This might be a strange question to ask, but I am sure you will understand it later on in my blog. The question is: Are you ready to die? Now stop and think, what is your response to this question. I want an honest opinion, so, if you have to, take a moment and write down what you are thinking. Okay good, now continue.
This could cause several different responses, but most of them orient themselves around one of the two. One, you could think: "What? Why would I be ready to die? My family will miss me, I won't be able to see my friends. I have so much I want to do. Why would I want to die?" Two: "Die? Sure. My life is hard, and yea I think it would be nice to go to heaven. I mean there will be cool stuff up there and I wont need to worry anymore about what I am going to do." This is how I see it, I think you need to die, before you can live. Live for God that is, which if you are it will be the most exciting time of your life.
Now I want you to take a moment and reflect, what was your response to the question (this is why you should have written it down). You see, the response you have semi tells you where you are on your walk with God. If you are ready to die, if your life is hard, then God can use that to help you trust him with your life. If you need help to get back up onto your feet, then all you need to do is reach up and accept God's helping hand, but there are so many people who would rather just sit where they are because they can't get back up. They would rather lay there and suffer instead of letting God pick them back up onto their feet.
Now if you were not ready to die, then this says (now I am not a psychiatrist or anything so don't expect life changing news) that you are still holding on tightly to your worldly life. If we love our life and how we live, then how willing will we be to do what God says? This is especially the case if God wants us to leave home and go out on the mission field. I think that in order for us to live for God we need to be willing to die for him at any moment. You may think your life is going really well and that nothing could make it bad, well you are wrong. God wants you to trust him with everything and as the bible says God loves you, so he will at first nicely nudge you in a way to basically say 'trust me with everything.' If you listen right then, then you would have saved yourself a lot of trouble. If you ignore his nudges, then (Just to let you know, this will not always be the case, none of it will necessarily go like this, but I think this is common enough that it is worth mentioning) God can allow your life to fall apart, and will continue to let it crumble until finally you put your undying trust in him.
If you are going through hard times. If you are going through something that you find as unfair, then praise God. Because it is most likely a test, that God has allowed to happen so that you will follow what he wants you to do and believe me resisting will only make things worse. If you are going through anything like this, don't get angry at God, praise him. For he has chosen you for something that is so amazing you could only imagine what it will be like.
So let me ask you the question one more time: Are you ready to die?
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Thursday, June 2, 2011
Time?
I am sorry for taking so long on getting back to this, but finals were tough and I was really busy, anyways here I am once again sitting on my lazy bottom and writing a post that is (once again) totally out there.
So time. It sounds simple right? but if you really think about it, this four lettered word really covers a lot. I wont go into all the definitions because already I think I have bitten off more than I can chew.
First of all, wouldn't it be great if we could simply escape time. I mean picture a room that is completely outside of time. You walk into the room, do three hours worth of homework, and walk back out of the room not even a second after you walked in. Not only this, but you could also go to bed for ten hours in a single second. How cool would that be! We would have so much free time to hang out with friends, because the only thing that would get in the way would be work. I mean what if we had whole schools in these rooms, so that you would really only be at school for a fraction of a second and yet get all of the work done. Or if you are me, you could just go into the room and write a book for three days (I feel a new plot coming along!). One other funny thing about this, is that with these rooms, age would be a variable. One could easily spend nine months in such a room in order to change his birthday, his age, and even if some one really wanted to they could mature faster than their friends (That is just an idea, I mean it is definitely not something I would do, lol). We could also go the opposite way. what if someone went into a room for a second and came back out and already a year had passed. (This is kind of what I use in my newest book, "Soucar and the Sphere")
You might not have realized it but if you think about it, time is the most important thing in the world. The average person in the world has about 70 years to live (on earth). Now this is a very limited time if you believe it to be all you have, and because of this people try so hard to have the best time they can during those 70 years. Not only is time limited, but time is the only thing that you can never take back (well at least as far as I can think of), do you get what I mean? Think about it, the time you spent reading the beginning of this Blogg you will never be able to take back. That moment is over. So the real question becomes were you satisfied with it? and this applies to every single moment.
Say you have a grudge against some one, so instead of having a good time you force yourself not to just because of that grudge. Well 2/3 months later when the problem is finally resolved, are you satisfied with the time you waisted? This doesn't just apply to friendships. What about the computer? Xbox? Playstation? or Wii? after spending hours on one of these, think about it, what have you really accomplished? After your 70 years are up, will you be glad that you did that?
For me I have been working very hard on spending my time well. Even though it is summer I try to go to bed at 12 and wake up at 8. On top of this, I try not to play video games unless I do it with a friend, because alone, well it is a total waist of time. When ever I do something I always think about how I would look back at the moment, and weather or not I would be glad that I did that. Luckily for me when I write my books I feel accomplished, so whenever I have free time I don't just waist time, I start working on my book.
