|  On the way to Sacramento!
Our first meal on the road!
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| This is a question I have long asked myself. I mean come on, there are great men and women that have been born, and lived out their lives in great service to God. And then there is me, poor pitiful me who can not go a day without stumbling in some way or another. My life can be such a failure sometimes I just want to “throw in the towel” as it were and just give up. And even when I do strive to do my “best” for God and “do it right”, I feel like God is saying, “yes your doing this, but what about this other thing”?
The other day I was driving in my car and as I was driving out of the blue God seemed to say, “Nathan are you ready to die.” I was socked, I mean I’m still young, I have not even begun to live. But it forced me to review my life and ask myself, “If I were to die right now, would I be ready to face God?” Now I know I’m saved and I will go to heaven that is sure. But I had to think, “What have I done in my life for God since I’ve been saved?” Because if have not really done anything worthwhile then God might as well take me home right now, after all what good am I doing down here?
It was very sobering to think about it. God just seemed to bring up instance after instance in my recent life where I had been favoring the world over God. Where I had been seeking my own pleasure and being completely blind to opportunities God had for me to be a witness for him. God used a very good friend of mine recently to show me this last point.
You see we were traveling with a group of people to go down town and as we were traveling on the train this friend was able to share the gospel with a man. I noticed this and also noticed a young man sitting across from me and I felt prompted to speak with him. We had a good conversation, but every time I tried to steer the conversation toward the things of God he seemed to not be interested. As I stepped of the train I felt both a sense of joy that I had talked to someone about the Lord and also sad that he seemed to reject it. My spirits were brightened however to find that the other man my friend had been talking to had accepted Christ into his life, and who knows God may yet be able to reach this other young man.
After that time however I did do some thinking about that whole thing, but soon forgot about it until the time when I was driving. “Why did I not notice the man right off?” “Why did it take someone else to show me? And I had to honestly ask myself, “Why did I even go downtown” and deep down I knew the answer, I had gone mainly to have fun and enjoy myself.
At that point driving there in my car the pieces of the puzzle started make sense, God was trying to teach me something.
As I draw closer to him and his word, God gives a heightened sense of the spiritual realm. Almost like taking the filter off a lens, the full image was always there to begin with. But also in the same way when I draw closer to the world, my sense of God and his things becomes distant and cloudy.
When I get to heaven God is not going to judge me by how much money I saved or how many friends I had, but he will look at how well I lived out my life by the standards in his book, the Bible.
“Every day may I be reminded of how worthless I really am without God, but how much worth I have with God in my life”
-Nathan
"This world is not my home, i'm just passing through." |
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| Here is a little video I put together about how my family celebrated Christmas. Enjoy and..... Happy New Year!
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(Photos courtesy Barak)
Amazing year guys!
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| Ok on a bit of a lighter note I thought I would have a bit of a contest:
What is he thinking?
Let the posts begin!
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