God's Masterpiece

I once heard a story about a famous preacher who was admiring a friends art collection. After staring at one particuliar work that his friend was raving about, the preacher thought to himself quietly that it didn't seem very special. So much so he thought that perhaps that a child may of painted it.

His friend told him that he had purchased that piece for over a million dollars. This time he took the painting more seriously and asked who the artist was. His friend relpied "Pablo Picasso."

Suddenly this painting seemed to better than he first thought and after another 5 minutes of viewing he had really started to admire it.

Afterwards the Preacher realised that the painting had value because of who the painter is. It is the creator that makes it valuable.

Don't forget who your Creator is. God made you in his own image. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. Amen.

SHHHHHHHH and I will tell you a secret

Your heavenly,loving father has a an amazing and wonderful life ahead of you. You are earmarked for greatness. If he were to reveal your accomplishments to you in twenty years from now, you would fall down in awe and disbelief. So I say shhhhh and don't give up now. The best is yet to come. HE PROMISES

Give up some old friends this lent

For those that love and grow in Christ more, we can find some of our old relationships very different. Perhaps some old friends dont grow with us. They may hold you back, put you down or be constantly taking too much from you.
Such is the journey of love.
For the GOD that commands us to leave our mother and father certainly asks us to leave behind old friends at times.
Let us be like glow worms content with our own light and find others happy in their own skin.

Yes and no

Does God give us more than we can handle? The screaming chronic pain, the howling winds of cancer, blinding depression, broken marriages, empty wallets and many mouths too feed! Well many may say its seems that way.
Do such things even come from a  loving creator?
Certainly in these times we come a lot closer to our heavenly Father.
Maybe for many the walls close in on them more than they can hold them. So the short answer is Yes.
However he will always give you the strength to keep going.

“Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it. It is better to find God on the threshold of despair than to risk our lives in a complacency that has never felt the need of forgiveness. A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless than one that always verges on despair.” ― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

Dont be too guilty.

It is better to be angry at God than not believe in him.

Just keep going

Jesus said, "Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks will find, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened

Inside out or outside in?

The world is truly our oyster. So many things we can do or be or so it seems.
I watched The Men Who Stare At Goats and there’s some quality philosophy here…

Words spoken by LYN CASSADY (George Clooney)

Have you heard of Optimum Trajectory before? (No answer) Your life is like a river, Bob. If you’re aiming for a goal that isn’t your destiny, you will always be swimming against the current. Young Ghandi wants to be a stock-car racer? Not gonna happen. Little Anne Frank wants to be a High School teacher. Tough titty Anne. That’s not your destiny. But you will go on to move the hearts and minds of millions. Find out what your destiny is and the river will carry you.

Well the river is truly God. Find out what God wants you to do and the rest will be history. We can look at the world as if through a telescope and see everything we think we can do and be. God however lets us peep through his end which is the true focus. The concentrated view. The concise us. The one that we reveals what we were made for. Imagine if Shakespeare never wrote, Einstein never pondered or Alexanander Bell never tinkered?

Lend your energy and focus on God and he will concentrate your gifts and talents for you.