However, even with my strategy, once I die it is all gone. I can't enjoy my books once I die. I can't exactly be proud of them. So it all boils down to two different ways to spend your time wisely. One, (if your a Christian) you can read the bible or pray in order to grow in your relationship with God, or do something to progress his plan in your life. Two, you can try to leave a positive effect on your community. But besides these two things everything else is worthless. Don't get me wrong, I think hanging out with friends is great and all, but this just shows you where we should put our priorities.
As I rap up this whole topic about time, I would like to encourage you to not take the time you have for granted. As you see people walking about in your community, picture a timer ticking down above their head. For some the numbers will be higher than others, but all together they are drawing closer and closer to that dreaded 00:00. This will help you to remember that time is limited, and for many could be running out. So live each moment with your family and friends as if it is your last, because, like the bible says, no one is guaranteed the next day.
So time. It sounds simple right? but if you really think about it, this four lettered word really covers a lot. I wont go into all the definitions because already I think I have bitten off more than I can chew.
First of all, wouldn't it be great if we could simply escape time. I mean picture a room that is completely outside of time. You walk into the room, do three hours worth of homework, and walk back out of the room not even a second after you walked in. Not only this, but you could also go to bed for ten hours in a single second. How cool would that be! We would have so much free time to hang out with friends, because the only thing that would get in the way would be work. I mean what if we had whole schools in these rooms, so that you would really only be at school for a fraction of a second and yet get all of the work done. Or if you are me, you could just go into the room and write a book for three days (I feel a new plot coming along!). One other funny thing about this, is that with these rooms, age would be a variable. One could easily spend nine months in such a room in order to change his birthday, his age, and even if some one really wanted to they could mature faster than their friends (That is just an idea, I mean it is definitely not something I would do, lol). We could also go the opposite way. what if someone went into a room for a second and came back out and already a year had passed. (This is kind of what I use in my newest book, "Soucar and the Sphere")
You might not have realized it but if you think about it, time is the most important thing in the world. The average person in the world has about 70 years to live (on earth). Now this is a very limited time if you believe it to be all you have, and because of this people try so hard to have the best time they can during those 70 years. Not only is time limited, but time is the only thing that you can never take back (well at least as far as I can think of), do you get what I mean? Think about it, the time you spent reading the beginning of this Blogg you will never be able to take back. That moment is over. So the real question becomes were you satisfied with it? and this applies to every single moment.
Say you have a grudge against some one, so instead of having a good time you force yourself not to just because of that grudge. Well 2/3 months later when the problem is finally resolved, are you satisfied with the time you waisted? This doesn't just apply to friendships. What about the computer? Xbox? Playstation? or Wii? after spending hours on one of these, think about it, what have you really accomplished? After your 70 years are up, will you be glad that you did that?
For me I have been working very hard on spending my time well. Even though it is summer I try to go to bed at 12 and wake up at 8. On top of this, I try not to play video games unless I do it with a friend, because alone, well it is a total waist of time. When ever I do something I always think about how I would look back at the moment, and weather or not I would be glad that I did that. Luckily for me when I write my books I feel accomplished, so whenever I have free time I don't just waist time, I start working on my book.
However, even with my strategy, once I die it is all gone. I can't enjoy my books once I die. I can't exactly be proud of them. So it all boils down to two different ways to spend your time wisely. One, (if your a Christian) you can read the bible or pray in order to grow in your relationship with God, or do something to progress his plan in your life. Two, you can try to leave a positive effect on your community. But besides these two things everything else is worthless. Don't get me wrong, I think hanging out with friends is great and all, but this just shows you where we should put our priorities.
As I rap up this whole topic about time, I would like to encourage you to not take the time you have for granted. As you see people walking about in your community, picture a timer ticking down above their head. For some the numbers will be higher than others, but all together they are drawing closer and closer to that dreaded 00:00. This will help you to remember that time is limited, and for many could be running out. So live each moment with your family and friends as if it is your last, because, like the bible says, no one is guaranteed the next day.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Nature, how normal does that sound?
So we have all seen the sci-fi movies (or books) where there are those crazy natural disasters. For example rocks falling from the sky, the earth splitting open to form huge chasms, or acidic rain that burns your skin if it touches you. Well now just think about all of the things we have now, think hard, because we essentially have all of these things in our world. Yea I know we don't have acid rain, but we did. You might be thinking, "Yea, but Philip, we don't have rocks that fall from the sky." Well, what about hail?
There are so many things that happen in our world that just happen often enough that we don't think of them as weird anymore. Okay, so back to rain, one of the simplest types of weather right (well of course besides the usual sunny and cloudy days). Sometimes clouds can dump up to three inches of water, now think about just how much that all weighed. Think, that was all just floating up in the sky! Thousands of tons of water just floating above our heads and we call this normal. Just imagine explaining this to someone who has never heard of, or seen clouds. Good luck on explaining hail and it just gets weirder from there.
