What September held

Ah September, a month that I've always liked. What do you see when you close your eyes and think of this month? For me it's changing leaves, a cool breeze in the air, and a new hope, determination, or excitement about the new school year. It's hard to believe that I've been out of high school for 2 years already...I'm getting old!

But back to September. This September I finally scored a job as a barista here in KC, I witnessed for the first time to someone by myself and they got saved, I helped my roommate make food for catering a wedding for 10 hrs straight(record), I attended the prayer room for 100 hours, got a letter from my grandma, I started playing guitar again, said happy birthday to my brother, fought off stupid fruit flies day after day, started that painting up there and got a great revelation on how much better my life is now than it was before I was living for God.

Of course it wasn't all fine and dandy. I also took out the trash this month :p, went a few days on only a couple hours of sleep, had some late assignments, and spent a lot of time feeling frustrated and lonely. But overall this month has been a good month.

I would like to talk about you now. It's based off of the revelation (a deeply moving insight from God) that I received on my life. So many people that I know see God as a very angry person. They don't get what they want, they get mad at God. Something bad happens in their life, they give up on Him and accuse Him of not being there, or not caring enough to stop it. Or maybe they are surrounded by people who are getting touched by God, but they're not and think God doesn't love them because He's not touching them too. If you're one of those people think very hard about the main reason you're mad at God. Now think of every good thing that's in your life. Your cars, jobs, family, love, any simple pleasure in life. The bible says that all good things are from God. Not some, or just good things related to church, but ALL good things. Now ask yourself this, have you ever lied to someone, stolen, sworn? Even if you passed that test I can guarantee that you have been angry at least one time in your life. Jesus said that just being angry at someone is murder! Tough huh? Well according to the bible if we break the least of these commandments, which we all have, we have sinned. God could be justified in snuffing out your life right then and there. But if you're still reading, He didn't. Now we've all obviously done much worse things that just getting angry at someone, so the real question is, why are we still alive? Why didn't God kill us? He could do it at anytime and yet He hasn't, yet we fully deserve it. Nobody can tell me that God is not good. We all deserve death right Now! Do you see where this is going? If there were an earthquake in California today, people would accuse God of being mean and heartless, the real question we should ask God is why didn't you wipe out all of America?! It's because He's good, merciful, and has no delight in the death of the wicked.

So, how do you view God today? Cold and heartless? You're wrong. Mean and distant? Wrong! Loving and kind? Right :) So no matter what you think of Him, He still thinks of you with love. He loves you, no matter your age, past, or present and I say there's more of Him for You today! Don't live with Him as just your God another day, live with Him as your friend. "Those who can live without more of God, will. Those who can't, won't!" What do you want from Him? Go get it!

-B