God's Intended Path We Continually Miss Every Day!

This day has brought a hope of many possibilities to maybe happen to me. None of which have happened yet, but if I am patient enough they
might. God gave me a passion for life that I can do all things through him, that is great!

But what are "the all things through him" that I am to do? That's a hard question to answer. We are reared as children to go to school and do well. To act right in certain places and around certain people. It's like a system of prison rules,sometimes! If you really think about it we have been ruled and raised by societies rules. Not really Gods intended path for us. Yes, God wants us to be kind and well behaved people, but not people who feel we should be judged by people of this society by the way we act.  We're all going to act badly sometimes, but for somebody to look down on anybody because of certain mistakes is just not right. 

It's amazing to me that Jesus never went to college to be a biblical scholar, but if you don't have that piece of paper in your Hands that gives you credit for proof of being a biblical scholar then nobody is really going to listen to you. That's not Gods intended path!

I believe we have a different idea of the phrase "intended path" than what God had intended! My life and ideas have drastically changed over the past few years. I have been trying to find the real meaning of Gods story, and  I think I have found it. I don't want to be a Pharisee any more. I don't want to miss out on the big picture that God has been holding up for many years now. Many men have missed it. Opportunities have been missed because we put to much red tape into it. To much red tape in front of just giving a cup of water to a homeless person. We judge to much over the most simplest tasks.

As I got in my truck tonight after work I saw an opportunity missed, but I saw who God wanted me to serve. Those hopes of opportunities left me as I watched a young kid push his crippled mother across the parking lot! They looked like they needed something I just didn't know what it was though. It was something that God had intended for his path to righteousness. I got it real quick! 

As we get ready to elect some new officials in the next 30 some days, we are all getting up tight about it.  We waste so much time on who's right and who's wrong in the realm of politics.  I think it is completely worthless and many would disagree with me on that.  I used to get into politics and would rant and rave about who's  screwing up things in Washington and why people would elect them.  As life went on and people were elected I just lost all intrest in all the trash talking and how nothing will ever be resolved to any problems in the world through government. 

Now life in Christ is more imporatant to me now and this worlds view of life  is pointless.  I want to be in heaven one day and see the intended world God has planned for us all.  I've seen some people lately that God has intended for his realm of holiness.  He has set before me people who need help more than those of us who have all the things we need.  All three people I have seen at work for some reason, one guy was mentally challenged and had no ability to do anything for himself, he is here for a reason.  That reason was to show people like you and I that God wants us to help people like him. The kingdom is his! 

As I walked out the door of work I was walking behind a lady who was severely crippled yet walking.  The way she walked just put pain in my legs by thinking about how it would feel to walk like that.  I thought how hard life has been for this lady.  Not only by having to walk like she does, but the remarks many have made toward her growing up and those who continue to laugh at her right now.  The kingdom is hers!     

There is a time for everything, and now is the time to live by faith and start rescuing those who are considered to be weak by the worlds standards.  The world takes those who are crippled, homeless, mentally challenged and diseased and puts them into their own category in life.  "Just stay back and the strong will make the world move, but we don't need you here on the field just stay on the sidelines and watch."  The sidelines are a place for the forgotten and nobody really cares or thinks about them there.  It's our shame to be like that.  For the kingdom is theirs! 

Will it be ours or are we to busy here to make a life for ourselves?  A life we will lose one day and never see again.  It's time we take the worlds BS out of our lives and go to the sidelines and make it the place to be.  This is a lesson for me and all who want to share the kingdom of God with those mentioned above.  The meaning of life is not to prosper ourselves, but to help those who can't, to prosper!

What Did God Say To Us Before We Were Born????

He said go and live upon the Earth and enjoy your life with two people called your parents.  You will be called human and you will walk about the Earth and roam and live amongst other humans.  I will be with you always and please don't forget that. 

There will be things you will see that will remind you of me.  Things will make sense over time during your life and you will have days where you will forget where you came from.  You will have others trying to keep you there and telling you are there forever.  Humans will teach the good things about me, but others will teach you of another.  I will lavish great gifts upon you and you will live as if I haven't given you anything.  Many will try to give you their knowledge and tell you I don't exist, but their teaching is in vain.  I am here and I am real!

Your goals in life will be pressed by the standards of that world but my teaching will always be in your heart for I have written my instructions there.  When trouble faces you look inside yourself and you will find all the answers I have given you.  I have blessed you and that is all you will ever need.  Live there for a time and believe in me and my son your brother and I will come back and bring you here your eternal home.  Go child, go be born into time.  Bless you my child and don't forget me! - Clint Singer

The Homeless Need Us Now!

The Homeless, it's a topic that has been on my mind for a good while.  I've always had this fear of them, not really a fear of them hurting me but a fear how to approach someone who is homeless.  A lot of times we hear people say of them that they are lazy and don't deserve anything from us, but they do. 

