Ok listen up, this is something that has been on my heart lately and I just HAVE to blog about it. Let's start with the beginning, I am NOT in the very least talented. I don't do sports, I can't sing, I can't draw to save my life, I'm a semi ok dancer, don't even get me started on writing (and this doesn't count, this is just mindless ranting), I am just naturally not good at anything. You know how there's people that are just naturally awesome at everything? Or those people that are really good with one thing in specific?? Like swimming, or singing, or whatever. Ok well I am not one of those people. I was thinking this week how useless I am, I mean compared to the great friends around me I am just dust, honestly. I kind of analyze all the things that my closest friends are good at and man they are so useful!! I can so see how God is using their abilities to take them to far places. See guys, these kids that I hang our with, they are really great and talented kids, whether its music or sports or theater they are just naturally good. So I wondered, what about me? Why am I so useless and talentless??
Then I discovered that there is one thing I'm good at and ts the only thing that I care about being good at.
Being a christian.
WHAAAAAAAT?! Mind blown!! Ok allow me to explain. Look, I am completely useless in the terms that this world defines as useless, but I am extremely useful if we use heavenly terms. Being a christian is the only thing I'm really good at and it's the only thing I care about excelling in. I will make sure that no one worships better than me, no one loves God more than me, no one reads and follows scripture more than me. Now I know this probably can't happen because I'm not perfect but the good thing is that I am useless and in my uselessness I am useful to God to show the world that his love is more important than anything else. That a life with Christ is worth more than any great thing you can imagine. And just because it can't happen doesn't mean that I won't try! I will try because my love for God tells me that I need to try. Yes I do have a talent! My talent is being a christian, it is God given and it is by grace. To this world I am useless because I don't do all the "amazing" things that other kids can do but to heaven I am useful because I can express my love for Christ by understanding and accepting that my uselessness is not bad :) I rejoice in the fact that I can't do anything right because it reminds me that I don't belong in this world, that my soul belongs in heaven and will get there someday.
Ok but what about you really talented people? Does my little rant mean that you are not useful? Not at all!! You excel in either one thing or in everything you do but there is one little thing in which you will be useless or you will fail and even then you are useful to God somehow, it is for him to decide how he will use you.
If you are non believer then I am praying for you but this applies to you too, you may feel like you are completely useless and have no talents, well guess what? YOU'RE WRONG!! Because whether or not you like it or you see it God is using you. God uses non believers to show me that I am not done, that my work here is not done, so there you go, in your uselessness you are useful :)
I am a useless human with a faithful heart and a spiritually talented christian.
Don't ever think that being useless is a bad thing, if you ever feel useless remember that even king David felt useless at one point. You do have a talent, it takes a while to find it but you have one. Search for it, don't sit there and wait for it to magically show up, search your heart!! My dear, you have no idea what you are capable of.
Monday, June 18, 2012
Friday, June 15, 2012
Greg and Alexis
Ok I have to dedicate a blog post to two inspiring guys that I met a little while ago.
About a month ago I was over at my friend's house and I was taking the bust back home. I noticed a homeless man at my stop. He was getting ready to go into traffic because there was a red light (he was trying to collect change from drivers), I was looking at him and he looked at me and I smiled, he smiled back and started walking, as he was walking I said "God bless you!" and he kept smiling. A woman at the bus stop started talking to me about being kind and the importance of kindness and it was nice. The man came back and started conversation with me, he told me his name was Greg and then he asked me if I went to church, where did I go to church, if I had a strong faith, questions like those. We had a wonderful conversation about God. He told me he lived on a tent in the park, he showered every 2 days by the park right across the street and he got food from the church that he goes to. I had a wonderful time talking to him but my favorite part of the conversation was when he turned to me with tears in his eyes and said "this world is nothing! Do you know why we have to suffer? It is because Christ suffered for us on that cross." Holy cow that spoke to me SO MUCH!!! This man who has nothing compared to me was telling me that his sufferings are nothing compared to what Christ suffered, do you know how inspiring that is? (If you have no idea how much Christ suffered on the cross than I suggest you find a bible and read how they describe it in the gospels, that or watch The Passion of the Christ, believer or non-believer I assure you, you will cry.) He told me several times to not conform to the world, this world is nothing compared to life with God, IT WAS AMAZING!!!!! A middle aged homeless man cried in front of me and these were not tears of sadness, these were tears of gratitude. I cannot describe how I felt at that moment.
