A Deep Thought

 Today we are in a world that is hopeless, do you know why that is? Here is a thought for you. They all are wanting something, they have lost the true meaning of life, love and joy. For some reason in the last 30 years, the world was flipped on its end, it was tipped upside down. They think it is what can I get and no longer what can I give. 

For example love, love isn't love until you are willing to give it away, love is just a word to so many people. It is tossed around, used, abused like it is going out of style. It is just a word to so many people, if you ask someone what it means, they really can't tell you a true definition of the word. Love is an action. How many people can say they love someone, but yet they are disrespectful of that person, they are mean, hateful, disobedient, etc... That is not love, that is the opposite of love, but yet they still say I love you. See love has been taken and the word love has been broken, just as we have been broken by the word love. We do not trust that word anymore, because we don't know how to trust anymore. We have lost hope in the people that speak the word love, yes even the Christian people that speak the word love, because they too are broken. We all have sinned, we all are broken, we do not measure up, but when we as Christians put Jesus Christ first in everything we do, I mean everything and that includes using that word love, we say I love because He first loved me, it means that I base my love not on the worlds love, but I base my love on His love, that changes everything. We can't base what we do on the world, but on Him who sent us. 

The world doesn't have Jesus, they don't understand the hope that we have in Him, they don't understand the Love that we have, because He died for us, that we have, because He came to us as a baby. They don't understand that He was born to us and because of that we have the true meaning of love, we have the true meaning of hope, we have the true meaning of so many things that the world is missing today. They are lost in depression and lost in themselves, because they can't see outside of themselves, how many Christians do you know that are in this same boat? They have lost the true meaning of Jesus Christ or maybe better yet, they never really knew the true meaning. Hard place to be, hard truths to hear, we all have had hurts, we all have been broken, crushed, but God. We all have been left, betrayed, but God. Jesus is here today, what are we missing when we say, there is no hope? When you hear that from Christians, what is your response? 

Today is a new day, yesterday is gone, tomorrow is not here yet, but Praise God we have been given a new day, He gave us a new day to live. Why I don't know, but He does and I will trust in Him. For He has a purpose and a plan for me today. And I know He has a plan for you. We go through things to learn, what we do with what we learn, God is in control, we trust God to lead us through. When we take things out of His control we take it on our own power to do it, which is horrible and we become hopeless just like the rest of the world. Time for a change.

To Much Work or Is It?

My second thought for the day is more about our actions. We are given choices in life and those choices are to help us along the path which we have chosen to be on. However we can chose to make the choice that will make it easier or harder for us, but that is ultimately our choice, it isn't someone else's choice or someone else's problem or fault if we chose not to make the choice at all. It is our choice to choose. That is the issue today, there are people that want to blame others for the choices that they will not make, they want to blame others for the choice they have made, instead of realizing that the choices they made are their own decisions, based on their own brains. We all have a brain and we all know the difference we can make based on our past, present and what we define as our future, we can make valuable choices, we don't have to look to others to decide what is the right choice by others actions, we can choose it based on what is right for us. Because what is right for me, may not be right for someone else. Remember that, when I share what I am about to share.

I find it very hard when people are given a choice to make, this choice is either they can get better by doing a certain thing. For example, I have joint issues, I can solve the joint issues, by taking a herbal supplement daily, the choice I have is I can take the supplement daily and feel the difference or not take it. That is my choice, but that sad point is, when someone says it is too much work taking the supplement, so they choose to stay in pain, because they think that taking the thing that can help them feel better is too much work. It takes me approximately 1 minute to take the supplement, how is that too much work? Same with other things. 

If that is too much work, how is their spiritual walk, we have to wonder if taking a herbal supplement to help them feel better is too much work. How about walking closer to God, will that be to much work too? Generally how we approach our daily lives, is how we are going to approach our spiritual lives as well. Same with our relationships, if you have ever seen a marriage that is falling apart, look at there relationship with God, how is it going? Because generally when the marriage relationship is broken and they are not willing to work on it, the same holds true in their relationship with God.

I find it amazing how the simple facts of life are forgotten, how the simple things, like our own choices are forgotten, because we are caught up in the world of life. We forget that our choices are having a lasting impact on those around us. Just think, how you treat those around you, who is watching? Those are being directly influenced by your choices, by how you talk, what you do, how you react. Now think about your relationships, how are they? Are they drawing you closer to God or is it the very thing that is driving you from God? These are hard questions, but if you are not willing to take the look at yourself in the mirror, you aren't willing to take the thing that will fix the very problem. You too wills say it is too much work. 

Nothing is too much work. Have faith of a mustard seed, God said it, I believe it, do you?

Gender

 I am taking a different role here today, because I have a bug in my side. We as Christians seem to have blinders on, we seem to miss things. I have heard it said by many that God has made two genders, that they are defined in the Chromosomes. Just look at the Chromosomes and you will be able to tell if it is a boy or a girl. Have you heard this? I am sure you have, XX and XY, that is the definition. That God only created those two things and that is it. 

Well, I have news for you, if that is true, than I am a true misfit, I don't fit into that and then where do I belong? Does that mean God did not create the men that have Chromosomes that are XXY or even more? We as Christians need to be cautious of how we lay things out, we need to look at science before making rash statements, because I have a genetic syndrome, which sets me apart from most other men, does that make me less or different maybe, but do I need to be an outcast by my own brothers and sisters of Christ? No, it shouldn't, but when we use statements that God defined male and females by the Chromosomes we exclude the people that have different chromosomes. 

Today, I would just like to say, there has to be a different way, take a look at science, take a look at what God is saying. Because God did create male and female. But to those people that the chromosomes don't align with the nature that people are preaching from the pulpits will be turned off and walk away, be careful, because we do exist out here, we are not just one or two. 

I sat thru a class were the pastor told me that we are defined male and female by our chromosomes. After the class, I approached him and asked him, what does that mean I am? I said Dave, I have XXY, what does that mean I am, does that mean God made a mistake making me? He didn't know what to say, because so many people put God in this box, we can't put God in a box. I think this for me is a blessing. I see things differently than most males, I see things through different eyes, I don't relate to many people, I don't get along with most males and I have issues, but God. He made me this way for a reason and I am thankful.

The reason I share this, because remember that God is God, we can't put Him in a box. We don't know why He does what He does, but when we try to define what He does, He throws us a curve ball. Maybe I am a curve ball, I don't know, but I do know that God made me, doesn't mean He made a mistake. I may have both male and female chromosomes, but that doesn't mean I am a female, but it does mean I am different. Next time you think  you can define something by a term, make sure you look it up. My 4th grade teacher posted an article on Facebook trying to say the very thing, males and females are defined by chromosomes. I sent him a link to the Klinefelter's page, he took down his article. Be careful what you post, because it affects people like me. 

Have a blessed day.