There is a verse in the Bible that states,
" If a man doesn't work he shall not eat!"  Which is true if a person is lazy and just wants to pan handle off people all day long.  I have come to learn the difference between a lazy person and someone who really needs help.  I read a couple of books over the past year that have really opened my eyes to why people are homeless.  These two books were written by a homeless guy and a rich white man.  They are titled "What difference do it make and Same kind of difference as me."  Two great books that I think everybody should read. 

A lot of homeless people are from an underdog status, they can't help the way they turned out.  Some are mentally ill or were brought up by bad parents or were raised in poverty and never found their way out of that upbringing.  I remember as a kid walking to Pittsburgh Pirate games there would be a line of homeless people there asking for handouts.  It was sad and I remember many just walking by and giving nothing and then I remember seeing others doing the right thing and giving something to them.  How many angels did we Pirate fans pass by that night?

I think we should all come out of our bubble and see what opportunities we are missing by serving God and helping these people out. Not just by giving money but actually coming out of our comfort zones and talking to these people one on one. 

I remember last year (and I am not bragging but it is a good story to tell) we were coming off a ramp in Little Rock and we saw a woman holding up a sign. I told my wife we need to do something, so we went to the closest restaurant we could find and bought a meal for that girl. By the time we got back she was gone.  I looked up and saw her sitting in a parking lot and when we pulled up there were 6 others just like her sitting there also.  We pulled up and I gave her the food and I just felt bad because we didn't see the others there. But one of them said, "thank you and God bless you." It brought tears to my eyes and I told them I would pray for them all. 

It changed my day, I didn't think they were skanky people or they were people who were lazy. I thought they were good people that Jesus planted there for us to do his goodwill for the day.  But I wish I could have given more, I wish I could have solved all their problems. I couldn't! 

 I pray for all those who are homeless but that is not enough.  I must come out of my bubble of comfort and go to them. If you ever need any inspiration in wanting to help those in need read these two books I mentioned above or read a book titled "Finding Calcutta" it's about the ministry of Mother Teresa.

It's time we serve and give back to God what He has lavished on us. I am writing this also to myself, I am not one to come out of my bubble of comfort. Living in the town I do there are no homeless people right in front of you, so it's hard to know where to start and who to help. I believe if we pray for God  to lead us to someone in need he will show us and send us. May God bless us in our giving!

B.C.

This Little LIght Of Mine.

Light, it is an amazing thing to me.  Darkness is the absence of light without it we would not see a thing. Without the sun we would be a sphere of complete darkness, our own planet relies so much on the light of the sun.  Without it's light we would not be able to survive.  There are so many comparisons to light in the Bible describing Christianity.  One comparison is a verse stating that we would not light a candle and put a shade over it to cover its light. Then the whole room would not be lit. We want the whole room to have the light.

The same goes for us, we are the light of Christ, we don't want to hide our example of him.  Yet we often do.  All of us smolder our light, we don't completely snuff it out but we hide our light in certain places and in front of certain people. What if we showed our light to everyone? What if we showed our Christian light to others in a different way?  Many in our world hate us who are in Christ, as we have seen in such tragedies as 9/11.  Some of us Christians don't really know how to shine our light in the right way.  Some have over the years have been a fierce hypocritical light.  We look down on others because they aren't doing the right things and we gloat by thinking we're perfect and they don't deserve the love of Christ.  Others have given the light of Christ a bad name and have snuffed out the lights of many unbelievers by being a bad example and not the right one. 

I see the light of Jesus being a gentle light like this candle in this picture.  I'm not saying that Christ was by no means  always gentle. He was stern in his teaching, especially when it came to the Pharisees and their blindness.   But he was a gentle light when it came to helping the sick, the crippled and the lost.  He wanted those who the world didn't give a chance  to have a chance.  He wanted their wick to be lit and held out so their light could shine also.

We are all lights for Christ, some are waiting for us to help them light their candle of passion for Christ.  We must keep our fire burning so others may see how good a life in Christ can be and how great the reward at the end of life will be.  If your candle has been covered it's time to uncover it and show the light of Christianity.  It's time we show others how good the light is and that all may share in that light.  Our light is to be a kind, loving, merciful and a compassionate light.  Just because my light is burning doesn't mean I don't have troubles keeping it lit.  Satan is the wind that will always try to blow the candle out, but God is always there lighting the match for it to burn again. Each time it blows out it's lit by Holy hands and the light just keeps getting brighter and brighter.

LIfe Is Short!

It's amazing how life can be taken so quickly.  My fellow co-workers this morning are mourning the loss of great man.  He had an accident at work last night by falling off a ladder.  He was a very kind man and was always saying hi to me and asking how I was doing. I always returned the favor in asking him the same thing. So sad, but yet I rejoice because he is where we all want to be right now, in the loving hands of God.

As Christians we must live by faith, that means making decisions of risk by living by that faith.  There is a song that states, "live like you were dying!"  Which really means live it up, give it up and be kind and loving to others. Be Christ like and if you have to make a risky decision take the leap of faith and do it.

