FW: Round and round

It's 6:10 and I am on the platform at 34th street waiting for the train to come and I've been thinking about what to write for this week. The phrase or rather yet question that keeps coming to my mind is.... Does you life revolve around God or does God revolve around your life?
You answer to this question can explain many of the things that might be happening in your life.

What do I mean by that.... Simply that your answer to this question will reflect your true relationship with God. The bible says it best in Seek first the kingdom of God and everything else will be added. Some times we get this verse twisted literary. Sometimes we tend to seek the world and the things that the world offers (some are not necessarily bad on their own like jobs, relationships, studies) and then think that God would be added unto that. I think that part of the blame for that is that we have grown so accustome to instant gratification. We have gotten so use to information, music, food and whatever else we desire being so accessible and getting so fast that we forget that little phrase "not my will but yours be done"... In others words is not in my time but in Gods time. We like God to step in and add to our lives in the good times but turn around and blame him in the bad times.
If God revolves around you life then that means the you are so pre-occupied with everything in your life that your basically saying...'God I have all of this to do, but if you find an empty spot the you can go ahead and take it.' But if the opposite is true ans you life revolvs arond God the He is the center of everything that you do. He is the focal point of your life. He is privy to everything that is going on in your life. If you seek him first and make him the center of your life then He will be able to not only be a part of all you life but be able to add on to your life in a great and powerful way.
So think about it.. Who revolves around who?

Be blessed.

I can't get no satisfaction.

I write this as i am standing on the 2 train at 6pm heading home. I just found this great little application that can upload my messages straight to the blog. So my phone will see a lot more action. Lately I have been plague with thoughts of not investing my time wisely. I feel like i have not been as productive with my time especially with the advance in technology. I feel like I could do more to stay in touch and to connect more. I guess this is my step to do so. This leads to the theme of this weeks' message.

How many of us have experience total satisfaction? I guess most if not all of us have been there. Every time you finish a project and it's well done you experience satisfaction. Some sit or stand back and inspect their work and this smile of contentment and satisfaction creeps up. In the immortal words of the rolling stones and Paul I sing... 'I can't get no… satisfaction'



Wait Paul? Yes Paul. If we read in Phil. 3:13-14 he says.. Brothers I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead. I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
If any one could have sat back and contemplate the work He had done and how far he had travel and the goals he had achieved it was Paul. None the less he is clear here when he states that he has not yet finished his work, he has not yet attained what God has for him. Most importantly He has not receive the prize God has for him and while he has not gotten there he has resolved the move forward, to strain ahead and to press on not satisfied until he reaches his goal and attains the prize that God has for him.

In you spiritual life, have you reach the goal God has put forth? Have you attain the prize from God yet? In you ministry work, are you sitting back contemplating the good job you have done? Are you satisfied? Satisfaction comes not just from the completion of something we started. Satisfaction comes from knowing that you gave it your all, that you left a piece of yourself behind, that you achieved what you set out to do and the you attained the final prize with hard work, dedication, commitment and a lot of prayer. I encourage you to continue to press on, to strain forward to attain the goals God has for you and to never be satisfied until God himself tells you to stop.