meChurch...Glad it doesn't exist!

During my shower this morning, I started thinking about this video and giggling. 

It absolutely cracks me up. But it is kind of true, isn't it? We want a God who suits us and our needs and is cool with what we want to do.  I call it Burger King church: Have it Your Way!

But it doesn't work that way and that's good. 

Jesus said,  “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me." Luke 9:23

Also, Paul says,"I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out" Romans 7:18

Sinful nature can boil down to doing things our way according to our agenda. 

My daughter needs rules and perimeters. If I slack on enforcing them, she gets out of control. If I allowed her to do whatever she wanted, the house would be destroyed, I would have no books in tact and my walls would be covered with her amazing artwork. 

Denying yourself isn't a bad thing. If I didn't, I would be 800lbs, drunk and angry all the time! 

Seriously, I would!

The great thing is God has a whole book that we can read that tell us what is great for us and what is not so good and what is deadly to us.

Watch out Oprah, my book club just started.

First book: The Bible 

Now look under your chairs, you won a new car! 

Nope, no new car but wouldn't that have been cool. How about this...

Put God first, read this book and apply it to your life and you will feel BETTER than winning a new car. New cars get old...new life is eternal!

Death and Restoration

Whitney has died. We are not sure how, but there is speculation that she drowned in her bathtub. Various pills were supposedly found. Died so young. 48 is young. A life entangled in drug abuse. Her family grieves and mourns. So young.

Yesterday, Dan received a letter welcoming him into the fellowship of the Assemblies of God as a minster.
A package was labeled, Reverend Daniel Moorhead.

The grief of Whitney's family is not lost on me. I understand it and feared it for years. Almost six years ago, I believed that my husband would die. That I would lose him forever, too young to alcohol. There seemed to be no hope. He was dying in front of me. When you see a man who is 6'1 and weighs a total of 150...with his clothes on...you are seeing death.

That night I gave up. There was no hope for our marriage. No hope for his life. And I didn't want to watch him die. I had made decisions. God, I am done.

Enter God...

The next day while I was at work, my husband called. He was going to Florida for rehab.
You see, that night...that very night he called to God. He said heal me or kill me. He awoke to the phone book opened to a rehab in Florida. Florida? We are in Vegas! God sent him to Florida. Showed him how his life could or could not be. He surrendered. Now he is receiving letters addressed to Reverend Moorhead.

God can use, restore, resurrect, reignite, inflame, insight, change, overwhelm, expose, heal, reduce, rebuild, remake....ANYTHING OR ANYONE. You just need to be willing. "Ask and you will receive. Seek and you will find. Knock and the door will be open to you."

My heart breaks. Such talent. Gone. I pray this tragedy is used to change lives for the better. I pray for her grieving family.

Let's knock...