Not my chair, not my problem.

I had a wonderful weekend. That said, i have got some things i need to think and pray about.

Ive got some challenges in the future and I'm a little scared about how to handle them. Ive always had problems and I'm hoping that with a God approach those can be eliminated. Ryan told me once not to pray that God takes away my problems, but that he gives me an opportunity to work through them. I'm excited about all the things God is doing in my life, but scared at the same time. Its an interesting feeling. I guess i just don't want to make the same mistakes i always do.

Also.

I went to church yesterday and came to the conclusion that i want Pastor Justin to do a whole one week topical on fearing the Lord. He doesn't do topicals much, but when he does they are very very good. Like the one about understanding the wrath of God to understand the love of God. I want him to do one on the fear of the Lord. And its for the reason that i have thought about it for a couple months and agree with what he said yesterday, in that nowadays we don't have an appropriate fear of God. And i think without that fear, we live our lives more content in sin then ever before. I know that Jesus died for our sins. But does that mean we should hide behind him and use his sacrifice to our advantage? Does that mean we should take advantage of what he did, so that we can do those things we know we shouldn't? I feel that because we know our sins are covered up by the blood of Christ, that many of us use that to our full advantage to do whatever the heck we want. I want to see the fear back in people. I want to see the fear that pushes them to be perfect for God. That pushes us to do everything in our power to please God and stay in his good graces. I want to see that.