BUT!
That's not the only friend I made that day. So my bus came and went, whatever, I was doing more important things at the moment, getting home on time could wait. As I was talking to Greg, another friend of his came up to him, his name was Alexis, he was a little younger but also very faithful. We spoke some more about God and about his greatness and we talked about the bible and our favorite books in the bible. Here I was standing with two men who have less material things than me but their faith was amazing, they loved God so much!! That's exactly how I want to be, whether I live in a mansion or in a tent in a park, the one thing that can only change for the better is my love for Christ, my love for God!!
You think your life is hard? Really? My dear, try carrying a cross for miles and miles, try being beaten and humiliated for hours, try having your best friend deny you, try having your father turn his face from you because you are so filthy with sin, sin that you never committed. If the God of all had to suffer, who do you think you are not to? SUFFERING IS NOT BAD!! The testing of your faith develops perseverance and if you have no faith I believe that suffering brings faith.
I want you to listen to this song because it is amazing and it makes me think of Greg and Alexis, my homeless friends from whom I learned that no matter where I go in life, God is better than any blessing and any obstacle. Thank you Greg and Alexis, thank you for your unfailing faith. I wish the whole world could meet these guys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOOFAaUGfRE
About a month ago I was over at my friend's house and I was taking the bust back home. I noticed a homeless man at my stop. He was getting ready to go into traffic because there was a red light (he was trying to collect change from drivers), I was looking at him and he looked at me and I smiled, he smiled back and started walking, as he was walking I said "God bless you!" and he kept smiling. A woman at the bus stop started talking to me about being kind and the importance of kindness and it was nice. The man came back and started conversation with me, he told me his name was Greg and then he asked me if I went to church, where did I go to church, if I had a strong faith, questions like those. We had a wonderful conversation about God. He told me he lived on a tent in the park, he showered every 2 days by the park right across the street and he got food from the church that he goes to. I had a wonderful time talking to him but my favorite part of the conversation was when he turned to me with tears in his eyes and said "this world is nothing! Do you know why we have to suffer? It is because Christ suffered for us on that cross." Holy cow that spoke to me SO MUCH!!! This man who has nothing compared to me was telling me that his sufferings are nothing compared to what Christ suffered, do you know how inspiring that is? (If you have no idea how much Christ suffered on the cross than I suggest you find a bible and read how they describe it in the gospels, that or watch The Passion of the Christ, believer or non-believer I assure you, you will cry.) He told me several times to not conform to the world, this world is nothing compared to life with God, IT WAS AMAZING!!!!! A middle aged homeless man cried in front of me and these were not tears of sadness, these were tears of gratitude. I cannot describe how I felt at that moment.
BUT!
That's not the only friend I made that day. So my bus came and went, whatever, I was doing more important things at the moment, getting home on time could wait. As I was talking to Greg, another friend of his came up to him, his name was Alexis, he was a little younger but also very faithful. We spoke some more about God and about his greatness and we talked about the bible and our favorite books in the bible. Here I was standing with two men who have less material things than me but their faith was amazing, they loved God so much!! That's exactly how I want to be, whether I live in a mansion or in a tent in a park, the one thing that can only change for the better is my love for Christ, my love for God!!
You think your life is hard? Really? My dear, try carrying a cross for miles and miles, try being beaten and humiliated for hours, try having your best friend deny you, try having your father turn his face from you because you are so filthy with sin, sin that you never committed. If the God of all had to suffer, who do you think you are not to? SUFFERING IS NOT BAD!! The testing of your faith develops perseverance and if you have no faith I believe that suffering brings faith.
I want you to listen to this song because it is amazing and it makes me think of Greg and Alexis, my homeless friends from whom I learned that no matter where I go in life, God is better than any blessing and any obstacle. Thank you Greg and Alexis, thank you for your unfailing faith. I wish the whole world could meet these guys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOOFAaUGfRE
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