November 17, 2005

• Is that Joel?

  
  

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  If you have read this post before, please read the update below.  I'm trying not to post like 3 a day. LOL
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  Have you ever been so preoccupied and done something stupid because of it?  Last night we had practice for our dance team (Zionsake) and afterwards I was standing outside talking to one of the ladies on the team about life.  She’s one of the types of adults every young person needs in their life.  For the most part I look up to her as a spiritual mother and enjoy her listening and Godly council of advice.  We were talking about life and what’s going on in mine.  Well as many of you know I have like 50 million things (ok so I’m exaggerating a little here) on me at any given time.  The Rabbi’s wife (our dance leader) always says I need a man purse but that is beside the point.  Back to the story…  I put my HP iPaq (handheld) on the back of my car in the crease that’s between the window and the trunk, but it wasn’t like in the middle of the car I placed it on the edge of the car.  Well were talking for like 30 minutes or so and the wind started to pickup and it began to rain so we both run to our cars and left.  I’m almost half way home (5 miles from Zionsake) and some guy starts beeping his horn and yelling at me through his window.  I was talking to Joel on the phone at the time and I think I hung up on him on accident.  I’m thinking what the heck did I do?  Did I cut him off?  So I started to fumble for my passenger window to roll it down to see what’s going on.  That’s when he proceeded to tell me that I had a Palm, phone, or something on the back of my car.  At this point I totally forgot that I left my iPaq on my car so I was like hmmm I wonder what it is.  I pulled off the road to see what in the world this guy is talking about.  I get out of the car and look at the back of my car and then I see it!!  I couldn’t believe I left it there.  It stayed there the whole time through my driving and the pouring down rain which was surprising.  I called Joel back once I got into the car and told him the story.  To this moment I thank God it was still there.  Once I got to work this morning I turned it on to see what would happen since it was soaked with water the night before.  To my surprise it still works except for the little keyboard that attaches to the bottom of it.  It looks like I will have to buy another one of the little keyboards, but at least I don’t have to by a new iPaq.
  

  
  

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  Ok I don't know how many of you have been going through some things lately, but sit back and read the following:

  
  

  
  

  Isaiah 30:18
  

  Yet ADONAI is just waiting to show you favor, he will have pity on you from on high; for ADONAI is a God of justice; happy are all who wait for him!

  Psalms 27:14
  
  

  Put your hope in ADONAI, be strong, and let your heart take courage! Yes, put your hope in ADONAI!

  
  

  If it's one thing I still have a hard thing doing it's putting my hope in God and leaving all my cares to Him.  Life is full of decisions and worries and as the good humans we are, we try to do it in our own power and ability.  While this isn’t the best thing to do, God will sit back and wait for us to finish so He can take over.  I’m still trying to learn how to get out of the way of God and let Him lead my life.  As American’s it’s so easy to loose our dependence upon God as we have everything.  It makes me wonder if this is why we don’t see the body walking in the same power the early church did.  As a generation that has always had everything at our fingertips and for the most part lack nothing, it becomes easy to take for granted the many blessings of God and begin to deny His power in our lives.  You look at other countries where they literally have to depend on God for their next breath and we are worried about so many things that don’t really matter.  I look at the life David and Abraham lived, and want that same closeness with God.  I want to be at the point in my life that my walk with God is so close that nothing else matters.

  
  

  How is your personal walk with God? Do you trust Him with the small, day-to-day decisions? Are you living in continual dependence on Him? Are you in the place and attitude where He can get your attention?  

  
  

  If you can’t answer Yes to all of these questions then I pray that God begins to stir up within you the desire to become closer to Him.  God reveal to all of us how to walk in your ways and not our own.  Show us Your heart so that ours may mimic Yours.  Teach us to put our trust in You not only for the major issues in our lives, but for even the little things.  Help us walk in Obedience and keep us Pure and Holy. 

  
  

  ~Amen

  
  

  I’m not sure where all that really came from, but I’m sure someone out there can use this besides me.

  
  

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