Isaiah and Sara

You may notice the redesign of my blog, if only to note the new ability to comment thanks to Disqus.  Mostly it is simply a different template, a change of the outer shell.

One thing you’ll find about me is that I like to change things… that isn’t to say that I like change.  Change that I don’t control scares me, and I usually don’t like it.

This got me thinking about how God changes us.  When we become Christians, God’s love and His Spirit should be changing us.  Our priorities should change to God’s priorities.

That’s where I realized that we all need a re-design that only God can give.  He can change us from that selfish person to an un-selfish man/woman of God.  As we follow God, we need to be continually changing into the person that God wants us to be.

What needs to be redesigned in your life?

in Christ,

Isaiah

Every Christian should start their day with the Bible in one hand, and the newspaper in the other.
Karl Barth

Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, “Do it again” to the sun; and every evening, “Do it again” to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we. – G.K. Chesterton

To those who say Church is boring, say this to yourself: ‘Church is boring because I am boring. I am boring because I don’t think of other people enough.’
Scott Beckenhauer – speaker at Winter White Wash

Life life as a response to God’s love, not as if you were trying to become worthy of it…

Matthew 18:23-35

23 “Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. 24 As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him. 25 Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt. 26 “The servant fell on his knees before him. ‘Be patient with me,’ he begged, ‘and I will pay back everything.’ 27 The servant’s master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go. 28 “But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began to choke him. ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ he demanded. 29 “His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.’ 30 “But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt. 31 When the other servants saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed and went and told their master everything that had happened. 32 “Then the master called the servant in. ‘You wicked servant,’ he said, ‘I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. 33 Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?’ 34 In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed. 35 “This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart.”

For some reason this passage never clicked like it did when I read it last night…

The servant is forgiven an extreme debt, by a merciful master.  Then the same servant is a wicked master to the one who owes him so much less.  That’s when I realized I am that man…  when I don’t forgive others who sin against me.

Its funny because we automatically think how much of a jerk that wicked servant must have been, without realizing how much like that man we are.

Holding a grudge?  Mad about someone’s sin against you?  Are you forgiven much?  Then return the favor to those who sin against you.

in Christ,

Isaiah

Onyx – the dog who likes to make snow angels

or is that snow dog-angels…

99 balloons

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The story of Eliot.

Amazing video… words fail me… just watch.

in Christ,

Isaiah