Flawed

I heard a good saying today... It isn't Christianity that is flawed, it is Christians. God has not given up on us, we tend to give up on Him.

When things get hard, it is easy to look to the problem, to look at the storm. Our focus is taken off of the solution and onto the problem. It is easy to lose sight of the actual solution. When God calls us to thank Him for everything, that even means the storms, because He sure knew that it is easy for us to focus on the storms, but once we are able to thank Him for the storms are focus is no longer on the storm, but on God. It is in the matter of perspective. When we thank God for what is happening, we tend to see His hand in it and no longer about the problem, but God being the solution.

There is no prayer to small for God, we tend to think our problems, our storms are to minor to pray, so we don't end up praying for them, but God says let all our requests to be known to Him, thank Him for everything. If we are choosing what requests to be known are we then playing God? I know for me, I do not make a good god. I am a man, I make mistakes, I stumble and I fall, but God is always right there to pick me up, but I have to be willing to confess my sins and He will always forgive them. There is no sin to great for God to forgive, I just need to humble myself and ask God to meet me right where I am at.

We can look at life many ways, but when we look at life as a struggle, we only see the struggles that are in our life, but if we look at life as a choice and the struggles as lessons we change our perspective. What is God trying to teach you today? Each day there is a blessing and lessons, we just have to be willing to look outside of ourselves to see them. When I am so focused on myself, I miss the very things that He is trying to show me. Life can not be about me, it has to be about God first, in all circumstances, not just the little or big ones, but in ALL.

God knew what struggles we would face, He knows how hard things can be, but when we ground ourselves in Him, we allow Him to fill us with a joy that is undefined, there is so much that happens, but it isn't easy, but it is God. He never said it would be easy, but it is so worth it, the change He is doing is far greater and far more wonderful then we can imagine. He see the big picture, we see a tiny piece of it all.