This is an interesting picture of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The statue is the highest point in the city, yet this is the only time that it has been documented that it was struck by lightning.
Opportunity knocks but once, so be ready to answer the door when it does. This may apply to events in life: job offers, chances to make new friends, mend old rifts etc...but
This picture made me think. In this life of once and done chances, Christ was the only true "Deal of a Lifetime". In dying for us, He offered us redemption. If we fully open the door to Him, He offers us the gift of living forever. Lightning may strike that statue again sometime. However, Christ died but once. In doing so, He asks only that we have faith and believe in Him. This gift's potential is limited only by how far it spreads. By how many believe. By those who are saved.
A lot of times I think soley in mortal terms. I get stressed about stuff that in the end, just doesn't matter.
In some places, I have been asked to put a date on when I was "saved". I could give you a general date of when I started taking my faith seriously, but when I was "saved" would be tough. If I had to put a number on it, it would go something like this: 2/13/2008, 2/12/2008, 2/11/2008, 2/10/2008, 2/09/2008, 2/08/2008, 2/07/2008, 2/06/2008, 2/05/2008, 2/04/2008, 2/03/2008, 2/02/2008, 2/01/2008, 1/31/2008, 1/30/2008, 1/29/2008, 1/28/2008, 1/27/2008, 1/26/2008, 1/25/2008....I could go on, but you get the idea. I feel like I am saved everyday.
I could never possibly match the awesomeness of His gift. So I do the only thing that I can.
I have long made it the mission of my life:
To never stop giving or helping. To never stop telling. To never stop believing.
For Him. About Him. In Him.
I know that He will lead me to where I should be, not where I want to be. Because as hard as it is to remember sometimes, what I want, really, just isn't important.
Many are the plans in a man's heart,
but it is the LORD's purpose that prevails.
Proverbs 19:21
3 comments:
i love the dates of your conversion. it's so true and we need to remember our new life in christ (though already begun) is still in process.
good stuff.
Mike...this is one of the Scripture verses that I literally tattooed on my heart in college... I love it!!!
it's funny... I lately have been saying "I trust you God, I trust you god" But still want to know why things keep turning out the way they do and a part of me is still trying to keep control... (With everything but specifically with my business)
Yesterday when I was praying I realized that I have to open up my mind to the possibility that God may not want me to use my gifts for the same thing I want to use them for.
I really need to be listening, this verse is exactly what God laid on my heart very recently.
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