Seems lik ean awkward sentence don’t it? We are crap. We are crap. We are crap. Man, it just sounds like I’m super depressed and have no intention accept to say that the human race sucks.
But that’s not what I want to say at all.
I haven’t been on wordpress in a while. I just had decided I was going to use my xanga.com/lifeforgiven06 blog as my only blog to let people in on life. But it’s not like that with xanga. I write simple quick quirks to let people know whats going on with life, do some kind of evangelism, and leave it at that. Somedays I show my frustrations about stuff, but nothing too major I guess.
Here at wordpress I teach. Now it isn’t teaching like I teach in a classroom, but just a small blog among many other blogs. This blog I want to be geared toward evangelism, but I also want it to encourage someone when life is crappy. Hence the title of this blog.
Life does suck sometimes. Rejection sucks. Weather sometimes sucks. But what sucks the most is not having purpose. Now when things suck, I tend to turn around in the direction I’m going. I tend to bottle up inside my apt not giving anyone a glimpse of the struggles I’m going through. It’s really a deadening thing. I think the greatest thing I need to keep in mind when things suck is that God does not. In James chapter 1 and 2 it talks about trials. Ya’ll know what trials are so I don’t have to speak to you like second graders. God does not suck because he puts us through these trials to teach us to trust him more… and more… and more. Can we ever “over-trust” God? Answer: not really. As long as we’re in our human skin, we will distrust naturally more than we will trust… hence growth and trials. Because of this natural-ness in our human-ness, we will never “over-trust” God. If we think that we are starting to, we’ll automatically start “sinning” to not be? But in reality, when we start thinking we are, we are, in fact, failing at trusting God. Get it?
So back to this having purpose. I know we’ve all heard it before, but let me get real with you. Atheists need to know something: they have no hope at all. It’s depressing living off of facts which haven’t been able to be proved. When you live for your Creator, God, you live with purpose. That doesn’t mean you’re going to be become a great evangelist like Billy Graham or Mark Driscoll. If everyone were to become a great evangelist, we’d not have a proportionate body in Christ. It’d be so focused on selfish and competition. But I can say when you live for your Creator, God, you have purpose. That purpose might be something that seems boring like “worshiping God”, but I want to tell you something: it’s amazing.
Don’t try to be something or someone, period. Be a worshiper. You might be thinking: how in the heck do I be a worshiper? (more to come)
