Blog #7 Can God use me?

Dear readers,

I know for everyone of you reading this ask yourself this very question. What is my purpose in life or can God really use me? Most of us think that, no, he can’t use me and we make a list of a million excuses as to why he can’t use us. That said list would just go on and on and never end, but the real answer is yes he can use you to further along spreading the gospel to people to have yet to hear it. 

For example, Jesus’ disciple Matthew is someone who you would never have thought that he would become a disciple because he was a tax collector and people did not really like him. He would later on become a man who left that life and followed the Lord. I am sure that Jesus had many reasons as to why he chose Matthew and I think that one of those reasons could be to show us that no matter what life he had, once the Lord entered his life it changed for the better. He then would become one of the well known biblical figures that we know today. 

Another example would be Peter, another one of the disciples of the Lord. He was a simple fisher man until the Lord came and said to him, “follow me.” It’s crazy to think about how many ways that a once former fisher man and tax collector would then leave that said life and spread the gospel to the people that needed to hear it. So the next time you ask yourself, can God use me, the answer is a huge yes. You just need to let him show you how. God Bless. Bye. 

Blog #6 Idols

Dear readers,

Now you have heard it said that you shall not bow down to  idols. It’s one of the Ten Commandments that the Lord gives us to follow. But the thing is people tend to turn from that and start to worship other gods that aren’t Jesus. Now Jesus makes it very clear that worshiping other gods is wrong. In Exodus 20:3-5 it says “You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on earth beneath of in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me”. 

Basically it’s saying that one should never worship a object that isn’t going to do anything for you. All it will do is just sit around and collect dust and it won’t love you, give you grace and mercy that Jesus does. Also, idols didn’t die on the cross for your sins either or rise from the dead on the third day. Those things were done by Jesus and not a man-made object. So let me ask you this would you rather worship a man-made object or an actual living God that loves you no matter what you have done? God bless you all. Bye. 

Blog #5 Materialistic

Dear Readers,

Like all of us out there we are constantly seeing a ton of advertisements for so much stuff. From the latest model of cars, the newest iPhone from Apple, the newest model of cars and beauty products you name it. It’s everywhere we look and in some ways it’s nice to have those said things but in a few years something newer and better will be coming along and taking it’s place. 

There are a lot of us who would just love to have it all. But the big problem with that is no matter how much you spend just to get that newest item you will never be satisfied at all. So keep this in mind that the things on earth won’t last forever. Don’t ever set your heart on all of the materialistic items of this world. 

1 John 2:15-17 talks about just that. It says this “Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the father is not in him. For everything in the world -the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does- comes not from the father but from the world. The world and it’s desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever”. That’s something to really think about too. God bless you guys. Bye