Working Parts

When the Disciples where out fishing they where suddenly hit by a great storm. They started to panic and started to think that they where all going to drown.

They looked at Jesus and saw he was fast asleep so woke him up in the panic. Jesus woke and stood up and called out 'Peace be still'' and at that point the storm stopped and the waves calmed.

He turned to the disciples and said, why you panicking for, do you think Id let you drown?

What Jesus was did was question the faith of the disciples. He saw the panic in their eyes and was telling them to trust him.

I think sometimes putting trust in God can be the hardest thing to do when we go through bad times, and many time we just cant see the end of them. Time after time things just seem to go wrong one thing after another and before long it just seems like we are in the middle of the Storm.

How can you Trust in God when it seems that trusting him hasn't got you anywhere in the the past. When you have trusted and faithfully seemed to have followed his lead then it has all just come crashing down again.

A tricky thing to learn is patients, you want prayers answered the moment you say Amen, you want to touch that certain something but you just cant seem to reach it.

That's not how God works. It takes time to make everything work for good. You cant Just take parts of an engine and and chuck them into a bonnet of a car and expect it to work. Each part has to go together in the right way for it to work.

This is the same as things we want, and to make things work that we ask for means other things have to be in the right place too. But God is always working to put all the parts in the right place.

 

Perfect Peace by Laura Story

Toy Train

Last night I got into watching ''STORAGE HUNTERS''. Basically it these two guys that go round and bid for storage units. Some times its Just a pile of junk but most of the time there is something in the unit that will make them a profit.

Last night they came across an almost empty unit and most of the people looked at the unit and walked away. But this one guy decided to buy the unit for $1.

When they got into the unit they found nothing but an old plastic Christmas tree in a box. But this guy was not giving up. He stuck his hand deep into the box to see if his luck was in.

What he found was an old toy train, about 100 years old, made of tin. It would have been part of the Christmas decorations and would have ran around the base of the tree. He also found it worked too.

Later they sold the tree and lights for $50 and the train fetched $325 leaving a profit of $374.

Now that guy found something good in a storage unit full of junk and when everyone else had walked away he had faith in the almost empty unit.

God see good in us and although our lives may seem empty and future dull, he will always find a way of making things work out better than you think.

Choices

We all have the ability to make decisions. Some better than others, but even from an early age we have decisions to make.The Fact is we sometimes make wrong choices that we look back and kick ourselves wishing we had seen what we see after the event.

I'm no different and recently I made a choice that I wish I could change. I did it thinking I was doing it for all the right reasons but looking back it now looks like I may have made a terrible error.

I have over past months been trying to make decisions with God. Asking him for direction and praying that these choices are correct. I shouldn't, but I'm now starting to doubt if I did the right thing.

Things we choose to do, or not to do have an impact on our future. Becoming a christian was the best thing I ever did but it doesn't mean I'm without my troubles. And some choices I have made as a christian have been fantastic but some have back fired. 

I may have chosen to oversee Gods best and maybe my best as I try and walk towards my own goals. I guess I can only hope God brings the best back to me. 

It all comes back to faith. I need to find that stronger faith again as without it a christian cant be at his best and doubt starts to creep in

I really hope that God brings back the best as looking back I can see a bright future and one with God alongside. I also hope that others will see gods best in me.

There once was this bloke

There once was this bloke that grow up in a christian family and believing in god was just something he did. He had no reason to not believe in God.


He would go along to church with his family every week and again this was just normal thing to do on a Sunday.

in his teens he rebelled at little (like many do) and didn't really have any reason to ask to many questions about god as just knowing he was ''around'' was enough.why would he need to think to hard about it, after all if God was there then why worry about it.

As he grow older and life chucked a few more things his way he would some how find the ability to turn to god or turn away from god. A big event in his life came when his mum died and seeing her faith come through in that situation got him thinking more about God and how he works.

Still he continued with life with a care free attitude and hard two sons that he thanked god for and identified the importance of teaching them about God too..

It was when this guy hit a low point in his life and marriage started to break down that he found himself seeking God more than ever. I guess you could say that his belief in god hadn't changed but the situation made God seem more important.

See belief in God (where he is just there in the background) and having a relationship with god (where you talk to him and read things in the bible about him) become 2 totally different things. What this guy found was that it just became more real.

At this point, in the darkest time of this chaps life he found himself asking God to ''sort him out'' and it was then that God pretty much kicked he up the back side.

Life change instantly for this guy. Not in the way he wanted or in the way you imagine but in the way this guy looked at the world and how he looked at others and different situations. Don't get me wrong there was know real change in his situation, but the change was in him.

I guess you could say he was on a very long and winding road that was up hill all the way. And all the way along there where still mistakes to make and hard times to cross.

I know this guy well and even recently he has blown out a candle that God had lite for him to help him build a and see future and is now trying to lite it again.

What this guy is starting to learn is he has to make decisions and sometimes will make bad choices even when god shoves them in his face I guess he still struggles.

Of course finding God standing beside you in those hard times may seem crazy to some but surly it stands to reason and to me it is God showing he is there.

You may think this story is just a crazy made up to just try and prove a point. You may think its one of those stupid story's made up by some religious nutter to try and convince others that god is real.

Well let me tell you this guy is in know way a change man. and there is no amazing ending to this story. What I can tell you is that this guy still struggles and still takes the wrong turns, but he know totally believes God is trying to do great things in his life even if he doesn't see it at the right time.