Millenial Faith

Your 2014 Mission

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It’s now January 2014, great.

The only thing that has actually changed is the year, day, and month. For the most of us are resolutions are only a week away from abandonment and back to business as usual.

But, what if this year could be really different? I mean really? An absolute, without question, all out goal-crushing year. Wouldn’t that be nice?

Where to begin?

Because change starts with the renewing of our minds, which in turn, effect or actions and then our output, we must start from the inside out.

I propose a challenge, a mission with a predictable outcome. This year give Christ a shot. Give Him a shot at your goals, desires, wants, and your heart. What do you have to loose?  Worrying about everything in 2013 did not change one thing. This route is bound to take you on a journey of your likening.

We will start slow. Throw out the five-page list of New Year resolutions and decide to give the plans and the wheel to Him.

A Prayer:

Lord, you brought me out of 2013 and into 2014. I am grateful because so many people did not make it to see this day.  Thank you. In the New Year, I ask that you save me from myself. I have done things my way and, well, you know the rest. I want to try you. I give my life, my wants, and my desires over to you. You are a far better Captain than I could ever be. Plus, it helps that You made me so you understand my fears, shame, and regret. It’s all Yours now. Thank you in advance for making my 2014 a year to remember. In Jesus name, Amen.  

@earlinagreen

Making The Choice

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In this day, I will choose gratefulness, happiness, and fulfillment.

Something unusual happens when you just decide what the day will bring. You make a choice what you will think about, who you will think about and how you will carry the day. You make a choice about how you will respond to situations, people and unfortunate events the day may bring. You decide because you know that even though you cannot control the actions of others, you can control how you respond. 

For the next twelve hours I will be exposed to the day’s demands. It is now that I must make a choice. Because of Calvary, I’m free to choose. And so I choose.

I Choose Love
No occasion justifies hatred,
no injustice warrants bitterness. I choose love.
Today I will love God and what God loves
 
I Choose Peace
I will live forgiven. I will forgive so that I may live.
 
I Choose Kindness
I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone.
Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind,
for such is how God treated me.
 
I Choose Faithfulness
Today I will keep my promises.
My debtors will not regret their trust. My associates will not question my word.
My wife will not question my love.
And my children will never fear that their father will not come home.

Pieces taken from Max Lucado’s, Grace

What will you choose in this day?

I make the choice each morning so my environment, emotions, and the people around me don’t make it for me.

Have an amazing 2014!

@earlinagreen 

Addressing The Monster

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When the things that we love the most conquer us, a loving God is there to remind us that this world was never meant to be our home.

‘Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.’ (Romans 12:2)

We as individuals, who were given free will are to remember not to place the creation higher than the creator.

He created everything. And when used for good, in a manner of right perspective the ‘things’ better our lives. Love, objects, money, our families were all created by a God who loves us enough to fulfill our every need.

When we forget the order of the God-relationship, we experience mental havoc, a complete breakdown of the human psyche. We become dependent, dependent on the acceptance and the opinions of others, dependent on things and our collection of possessions to define us, dependent on the need to belong. Dependent on the urge, the gravitational pull to love someone, something. We begin to mirror the culture instead of change it.

It is in the mist of these muddy waters that He calls out in a quiet voice, the tone of a gentleman. Wooing us back to him. Time marches forward and He reveals that He, unlike us is unchanging. He created us and intimately understands our every want.

He wants us to have Him first, the other stuff is easy, a snap of His fingers, a blink, a gift.

@earlinagreen

C.S. Lewis: A Beautiful Mind

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I will never forget when I first learned of C.S. Lewis. He began his life as an atheist and it was the truth of the Gospel that brought him to Christ. That same truth screams to be heard, to be discovered in a society where most things are not what they seem.

Below is an excerpt from one of his best works and my favorite, Mere Christianity.

There is so much of Him that millions and millions of ‘little Christs’, all different, we still be too few to express Him fully. He made them all. He invented–as an author invents characters in a novel–all the different men that you and I were INTENDED to be. In that sense our real selves are all waiting for us in Him.
The more I try to resist Him and try to live on my own, the more I become DOMINATED by my own heredity and upbringing and surroundings and natural desires.
In fact what I proudly call ‘Myself’ becomes MERELY the meeting place for trains of events which I never started and which I cannot stop. What I call ‘My wishes’ becomes merely the desires thrown up by other men’s thoughts or even suggested to me.
PROPAGANDA will be the real origin of what I regard as my own personal political ideas. I am not, in my natural state, nearly so much of a person as I like to believe: most of what I call ‘me’ can be EASILY explained. It is when I turn to Christ, when I GIVE myself up to His Personality that I first begin to have a REAL personality of my own.

C.S Lewis, Mere Christianity