There is so much going on in our world right now. I’ve thought about taking pain pills before sitting down and watching the evening news. There is so much devastation, sickness, hate, and crime. It’s no wonder people live in fear. People fear the most what they don’t know. Mainly, they don’t know what is going to happen in the future.
What’s going to happen to my 401? Funny in a way, most people in the world don’t even know what one is much less have one. They’re more concerned about catching the Coronavirus. If they don’t contract the virus will it affect their job? The world has for certain become a smaller planet. We are more connected to people in China, South Africa, India, and Europe than ever before.
Then there are problems here at home like politicians not getting along and acting like they are in kindergarten all over again. Wildfires out of control, severe storms that cause flooding, mudslides, and total devastation from wind damage.
You might be saying, “Thanks Captain Obvious! We know!”
What this world needs is climate change! You might be thinking, “We have that too!”
Just a thought: how do we know what the temperature was before the floods of Noah’s days? I’m saying, what if the earth’s temperature is just now getting back to what it was before all that water covered the earth? A lot of the water froze because the ground was covered. Anyway, back to our regular scheduled program already in progress.
The kind of climate change I am writing about is in our in countries, our states or provinces, in our cities, on our street, in our home, in us. You see, a lot of people want things to change. The very people who live in fear, but they either don’t know how, or what to do.
Believing in God is not just a cliché,
but the start of laying a solid foundation upon which to build your life. Accepting Jesus, as God’s son, and asking for the forgiveness of all your wrong doing gets you access to all that God offers his children. Protection, guidance, direction as well as a host of other things, the walls, we need as mankind. Then asking for the Holy Spirit to dwell within us is the roof. Our structure is complete. The Holy Spirit not only brings peace, but power to stand firm anytime, and power to do things for God.
Real life, built and lived out on Godly principles, changes everything. For one, there is perfect peace in God, and perfect peace cast out fear. it changes not just us, but our street, our cities, our states, our countries, our world. Things in our world aren’t going to change for the positive until we, those who know God and act like it, do. Then, as God, through his Holy Spirit leads us, we can change the climate of our world. I’m in! Are you?
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I was staying in hotel for a few days. I decided to go out, and at the elevator met up with this older couple. They were dressed in their “Sunday go to Meeting” clothes. That’s what we say here in Oklahoma anyway. They were dressed up very nice for those who don’t understand.
I got remarried yesterday evening, after being divorced for twenty-three years. I no longer have to check that dreaded little box, “Divorced”. I married a wonderful woman of God who is a Filipino. The only problem is, I’m an American, and she is not allowed to enter the United States without a Visa, which could take a year or longer to arrive. When she said, “I do,” she became an “IR”. Instant Relative. This status gives her priority over everyone else trying to enter America by any other means. Work Visa, Student Visa, Fiancé Visa, etc. It also gives her access to a “Green Card” and two weeks after she arrives in America she will get her Social Security card. Being an “IR” has instant privileges.
Yes, that quote is from the movie, “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Why am I referencing it? Well, for the last two weeks I have been working many hours a day to prepare for a major move in my life, and I have witnessed God’s mighty hand all along the way.
…I don’t expect to be embarrassed in the least. On the contrary, everything happening to me in this jail only serves to make Christ more accurately known, regardless of whether I live or die. They didn’t shut me up; they gave me a pulpit! (Phi 1:20 MSG)
Traveling to new places can be exciting, exhilarating, and exuberant. It can also be daunting, especially when your phone doesn’t work. One of my mother’s friends said, before my trip to the Philippines, that he couldn’t even find the airport in his home town, much less one 7000 miles away. Trust me, there were many times when I was praying, a lot. Especially when I arrived and couldn’t find my host family. Turned out, United had started using a different terminal in Manilla 3 days before my arrival.
I have always said, “I would rather be one mile behind God than one inch in front of him!” But recently, I feel as though I am trying to catch my breath doing my best to keep up with him. It’s as if I am running late to the party, God has been inviting me to all year. I just didn’t see it. He was orchestrating a new season in my life, and I didn’t even notice him hanging the decorations.
A young woman had been praying for a man of God for years. She had cried out, “God do you not care?” Not seeing any positive movement via the dating site she had joined, she decided to close her account. Three days later she received a message from an interested man. Love blossomed.
Who’s standing at the podium of your life waving the wand? Who’s directing you? Who is orchestrating every step you take? Who’s responsible for the sound coming from your life? God, you, or someone, or something else? If you believe in God and you see in your life things just seem to work out, look up, and smile at the conductor. God is doing everything you will allow him to, in guiding your life.
brady, mark a. 