Spring is here!

It's great to have spring finally here in the North! After a long winter, the hopes of a warm day help a lot. Not all days are warm, but some, like today are. Upper 50s is welcome in my town. Sunny and beautiful. I'm excited to do our school and finish up so we can spend some time outdoors. I'm looking forward to putting a load on the clothesline to dry so the smell of the outdoors comes in on us. Also it's eco-friendly. God likes eco-friendly. He loves when we care about His creation as much as He does. Grant it, He love us more, because we are the ones He created with extra special touch of the Master's Hands. He breathed His glorious life into each and everyone of us. Whether it have been Adam back in the Garden of Eden which was the first breath of life, to the baby born minutes ago in Indonesia from a Muslim or animism background. God breathed into everyone. Whether we acknowledge Him or not. Whether we ever choose to believe in Him or not. His imprint of life and the possibility of salvation through His Son, Jesus, is on the hearts of every person that has ever lived.
I know it's hard to believe in some cases. The mass evil that displays in some people or nations is horrifying. But that is not the work of God. It's the work of the devil. Satan...and yes, he is real! God created the angel Lucifer and he wanted to be greater than God and God wouldn't have it. It's not possible anyways. But for the opposition that showed no remorse or repentance God threw Lucifer and his followers, demons, into hell. We now know him as Satan. And saying that Satan exists isn't an excuse for sin. No far from it. It's an acknowledging that there is a force that is compelled to hate us and see our demise. Sure I believe in a person being possessed by a demon and there's oppression, the whispering in a ear. But it can't happen to a saved, sanctified and redeemed Christian. There was the debate on Nightline last week that was a hot topic on everyone's lips for a while. So that is what strikes up this part of the post.

The world needs Jesus...and the world needs to acknowledge and consider and believe in Jesus. His creation, His love is all around us everyday. If you can't see it, look to the cross He died on. It's his greatest display...and then the 3 days later rising from the grave....is His greatest VICTORY!
Stuff that Deepak Chopra!
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Alien-at-cha!

Well in Sunday school I've been teaching the little kids about being an Alien! Being a christian in a world that is not our final destination. They're enjoying the idea of "aliens" they laughed today when the puppet, Nick wanted to be have the Alien Superpower and claimed he could fly or see through others. Of course, he failed. But I was thinking. How we all claim we have something to do with all these wonderful things in life, when we really don't.
Like the accolades given to the heroes these days really don't have much merit. We all "think" they do, but don't. Think about it. It would be better if we said about them, look how God used them in this situation. That's much better.

What's our highest calling as christians? Well, to worship and honor God. Worship is our lifestyle, not just what we do with music or in church. It's a lifestyle that praises God with every breath. There's a song, done by who first, I don't know, but Newsboys does it. It has a line in it that Newsboys changed, which I like, because it's more truthful to our lives, even though it should be the other way. But it's "in all I do to honor you" instead of "in all I do I honor you". Even when the words say "I honor you" I usually change it to be more truthful than emotionally charged, to "to honor you". Because can we say that all we do honors the Lord? Sadly, no!

We all have our moments (if we can even understate it that much) that we do not honor Jesus. We lie, curse (whether it be by bad language or just by what we say) steal, cheat. It's a lot more subtle than we all think. All we have to do is look at another person lustfully and we've cheated on our spouse, their spouse, their very being has been violated. We can steal some one's right to their own opinions by casting our own on them. We can curse others by being that person who gossips or just "casually" says something not so nice about another person. Lying to ourselves daily about how good of a person we are. And lying to others by acting like we could walk on water if we wanted to.

We need our superpowers to be what the Holy Spirit wants for us and guides us to do and our Superhero is Jesus. The one who really does have supernatural powers and did sacrifice himself for us and save us from our sins. We are aliens here. We can have superpowers, just it will have nothing to do with ourselves or what we want. And it never should be.

My shows

Who out there loves the show Heroes? I sure do. My brother and I talk about it at length every week. What's going on? They can't kill off Claire! When will they get their powers back? I am looking forward to tomorrow night so I can see how the next part of the story pans out.

Madeline, my 9 year old, watches with me. We've received all the seasons on dvd up to now. We've been keeping up. Have you? There's no real value to the show. It sets off the imagination well though. What would it be like to have powers?

I know well though it isn't up to me. Jesus has all the "powers" I could ever need. He's the one who shows me all He's capable of on a daily basis. I look around and well there He is!

I like a lot of other shows too. All the CSIs and some others as well. It's fun to fade in and out of reality into the imagination of someone else, through a tv show of course. I'm not speaking of some weird spiritualism or anything. I'm grounded in God's foundation. It would be against my better judgement to allow any of the wiles of tv to infiltrate my senses to the point of action. It's better described in the enjoying entertainment of moderation.

Although as a Christian I'm called to excel. Be better than the moderate life that most lead. I sure hope you're following that lead too.