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Today went by in seconds,i had a challenging day at work, afterwards found myself speeding down the 101 trying to get to chapperel in a matter of 15minutes for some paperwork i had to get taken care off over at t&gacademy. Thru-out my day, during the hectic times, i kept in my mind the promise i had made in the morning, that no matter what it takes im going to have a great day, and keep Christ with me thru it, keeping my fast going, and not loosing my cool. I always wonder about the certain people that are involved in your life, wether it be work wise, or socially, there is a reason that person is in your life, regardless if its only a months time, or a years time. I have come to realize to not taken advantage of it, and appreaciating the diversity of people that come into your life, with different beliefs and morals. My conviction in my heart is to be a great witness, and to share the Love that was given to me. Not relying on Religion, but on Christ alone, Religion is on its way down the well, the majority of society already has a rotten view on ego minded "christians" who have no love in their hearts, but are following rules and guidelines, that are burning bridges, and not rebuilding. I am currently reading a great book by C.S. Lewis, called The Screwtape Letters, the book is about the powers of evil working on a man, as C.S. Lewis protraits that we all have our demons to fight off, our temptations and faults. And that the spiritual world is a war on its own, what caught my eye in this book is on Chp. 7 Pg. 35, where they are speaking on the man's religious stage and how this is working for them.
"Once you have made the World an end, and faith a means, you have almost won your man, and it makes very little difference what kind of worldly end he is pursuing. Provided that meetings, pamphlets, policies, movements, causes, and crusades, matter more to him than prayers and sacraments and charity, he is ours----and the more "religious"(on those terms) the more securely ours. I could show you a cageful down here."
That paragraph caught my eye big time because its so true, all those people who claim they are so perfect, and they are so great because they are doing all these good works, and that God would love to have them on his team, that God would definately want them and owe them something. When in reality God is not looking for those kind of people, God is looking for people who are modest and humble, that will fall to the floor and say, "God, please have mercy on a wretched sinner like me !" , that crys to the Lord, and realizing that if God owes me anything its death. The wages of sin is death, and remembering that ooh, oh yeah .. i was that sinner, that Christ bore on the cross, that was publically humilated, beat like he should have died 10 times before getting to the cross, that was completely innocent. Realizing this, and obeying Him, passionately obeying him. You see, going to church once a week and doing the bare minimum is not going to grant your eternal salvation, its having a personal relationship with Christ that is.
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