday night was 5th quarter at Joyful Noise.  Myra and Greg felt God leading them to offer a youth-led event after the football games on Friday nights.  I offered to help her in any way.  I absolutely love Myra.  Do you think God has a sense of humor?  See, when Myra opened the coffeehouse at Joyful Noise I was jealous.  Very jealous.  I wanted to open a Christian coffeehouse.  Holly and I.  Didn’t happen.  I just knew that Myra was stealing my dream.  Now, 3 years later I consider her a prayer partner and friend and battle warrior for Christ.  So, when she allowed me to help her Friday night in the coffeehouse, I could see God’s hand in it.  Me in a coffeehouse, but in God’s timing, in God’s way.  His plan.  Isn’t that awesome??  By the way, please come out to Joyful Noise on Friday Night.  Fifth Quarter starts at about 10:30, and they also have a concert at usually 7:00 or 8:00.  You’ll love it, just trust me.

Saturday was the community outreach and then the homeless shelter.  The community outreach was a chance to offer popcorn, and a little information on our church, and just a smile to people in the Chapel Grove area.  Anytime me and my aunt Pat are together it’s a hoot, and Saturday was no exception.  I want to offer a praise report that I didn’t’ get my arm chopped off.  There were several times when we knew that the people were not home, so Pat would just let me put the bag in their newspaper slot.  The problem-she technically didn’t stop; she’d slow down and expect me to throw the bag in.  “Pat!! What are doing??!!  I’m gonna get my arm chopped off.”  We’d bust out laughing.  We encountered a friend on our last row of people we were visiting, who at that moment I think needed a hug.  God is so wonderful.  I told Pat I believed our entire day was planned around that moment.  The shelter was next.  Pat and I went to get the other items we were going to cook, and headed to the shelter.  We made a pit stop and got me and BK Joe.  Well, we got to cooking and some people-a big group walked in.  The shelter had double booked churches to cook!! What could have turned disastrous-didn’t.  You’ve heard the saying about too many cooks in the kitchen, but that didn’t turn out to be the case.  Walnut Grove had brought an entire meal in addition to us.  So, the people ate as much as they wanted Saturday, and we made knew friends at Walnut Grove.  One man tickled me.  Now you have to realize what was on the plate: Pork chops, green beans, hot dogs, potato salad and bread.  Pretty good meal.  The guy picks up the bread and sees the pork chop underneath-“Where’s the steak??!!!” (He’s not joking)  He drops his bread and said he wanted more and so I gave it to him.  The guy who runs the shelter was worried I was offended and I told him it was totally fine.  The meal was good and there was enough left over for me to have some rice.  I love rice.

Sunday was church.  One of my favorite truths in the Bible was discussed:  That God is no respecter of persons and that the know-it-all group of old, really knew nothing- ‘cause being close to Heaven isn’t where a person wants to be.  Being close isn’t being in.  Sunday night church was Shine Night.  It was good.  So many ways of people glorifying God.  Vision planned an impromptu Tony’s trip after Sunday night church. 

Monday I slept until 10:00 and had absolutely no idea I had slept that late.  No idea.  The medicine my insurance won’t cover is out and I guess I just crashed.  So I got up and decided to try and continue to clean out Chloe’s room.  You have never seen the amount of stuff that is in that kid’s room. Her room is tiny mind you.  So I had pulled all of what looked like extra stuff out and put it in Adam’s room.  I knew better than to do this when Chloe is at home.  Everything I was going to get rid of Chloe would say “I might start playing Barbies.  I might want to start reading that book.  I might want that.”  Mark stepped in and helped me finish it up.  I realize it will take a lot of work to get my house in order.  I sure do want to. 

 

 

 

You know Chloe’s attitude towards things she hasn’t picked up in five years is how I see many people treating their lives with Christ.  They don’t want Him unless they decide they might want to start needing Him, or maybe some day they’ll want to start living with Him or for Him.  It doesn’t work that way.  We have a free will that’s for sure.  But that also gives us the freedom to choose the wrong path.  God is not some cotton-candy all-you-can eat county-fair experience,  when you want to go to where He is you go and spend the day and then leave.  God is not a “just in case” puppet.  He’s offended when we treat Him that way. 

 

Are you reading this???  Then it is not too late to tell God you want to start over.  I have to do that daily.  I mess up constantly.  But I want God to be more than a part of my life; I want God to be my life.  He loves you so much.  So much.  He just wants us to understand He loved us when we were unlovable and undeserving and to live for Him and do good works out of worship and thanksgiving. We can do this!!!

 

God,

Help us both today.  We’ve made mistakes.  You say you love us but we feel so unloved.  Help us to shake off the lies Satan puts before us and see the Truth and be set free.

Amen. 

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