Today on the way to work I stopped to get gas and while doing so I noticed that my tire was low. After finishing at the gas pump I drove to the air pump to fill it up. As I was getting done I was approached by a man who had been walking for a while since I had seen him earlier. He asked me if he could have a ride ten blocks down the street. In my instinct with strangers I made up a lame excuse on why I couldn’t. I think I was late for work. (I can show up whenever I want and no one bats an eye) Then he stood there for a minute and then I caved. I motioned then said, “hop in”. As we headed down the road he mentioned something about weather, or I did I can’t remember but immediately after he said those famous fake Christian word, “well you know what the bible says”.
I continued on and dropped him off where he requested an spent the rest of the trip thinking about that phase and it continued to piss me off. When I heard those words it makes it sound like a book of facts. I can’t help but thinking that a majority of none believers see it as that and treat it like any other book out there. Then I realize my attitude towards it. I am quicker to pick up my phone when it vibrates or reply to an email after I refresh it 4 or 5 times. I have written words from God yet I ignore them like a spam email or a friend request from a student.
John 1: 1-8 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[a] it.
6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. 8 He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.
So many times I go through or read this passage and see these verses as clique or common knowledge but I don’t really treat them justly. The word, what I read from the bible, was there in the beginning. Before the events happened they were already written. It says that the word was with God. I really think that when he created the world he knew the path of every human. He knew what he had to tell us and what he wanted to tell us. Why do I ignore him so much?
Whenever I get to the point I am now where I haven’t read in a while and I need to begin again I always start in proverbs. It is like my dad giving me advice. Well, it is actually my dad giving me advice. I couldn’t sleep last night for a few reasons so I opened up proverbs one.
Verse 2
2 for gaining wisdom and instruction;
for understanding words of insight;
It doesn’t get more straight forward than this. Straight up…this is for gaining wisdom and to begin understanding what God has to say. The truth is that I am not very wise. Even though I attempt to make wise decisions I am far from being wise. I still struggle in areas but I am thankful that the blood will cover me at the gates. Me, I am broken and faulty. He is strong where I am weak.
10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
I am so glad that I don’t have to tackle life by myself.
Nos & Rehtaf, Dnabsuh 