i have never had so much traffic to my blog in...like....well....forever!
in the past couple of weeks i have had visits from france, thailand, germany, australia, dominican republic, canada, and all kinds of places in the u.s.! it's interesting to see what people have been interested in reading and analyzing the data...so very interesting! looking at some topics, but not the spiritual ones (faith, spiritual growth)...check them all out, you'll learn a lot more about me.
if you're a recent newbie to checking out my journey in "looking toward the Son"...welcome, and enjoy browsing...i hope you enjoy looking at my journey. it's been up and down, and with some major ups and major downs...but it's my journey and i'm sharing it with you if you're checking it out.
enjoy!
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
awesome perspective...
this morning i was reading an online devo at TGIF--today God is first. i have never been to this site before, not sure why i didn't find it in the links on our church's site until now, but i do believe God led me there to read this devo. it reiterates what i've said all along about people God uses...
Becoming a Mighty Man
by Os Hillman
All those who were in distress or in debt or discontented gathered around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him. - 1 Samuel 22:2
Have you ever felt that you could accomplish a whole lot more if you had more talented people around you? Perhaps you are in an office and think that some of your fellow workers don't quite measure up. Imagine what David must have thought in the years following his anointing by the prophet Samuel as the next king of Israel. He spent the next many years running from King Saul. Now God was beginning to bring men to support David. But what kind of men? The down-and-out. God gave David not the elite or the sophisticated; He gave him those who were in debt and discontented with life. David turned those men into the best fighting men of their day. In fact, David never lost a battle during his entire reign as king of Israel-quite a feat for a bunch of no-name, lowlifes! Some of those men became an elite group known as David's Mighty Men. These were the elite of the elite, the Navy Seals, the Few Good Men, the Green Berets. Whatever you call them, they were exceptional warriors.
Jesus took a few men who weren't exactly the cream of the crop either. He built His life into these men, which resulted in 12 men who turned the world upside down. Are you one of God's mighty men or women? Are you investing your life to build other mighty men or women? David and Jesus set the example of what can be done when we invest in others. God does extraordinary things through men who have an extraordinary God. Ask God to use your life to be a mighty man or woman for a cause greater than yourself. He delights in such prayers.
i find it interesting that christians many times think they know more than God does, so they judge someone's usefulness to the Kingdom by their own ideas of how someone should be, not happy with the fact that God does use imperfect people who may not measure up to the standards of what the world views as successful or important or useful or even Godly. when God calls someone into ministry, it doesn't mean they are going to be perfect and never make a mistake, it doesn't mean that they will always do what everyone else thinks is God's will. they will do their best to follow God and seek his direction for their lives and ministry. but they will fail in the eyes of men, even if on a small scale, and not something big. men will be disappointed in them, but God knows they're called to do his work and that even in (no, in spite of) their imperfections, he will be made known.
God is extraordinary, we are merely ordinary...all of us, no matter how high we lift ourselves up because we think we know better than others...but God knows better than us. so why do people constantly find the need to question him, by questioning his use of imperfect people to accomplish his extraordinary things?
pray for your leaders, lift them up to God to protect them and to use them for his purposes...not ours...and try to be more gracious toward them, they're not perfect, but they're being used to do extraordinary things!
Becoming a Mighty Man
by Os Hillman
All those who were in distress or in debt or discontented gathered around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him. - 1 Samuel 22:2
Have you ever felt that you could accomplish a whole lot more if you had more talented people around you? Perhaps you are in an office and think that some of your fellow workers don't quite measure up. Imagine what David must have thought in the years following his anointing by the prophet Samuel as the next king of Israel. He spent the next many years running from King Saul. Now God was beginning to bring men to support David. But what kind of men? The down-and-out. God gave David not the elite or the sophisticated; He gave him those who were in debt and discontented with life. David turned those men into the best fighting men of their day. In fact, David never lost a battle during his entire reign as king of Israel-quite a feat for a bunch of no-name, lowlifes! Some of those men became an elite group known as David's Mighty Men. These were the elite of the elite, the Navy Seals, the Few Good Men, the Green Berets. Whatever you call them, they were exceptional warriors.
Jesus took a few men who weren't exactly the cream of the crop either. He built His life into these men, which resulted in 12 men who turned the world upside down. Are you one of God's mighty men or women? Are you investing your life to build other mighty men or women? David and Jesus set the example of what can be done when we invest in others. God does extraordinary things through men who have an extraordinary God. Ask God to use your life to be a mighty man or woman for a cause greater than yourself. He delights in such prayers.
i find it interesting that christians many times think they know more than God does, so they judge someone's usefulness to the Kingdom by their own ideas of how someone should be, not happy with the fact that God does use imperfect people who may not measure up to the standards of what the world views as successful or important or useful or even Godly. when God calls someone into ministry, it doesn't mean they are going to be perfect and never make a mistake, it doesn't mean that they will always do what everyone else thinks is God's will. they will do their best to follow God and seek his direction for their lives and ministry. but they will fail in the eyes of men, even if on a small scale, and not something big. men will be disappointed in them, but God knows they're called to do his work and that even in (no, in spite of) their imperfections, he will be made known.
God is extraordinary, we are merely ordinary...all of us, no matter how high we lift ourselves up because we think we know better than others...but God knows better than us. so why do people constantly find the need to question him, by questioning his use of imperfect people to accomplish his extraordinary things?
pray for your leaders, lift them up to God to protect them and to use them for his purposes...not ours...and try to be more gracious toward them, they're not perfect, but they're being used to do extraordinary things!
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