Glazed.......

I was sitting here tonight wondering why people always feel the need to try something other than what they have… a 2009 Chevy when the 2006 they have works perfectly fine? Why try the new Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper knowing full well that nothing can ever replace the taste of regular D.P.? The answer most people will give you is to expand their horizons…. Cause if you don't try it, you will never know, right?

While I, for one, am open to trying the newest fad in soft drinks, test driving whatever the hottest car out might be… even wearing something I might not have been caught dead in 2 yrs ago.. There is one area in my life where I am not willing to settle for something "newer", something "more up to date"…. What is this you ask?

GOD.

Simple isn't it? If He was the beginning and ending for people 2000 years ago… why isn't He good enough for people today? He has been running water to the Israelites, light to the Hebrews, a burning bush to Moses, and a Savior to all. So why shouldn't He be our "iPhone"? our "Bentley"? Our one thing, we just cant seem to live without?

The answer is as simple as the question… We live in a Krispy Kreme world. A lovely place, where if you want a raspberry swirl donut with chocolate icing and sprinkles.. you can have it. All you have to do is dream it up, or ask around and the "right choice" seems to appear out of no where. But the thing I have noticed is the people, that no matter what options are out there.. how many flavors they might have, always go with the original glazed.

So let me send this question out into the void… "What is He to you? Flavor of the week? Or the Original that cannot be equaled?"

I've made my choice..

Crystal or Cracked China?

Since everyone on here seems to be blogging about things that are on their mind, I thought I would follow suit. For a few years now I have had a thought running through my head and I think its finally time I share it with whom ever might be reading this... There is no telling how it might reach, so here it goes...

How many times have we read the Bible and read and reread the scriptures about the Gift of the Holy Ghost? I am sure it went in one ear and out the other, so to speak. Preachers have taught on it, Teachers have singled it out for Sunday School lessons.. and still it never really hit home.. until one day..

Most of us have been given the Gift of the Holy Ghost, so why is it most never use it? How do you use it, you ask? Let me put it to you this way..some people choose to accept their gift, then promptly put it up on a high shelf, but never open it. Others accept it, open it.. but in the end, still set it on a shelf. So few open their Gift, and immediately put it to use. I know that I am as guilty as the next person... I happily accepted my Gift, opened it, showed it off.. then put it on a shelf. It can be seen, and to the naked eye all may appear normal.

So many christians are like beautiful china vases... on the outside they appear flawless. Perfect in the way they are made, they serve their God given purpose, but if you could ever see inside they are completely empty. There is nothing inside to fill up the dark hole. It's almost as if people are afraid to use their china (their Gift). What good is it if it just sits there? Sure its pretty to look as, but is it serving its purpose? If you just leaving it on a shelf, that's all it is. A decoration. God doesn't want us to be just a decoration for Him. He wants us chipped,maybe have a crack or two, something He can use every day. Why can't we be more like crystal? Transparent.. where He can shine through. Where people can clearly see whats on the inside, and the out...

So why do people run from the gifts God gave them? Why do we put them up on that high shelf, and never think about using them except for an occassional dusting?

Here is some food for thought:

1 Corinthians 12:12 - For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. (13) - For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. (14) - For the body is not one member, but many. (15) - If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? (16) - And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? (17) - If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? (18)- But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

1 Corinthians 12:21 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. (22) - Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary (23) - And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.


Romans 12:5 - So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. (6) - Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; (7) - Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;


Ephesians 4:11 - And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; (12) - For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:


I know this may seem like ramblings, and I tried hard to get my thoughts across so people could understand whats been on my mind. :) Please feel free to share your thoughts, feelings, scriptures, ramblings.. whatever with me.