Every day we should tell others that we love them, because we just don't know when God is going to take us home.  We're not immortal here but mortal, every second of the day could be our last.  We just don't know when our last breath will be.

To those who don't believe in a higher being, I say you better start and challenge Satan every day that he tells you there is not a creator. There is a God above, how can anybody not believe that.  Just take one look out your door and see God in his best through his creation.  That is when I decided to say in my heart for Christ to take over and lead me to a higher power.  One question you have to answer, "Do you believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God?" That's it and then be baptized into him, that's it just believe and you will be saved. Of course God wants you do your best to live a good life and not give into earthly desires. But just believing in him will save you.  Do it and do it now, for your souls sake! May God bless us all!

Memories Of The Past

I often wonder if in heaven if we will be allowed to relive the great moments in our past life.  If we do I want the memories of this farm to be one of many.  This is a picture of  my Aunt & Uncles house and farm that my cousin sent to me.  Aunt Hazel and Uncle Carl were the best people I ever knew. They knew how to make a holiday special when all the family arrived. 

Fond memories these are of mine, and I will always cherish.  The things I remember of them and their farm house is the best homemade bread anyone has ever made.  It was the best!  I remember my Papaw and Uncle Carl sitting in lawn chairs under the apple trees talking about anything for hours. Papaw would be smoking his pipe and Uncle Carl would be chewing I believe  Beech Nut chew. 

I remember us cousins playing in their huge yard and going and watching the chickens and the other animals do their thing. I remember my cousin Drew and I playing on their natural gas tank. For some reason we were always drawn to that thing.  Our many trips to their pond to fish was also something special, my sister one time caught a huge snapping turtle there.  I remember seeing a cow patty for the first time and how horrible the smell was, it would become a favorite smell in later years.  I remember the bon fires we would build there and the roasting and burning of hot dogs and marshmallows.  The few times we spent the night we would sleep on the front screened in porch and just listen to the bugs and the outside noises.  WOW, I miss those days!

I am very blessed by God to be born in to this family of mine.  I often think about this farm and how beautiful it really was, it was almost something out of a storybook.  It seems to captivate my mind all the time, I wish there was a way to go back to these times and capture all the moments I saw.  If only!

God is going to have a huge surprise for us on the day he comes back to take us all home, great things we can't even imagine.  How awesome it is to have such a hope. To know if  I finish the race in this life believing and being faithful to God and his son, I will be blessed in this great hope forever, and maybe I will be able to fish in that pond one more time.. Thank you Lord !

Why Bad Things Happen?

This time of year is probably the most exciting time of year. I really don't like summer anymore because of where I live. Arkansas is just to dang hot to be able to enjoy the summer.  Our attention turns right now to college football and the fall festivities.  We get excited for what the future might bring us this time of year. We look far into the future for our lives to be completely normal, we hope that our lives will be better but we never really see what bad could happen.

I'm the same way, I really feel eternal here sometimes, that nothing bad is going to happen to me.  But how foolish are we to think that we are invincible, that nothing will happen to us.  I sometimes call it strong faith, that I feel God will not bring anything bad to happen to me.  I am dead wrong on that kind of thinking.  God doesn't bring bad things on people Satan does.  He is the one trying to defeat us and God at the same time.  Faith is a word to me that has a lot of different meanings. 

It can mean that we simply believe in what has been done already in God's story that we believe his son was killed on a cross or that we believe in God as the creator.  Faith can really mean also that whatever bad happens to us that we have a belief that God will be behind us no matter what. Life can bring many awful things to all of us.  "Uncertain living" is what we are living here on Earth, we have no idea what the day will bring, hopefully though through our Faith we can have a comfort or a feeling of security.

I think of the story of Job, his life was great and that normal day of life became tragic to him and his family. He lost everything, his health went downhill really fast.  Job had no idea things like this would go on, but Job's faith was strong and he believed in God and Satan lost. Faith is our main tool to fight off the bad things of life, it's our spiritual immune system.  If our faith is weak then we shall fail, if our faith is strong we will stand fast no matter what life throws at us. 

Testing. It's what Satan likes to do.  He advertises his ways as great and hopeful, but destruction is his game plan.  He doesn't like anything that has to do with God and his son Jesus.  He tempts more and more everyday yet every time he fails and he is reminded of his loss.  If there was ever someone to be born  a loser it's Satan, a natural born failure.     

When the question is asked about why bad things happen to good people. The answer is that bad things happen to everyone, it is Satan challenging us and those around us and it is God watching us win by our strong faith in him.  When we struggle and life battles us through and through, if we can stand up and laugh and say to Satan I still believe on God.  He will run and find someone else to weaken and destroy.  Life is not here but in another place. Our place here is temporary like a footprint in the sand, eventually the tide will erase it.  Our home is in heaven to be eternally loved and protected from Satan.  What a day that will be.