Friday, January 21, 2005
Half Empty...or half Full?
Wednesdays have been challenging me a lot in the past two weeks. The 12th...James talked about how we as Christians NEED rest to be the best we can be. We can't be expected to work our butts off 24/7 and still have the energy and the patience for things that God wants us to do. That truely made me think- because we live in a fast pace world. No doubting that and there's no need ot list all the things that have a fast pace requirement. Do I have a day where I'm COMPLETELY not doing anything? Including homework, shopping...etc? Not often enough.
Then there was just last wednesday...the 19th...It was interesting. James compared Christians to Diet Coke. (and that's not a complement for anyone)... And Jesus is water. And we as Christians try and try to get filled with Jesus...and Jesus "fills" us to the "brim"...and then all we have is watered down diet coke. Not the best combination. And we wonder why we're not filling filled. We're still thristing and yearning for the Lord...When we haven't completely emptied ourselves. It can't be all Jesus' work here. We have to do something as well...and that's emptiing ourselves so he can fill us with nice, cool water...
So is the glass half empty or half full? Oh that's right...it's empty.
Then there was just last wednesday...the 19th...It was interesting. James compared Christians to Diet Coke. (and that's not a complement for anyone)... And Jesus is water. And we as Christians try and try to get filled with Jesus...and Jesus "fills" us to the "brim"...and then all we have is watered down diet coke. Not the best combination. And we wonder why we're not filling filled. We're still thristing and yearning for the Lord...When we haven't completely emptied ourselves. It can't be all Jesus' work here. We have to do something as well...and that's emptiing ourselves so he can fill us with nice, cool water...
So is the glass half empty or half full? Oh that's right...it's empty.
