Second Coming October 21st, 2011

Have you ever felt "lost"? As in, not knowing where to go from here, or just feel like you're not accomplishing anything or as much as you should be? Well, I feel like this is where I am now or have been in some ways. But the concern is not necessarily personal goals but mainly spiritual concern. By now, if you are reading this blog, you probably have heard about Mr. Camping who has been predicting the end of the world, and people actually believing that Jesus was going to come and leaving anything behind. Although I am aware that no one knows the day or time of Jesus' second coming (Matthew 24), I was not so satisfied with my response (and was thoroughly disappointed by the mockery displayed by Christians on facebook)....I was disappointed that: I was so focusing on the idea that he was wrong for putting a date on Jesus' coming that I lived life like I was going to make it to see the next day. I felt so complacent and so nonchalant. I THOUGHT to myself, man! what a perfect opportunity to go out and teach people about what the Bible says about Jesus' second coming, but I did not DO it. I THOUGHT of going from door to door or writing a note on facebook or something about our world today, but I DID NOT do it.

Essentially, I feel like I am too "comfortable" right now in my spiritual walk with God, and that is NOT okay. So I am making a deal with God today: If I spend more time with Him, He will not only motivate me to do greater things for Him, but He will also use me to be more passionate about His word.

I read the following this morning for devotion: Check!:

Women of firm principle and decided character are needed, women who believe that we are indeed living in the last days, and that we have the last solemn message of warning to be given to the world. They should feel that they are engaged in an important work in spreading the rays of light which Heaven has shed upon them. When the love of God and His truth is an abiding principle, they will let nothing deter them from duty, or discourage them in their work.

The Saviour will reflect upon these self-sacrificing women the light of His countenance, and will give them a power that exceeds that of men. They can do in families a work that men cannot do, a work that reaches the inner life. They can come close to the hearts of those whom men cannot reach. Their labor is needed.

(http://egwdatabase.whiteestate.org/nxt/gateway.dll?f=templates$fn=default.htm$vid=default)

Bear Each Other's Burdens

How frustrating it is when you are trying to get someone to "get it" and s(he) is taking forever to get to "your level of understanding". If only they were perfect...well, if only WE were perfect.

A Perfect person in his/her eyes, is someone who:

UNDERSTANDS them.
is PATIENT with them.
is HELPFUL.
is able to MAKE HIS/HER life EASIER.

When you are frustrated with someone (especially family members), remember that the PERFECT person LOVES, and that regardless of the person's shortcomings, that person wants to feel loved and valued...


Love is: patient, kind, NOT easily ANGERED, keeps NO records of WRONGS.
IT ALWAYS protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Bear their burdens, and Pray. GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF THE REST. NO matter how IRRATIONAL they may appear to be. :)