500 Days

How does it even happen that I have let 500 days pass since I have posted a blog? The answer is simple, I have been lazy. I haven’t taken any time to just sit and write. This really has only hurt me. I enjoy writing. I’m not claiming to be a perfect writer, but I like to do it.  This morning in Sunday school the main idea was finding your platform to share the love of Christ.  I’m a talker, I have never ever met a stranger, but I don’t know my bible well. So I lack the confidence to carry on an intelligent biblical conversation. When I write these blogs I typically have my bible (or my iPad these days) to my right, and my laptop in front of me. This one is no exception. While our Sunday school lesson was about the platform, the sermon really hit my soul deep. Go with me to Revelations, (if you have read this before you know I am about to post the scripture/s that touched me) chapter 2 verse 4   states: Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. (KJV) Now in the past I have used the NIV bible. But I am really falling in love with the ole KJV. And in the verses leading up to this particular verse Jesus himself is writing a letter to the church of Ephesus and telling them basically what they had done right, then throws in this slap in the face, the huge BUT. Yea your doing GREAT, but you’re doing GREAT for the wrong reason. You have walked away from me. You are doing it to keep up an image. You’re doing it so people will be impressed. You’re doing it for the WRONG reasons, you walked away from me. Then verse 5 picks up and says: “Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works…”  I’m stopping there, because that’s what gets me. STOP faking it until you make it and start making it, turn away from sin and admit to your loving Father that you messed up, and HE will give you a chance to basically start over and do it for the right reason. I am in no way a scholar, I am a somewhat educated idiot.  But I am a human, I face problems every day. And every morning when I wake up I thank God for my mistakes, because they brought me where I am now. I thank Him for the trials in my life, because EVERY single time I hit a bump in the road, like right now. God always has something better for me than I ever could have imagined.

~Shelly