Wind, simple enough right? Well if you get strong enough cross winds, then a Tornado would be the result. Okay if you are by a window, look out side at your neighbors house. If you live in Kansas and have no neighbors, well then you could probably just look out side and see an actual tornado. Anyway, think of how something as gentle as wind can actually have the power to rip that house right off of its foundations.
Earthquakes, if you think about this, does it not sound like something straight out of a science fiction novel. I can picture it right now: "The solid earth beneath his feet started shaking. There was no where safe, even the old reliable ground was no longer trustworthy."
Okay enough with the natural disasters, but everywhere you look there is something crazy going on. So crazy in fact that I think calling it normal (Which to me labels something as 'Boring!') is incredibly misleading. A pine tree for example, it starts off with the pine cone. When the cone releases its seeds, the seeds themselves are smaller than a penny, then give it several years and BAM a forty foot tall tree! Yea, sure its normal, but does it deserve that title? Lets see scientists put some piece of equipment in the ground and in twenty years there stands a nice ol' machine that gets energy from the sun and feeds off of the nutrients in the ground. Then on top of that, lets watch it create more seeds so that it can create more machines just like it.
Now lets not forget all of the crazy animals we have, like fish who breath in the extra oxygen in the water, or birds who have hollow bones and a perfect wing shape that enable flight. What about amphibians who start off the first part of their lives basically as fish, then they grow arms, legs and all the other things you see that frogs possess. Eyes, I am not even going to begin to explain how they work, mainly because I myself don't fully understand them, then there is the oxygenating of our blood which is actually what keeps us alive. Or if you want to get even more narrow, the individual cell. Just think of all the processes your body is doing right now as you just read this. If you ate just a little bit ago, then your stomach and intestines are digesting your food to run all of your bodily functions. Your lungs are constantly expanding and collapsing to allow air flow, your heart is pumping the oxygenated blood. Thousands of veins and arteries carry your blood to and from the muscles that need the energy and oxygen. Each and every single one of the cells in your body is burning calories so that they can do their jobs, and or form new cells. Then there is your brain, the thing that gives you the ability to think, process, see, feel, taste, move, learn, create, draw and remember. Now tell me, how is it possible for all of this to happen by chance?? These are the things that we call normal, so if normal things are as complicated as these things I have mentioned, then just imagine what isn't normal!
There are so many things that happen in our world that just happen often enough that we don't think of them as weird anymore. Okay, so back to rain, one of the simplest types of weather right (well of course besides the usual sunny and cloudy days). Sometimes clouds can dump up to three inches of water, now think about just how much that all weighed. Think, that was all just floating up in the sky! Thousands of tons of water just floating above our heads and we call this normal. Just imagine explaining this to someone who has never heard of, or seen clouds. Good luck on explaining hail and it just gets weirder from there.
Wind, simple enough right? Well if you get strong enough cross winds, then a Tornado would be the result. Okay if you are by a window, look out side at your neighbors house. If you live in Kansas and have no neighbors, well then you could probably just look out side and see an actual tornado. Anyway, think of how something as gentle as wind can actually have the power to rip that house right off of its foundations.
Earthquakes, if you think about this, does it not sound like something straight out of a science fiction novel. I can picture it right now: "The solid earth beneath his feet started shaking. There was no where safe, even the old reliable ground was no longer trustworthy."
Okay enough with the natural disasters, but everywhere you look there is something crazy going on. So crazy in fact that I think calling it normal (Which to me labels something as 'Boring!') is incredibly misleading. A pine tree for example, it starts off with the pine cone. When the cone releases its seeds, the seeds themselves are smaller than a penny, then give it several years and BAM a forty foot tall tree! Yea, sure its normal, but does it deserve that title? Lets see scientists put some piece of equipment in the ground and in twenty years there stands a nice ol' machine that gets energy from the sun and feeds off of the nutrients in the ground. Then on top of that, lets watch it create more seeds so that it can create more machines just like it.
Now lets not forget all of the crazy animals we have, like fish who breath in the extra oxygen in the water, or birds who have hollow bones and a perfect wing shape that enable flight. What about amphibians who start off the first part of their lives basically as fish, then they grow arms, legs and all the other things you see that frogs possess. Eyes, I am not even going to begin to explain how they work, mainly because I myself don't fully understand them, then there is the oxygenating of our blood which is actually what keeps us alive. Or if you want to get even more narrow, the individual cell. Just think of all the processes your body is doing right now as you just read this. If you ate just a little bit ago, then your stomach and intestines are digesting your food to run all of your bodily functions. Your lungs are constantly expanding and collapsing to allow air flow, your heart is pumping the oxygenated blood. Thousands of veins and arteries carry your blood to and from the muscles that need the energy and oxygen. Each and every single one of the cells in your body is burning calories so that they can do their jobs, and or form new cells. Then there is your brain, the thing that gives you the ability to think, process, see, feel, taste, move, learn, create, draw and remember. Now tell me, how is it possible for all of this to happen by chance?? These are the things that we call normal, so if normal things are as complicated as these things I have mentioned, then just imagine what isn't normal!
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