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Podcast - A Perfect Day June 14, 2008 7:46pm Saturday
Sometimes our own pride gets in the way of what we are doing, it influences what we are doing actually motivating us; our desire not to look bad in our own eyes and/or in the eyes of others. It is so often that pride that makes it difficult for us to hear that quiet voice of God; even in the little things we know what we should be doing but we don’t do it.
Amidst this idea we’ve all had days that we consider “perfect” and days that we consider “not going our way”. Believers that are focussed on God’s will however have a different perspective; at least we try to have a different perspective. As believers we try to understand what God’s will is during any given day, even during a particular moment of our day. And when things don’t “go our way” we try to realign our desires with the standard, God, instead of “our will”.
Friends, even believing friends, are often an unintentional influence in this struggle as we ourselves are. And when we allow ourselves to be influenced by the pride “we don’t want to disappoint them” we commit a sin that is just as great as when we allow our own wills to influence us over the will of God, that ever so quiet influence which we should be focusing on. “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”.
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“Left wing”, “right wing”, “too far to the left”, “extremist”, there are so many titles to describe people that have one opinion or the other. “Nuts” is another title that I’ve heard thrown around, even at myself. I remember when God gave me faith about the year two thousand or two thousand one that a friend of mine advised me that I should stop talking the way I was or people would think that I was crazy or “an extremist”. … I say let them; because what I have come to know is far too real for me to deny. … What happens in this world is so temporary. I can not deny what I’ve come to know. This podcast touches on those that I hope to one day be in good company with ,,, I say one day because I have yet to have taken it as far as many of them have.
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Podcast - Those In Need
June 12, 2008
7:19pm Thursday
There are many in need, and there are those that live a life in such a way to not put themselves in direct contact with those in need. Even more than that they do everything they can to protect what they have instead of doing everything they can to help those that are in need. There is an imbalance that I believe that the Lord will balance for others if they do not chose to balance it themselves. But the Lord is patient and desire for each person to instead correct themselves.
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Podcast - Not What I Wanted June 09, 2008 9:22am Monday
Occasionally I have parts of my days that “Don’t go my way”. And that “not going my way” part can have it’s genesis in any number of things. For me it usually is some combination between “time” and/or “money”. For instance it might not go my way because I wanted to be somewhere at a particular time and that “being somewhere” may also have an impact on an opportunity to make money.
That idea of our day not “going our way” is a popular part of American culture which is contrary to the culture of the first century church that believed that God (or gods if you were pagan) was the contributing factor as to both the big and the little parts of your day (of course I’m oversimplifying for brevity). … Chasing after what we want (which is what I did on this hour of June the 9th) is a part of the poison of this culture which is contrary to the will of God. If we chase after what God wants then we can pursue something that has value. Anything else that we pursue is “a chasing after the wind”.
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Many people justify their lack of godly thought by saying that they aren’t perfect. The scriptures do not teach us to be justified by this idea. To the contrary they try, by showing us the example of love that Christ gave to us, to have us own up to the wretches that we are, convict us of what we have each done to separate us from God, and to accept that we can only be justified by God’s holy response to the true wretches that we are. The good news is that Jesus Christ, the Messiah was sent to die for an unholy man; each of us.
This podcast is my own reflection of the wretch that I am, the impurity of my mind; and my desire to have a heart and a mind that would be acceptable to God. I do however understand that I can not have a mind or heart that are acceptable to God except that they be transformed by the sacrificial gift of the Christ.
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This podast shows me at one of my much less than perfect moments (aren’t all my moments less than perfect?). My heart and mind were set on condemning and judging others and it seemed that I was stuck in it. But God’s grace was there as always to eventually turn things around.
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The part that God plays in our lives is both big and small. There is no
part too big or too small that God will effect if you will not let him,
but that’s up to you. God seldom comes barging into our lives, he
seldom lays a heavy hand on us to get our attention. This podcast
focuses our attention on the things that we believe are ours.
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I experienced urban camping (homelessness) for a short period in 1990. And over sixteen years later I spend one or two days a week on the streets or in the shelters to spend time with those that are on occasionally on these streets. While at these shelters or while spending time at other places on the streets in the U.S. I sometimes lament over some of the things that I see or hear. This week’s podcast expresses some of those things.
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This is my first podcast and my first attempt at doing anything multimedia since God gave me the faith that he’s given me just a few short years ago. .. At the time I was a host of a live call in computer show, but I didn’t do very well trying to make the transition of TechHost to Fisher of Men in my Live show. The biggest delimna for me was that the show was about Technical tips and new technology but I wanted to start speaking about Jesus.
So here the delimna is solved. This podcast is about how we can not follow God if we are following our own hopes and our own dreams. I consider this first Podcast very basic but the future ones I believe will be more intimate, about personal things (like my weaknesses) that I pray that I will have the courage to confess.
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Confession of Another Man Thursday May 11, 2008 0710am
Just got home and I’m not feeling like myself. I’m feeling like I’m somebody else and I’m not really me. I’m feeling, as odd as it might sound, like I’m a man that is in another part of the world, perhaps somewhere in the south, and I’m not a “normal” sort of person. That instead I’m a somewhat not normal person that doesn’t quite fit in with most other folks. I “feel like” I’m a man that doesn’t have anyone else, you know a man that is single longer than he is supposed to be. A single man without a family that spends his time doing everything he can to do what he believes is right, but in the process has lost much of his family and nearly anyone that would have been in friend.
I wish I could be like he was though. I gave up my life a long time ago to pursue what I wanted to pursue. I wanted a wife, and a family, and a job that I could rely on the provide for the family that I had started. I wish I could give all of this up to do what I have finally found was more important. … You see, I do believe in God now … and more than that I believe that he is the only sane reason for living. And I believe that Jesus Christ laid down his life for my sins. I wish I had made other decisions before, decisions to follow the God that perhaps I did know on some level before but did not want to accept because I knew that would get in the way of the things that I wanted.
If I had only trusted and believed that God would provide me with the things that would make me happy in this world, and more importantly in the next. If only I had not pursued my own happiness when I was younger, if I hadn’t pursued my own way, to pursue what I thought was right in my own eyes back then. … Is it too late now? Can I turn back the hands of time, and “give up” the wife and the family that I built to pursue what I wanted to ‘do’. … And if I don’t do that now, will I only look back thirty years from now, much “wiser” knowing that I should have given up my wife and family to live a life like the life that Jesus showed me I should live? And if I look back then, will I only have new reasons for not doing it then? … So if I don’t do it now will I ever do it? What guarantees do I have that I will live to see sixty and even be able to look back; perhaps today is the day to give up even my wife and family to pursue God’s will.
