Ask yourself

Ask yourself this:

Is there anything in your life right now that may be a hindrance with your relationship with Christ?

Are you trusting God that He will take care of your needs and desires?

Are you doing anything to help build His kingdom?

When you pray, do you ask God for what He can do for you, or do you sometimes ask what you can do for Him?

Do you go out and try to find your happiness in people, or do you seek God for true happiness?

Do you spend most of your extra time in worldly things(TV, Internet, games, phone, etc) or do you spend your time building the kingdom of God, whether that be reading the Bible, reading books, helping others, etc?




Whatever your answers may be to any of these questions, I hope you stepped back and really thought about them.  They wernt to make you feel bad, but I know with myself, I have to re-examine my priorities often.

We are born selfish sinful people.  We want satisfaction for ourselves and most of the time we want it right then and there.  When we don't get something that we want or we have to wait we usually get mad or throw a fit. 

I can honestly say, when you spend most of your time learning about God and focused on Him, your eyes are opened up to a bigger picture.  When most people live of the world who are Christians and who arnt Christians, they only get temporary happiness. 

"Of course this guy seems great, keeps me occupied, sends me sweet notes, gives me attention and sends me Good morning beautiful texts every morning."

"Well this girl likes to cuddle and hold my hand and go out with me and makes me feel like I'm worth something."

 "Of course I love to play games on my phone and read on my social media sites throughout the day so I don't get bored."

"But I like to come home after work and do nothing because I worked all day."

 "Well Sunday is hard for me to get up and go to church cause its the one day that I can do nothing and get some things done."

"There is no way that I can stop drinking sodas and eat right, I don't have it in me, I have no desire and I'm too fat to work out, I have a bad ankle."

"I just don't have any money left over after paying bills and groceries to tithe 10%."


Why don't we push ourselves?  Why do we settle with people and things?  Why do we rot our brains with things that arnt going to build Gods kingdom?  Why are we lazy?  Why do we make excuses and not have faith that God will provide for us?

Ill tell you why, because ITS EASY!!!  I'm so thankful that Jesus didn't live an "easy" life.  The night before He died FOR ME, He sweat blood because He knew what was about to take place.  Yet, why do we not trust Him with paying bills or that He would provide when its time to give back the 10% He asked for?  Why don't we trust Him that He will heal our ankle or put the desire in us to get up off the couch and eat right and work out? Why do we go and seek for the person we want to marry and not trust God enough that He will bring our mate to us?

WHY CANT WE JUST DO OUR BEST TO PLEASE GOD AND ALLOW HIM TO POUR HIS BLESSINGS ON US?

I know with me personally, I want Gods best with anything.  I want His best with my everyday walk, I want His best in my mate, I want His best in my health and I want His best in my house, friends, family.  Does that mean I'm going to have the most expensive, shiniest, richest things?  NO!  But what God gives me and allows me to have and do, is His best!  One thing though that we tend to forget sometimes is that God is waiting on us to take that first step. 

God is not going to melt our fat away sitting on a couch eating chips or ice cream.  God is not going to give our best in a mate if every week we are going out on a date from someone we met offline.  God is not going to give our best if we don't help others.  God is not going to give our best if we cant even give Him the 10% He asked for.  God is not going to give our best if we don't sit down and spend some time with Him, whether it be in the Bible, church, fellowship or helping others or all the above. 

God gives us a choice and He gives us free will.  Everything listed above, I'm totally guilty of.  I don't want to sound like I'm Miss Perfect, but I wanted to share with things that I hear quite often when people want more, but yet have excuses.

Can you imagine if you asked God for something and He gave you an excuse?  Or how about if you cant forgive someone and you did something wrong and asked God for forgiveness and He wouldn't forgive you?  Let me just say, that happens!  Scripture says, if you are unwilling or unable to forgive then God wont forgive you. 

Ive had so many people in my life, hurt me, do me wrong, walk away, yet people wonder why I still have some of them in my life.  To be honest, one thing I think about the most is.....I have done God wrong everyday of my life and yet He is still there for me, comforting me, talking to me, protecting me and providing for me.  What if I'm the only light people see?  What if I'm the only person that they will ever do something so wrong too and yet I'm nice and there for them?  Didn't I just show love, grace and mercy like God?  Arnt we supposed to strive to be Christ like, to be like Jesus?  God knows everything that goes on, but I don't carry a burden on my heart with what someone did for me.  I remember it and I watch out for myself and I admit sometimes the pain might come back and hurt, but I keep moving forward and keep showing love and mercy.

I have talked to some people who arnt married and have sexual relationships.  They wonder why they have the problems they do or they don't understand why its so difficult.  Let me ask, why would God make that easy for them?  Why would He bless them, esp with what they are doing if its going against Him?  We have a choice and I'm not saying to make the right choice is always easy, because its not, but scripture promises that God will always give you a way out of temptation, its up to us to take that door.

I wanted this blog post to be about us stepping back and looking at our lives and whats in it.  Everyone has a different walk, different issues, different struggles, different weaknesses and problems we are trying to work on.  With each and every struggle we may have, whether be sexual sin, not forgiving someone, being lazy, financial issues, not trusting God for a mate or whatever, it can all be overcome with God and in His time and His will and with His help.  Its so simple, yet we make it more complicated than it is, and I know a major part of the problem is because we give up "control", or the control we think we have.  Its so much easier to trust God and allow Him to work and allow Him to take care of our needs and desires, because that's what He wants.  He wants to give us everything our heart desires, because He most likely put it there.

 Just remember my beautiful friends, its not in our time, its in Gods time, but the wait can be sweet if we keep striving to obey and please Him!