Important things had been going through my mind all day long. I knew it was my mom’s birthday today so every chance I got at work I would try to call and wish her a happy birthday. Work was long but accomplishments had surfaced. Things seemed to work out even if it wasn’t how I expected it to. That is God’s work for you right there, if something needs to get done or reached….even if it’s not the way you had planned on it….it will get done if it is in His plan. Something I learned a quite a while ago from a friend who helped me to become a Christian, If you pray for something or for someone or need strength and help, one way or another yours prayers will surely be answered BUT it may not always be in the way you wanted or expected it to happen. The one who taught me this knows who they are if they read this. I will also remember that because it is very true.
Actions really do speak louder than words and I really found this out tonight when I came home and presented my mom with a vase filled with beautiful flowers and a nice card. The smile on her face was so priceless that I think it was probably the best moment of the night for me. It felt so good to make her happy like that. She actually thought I would have forgotten, are you kidding me? I guess it’s times like tonight that remind me of how important family is and will always be.
Something…that I hadn’t givin much thought to til today finally hit me like a brick to the face. I think it really made the official impact when my friend Tim, who I work with, had made a nice sale. I could easily tell because of his actions afterwards. I am going to be as straight up as possible about what I’m about to say. I personally believe that Tim is a damn good salesman (pardon the french), and could really sell anything to anyone, I mean he makes a living off of it. So after observing everything in that moment or two, and on the entire drive home from work, it really surfaced after weeks maybe months of wondering around my head. I realized that there isn’t really anything that I am good at. And what I mean by “good at” is like a nitch that people have. Sales, Computers, Planes, People skills, everyone around me has something they have a thing for, I couldn’t think of one. A friend of mine texted me with some encouragement that I am a good sports talker, a good friend and one day I could make a good helicopter pilot. It did help hearing that and it’s possible, I can’t see the future but it could happen. It was just kind of a let down that I couldn’t stop thinking about for a while. God put me here for a reason, this I am sure of. Maybe to save a life. Maybe to be a great father/husband someday. I have no idea but sometime I’m sure He will reveal his purpose for me. Patience…..Patience.
You are a great man, son and disciple of God. You may not think that you haven’t found your purpose in life yet, but you have had a purpose. You are valuable to the other peoples lives you are in. A wonderful son who makes your parents proud, a good friend to me (and many others), and a missionary. Look at your friend Zak, you can be the seed planter in his life that changes his life. You may not have found what you are good at, but know that you do make in impact in everyone’s life. You are loved and cherished.
Have a wonderful God filled Day! Love ya man.
While you are waiting patiently for what God has planned for you next, know that you do have a purpose right now, a purpose to work in the lives of the ones around you! I know you have changed my life and I know you will change many more
By: M-Dawg ;) on January 17, 2008
at 8:01 pm
dedicated2him…seems to me that you’ve got the most important thing in life right…that is to be dedicated to Him! Seems like you are a broken earthen vessel…and isn’t that where you are supposed to be, so that He can shine his light and power out of your brokenness? Seems that you have inherited a great gift…the gift of eternal life…and that gives you a LONG time to figure out the plan of the maker in your life. Are you looking for something to be “good” at or are you longing for a purpose and a passion? The purpose and passion has found you brother, and the BEST of men are only men at best! Seems like you have great fellow’s to hang with…old school way to call this is fellowship! Seems like you all break some bread together…though be it fast food a bit too much…which some say can alter your mood for the worse at times. Seems like you study the Words that are from the Potter, ie the Creator of you (the earthen vessel) that He loves to shine His light and power out from. Seems like you do a lot of the things really well, like the folks did in Acts chapter 2:41-47 so long ago. So you are a work in progress, and progress He will make in you as you yield (give Him) more and more of you. And how does that differ from most of Gods creation? The big glob of goo of the worm that ends up in His creation to be the magnificent butterfly? The colt that cannot hardly stand that becomes the stallion to carry the knight into battle? The baby human that is so dependent on the mother breast and care for two years prior to even being able to stand on his own two feet. Your are a babe in Christ Jesus and you crave purpose and passion that comes from God. This craving, this hunger, this thirst…oh how it can be quenched in the drawing close to the Lord in his truths and promises. Brother, I pray that God gives you a vision of the work He is preparing for you to join Him in. I am praying for the blessing in your life, and that is the beauty that He has for you to rescue some day down the road. I am praying that the Adventure of your life would be in serving the Lord fully in your every step. I am praying brother that you understand fully that there is a battle to fight here and now. Christ is worth living for, and He is worth dying for. What do we have to be good at, when we have the BEST living inside of us controlling our every though, our every action, and our purpose and passion?
By: Disciple I.C.N. on January 18, 2008
at 9:17 am
I don’t have much to add to the great things that have already been said. I would just like to remind you that God made you in His image. I don’t think we ever get what that means really. When God looks at you He seems a piece of himself and He says, “it is good”! God doesn’t create junk.
Do me a favor and pick up your Bible right now when you read this comment and turn to Psalms 139. Read the whole chapter. That is the truth. That is what God thinks about you and His opinoin is all that matters.
For what ever my opinion is worth (not much) I think you are an amazing man and you are great at a lot of things.
Remember God tells us who we are and no one else!
By: philippians1v21 on January 19, 2008
at 4:16 am