Open Doors

Being a christain allows us to open doors. I am not a preachy person, but I like to talk about religion, at least on some level, which is why I write these blogs.. especially since I started going to church regularly. God wants us to take advantage of open doors, to talk about him and Christinaty and opportunities to help others. Going to church is great and all, but only the people who attend get to hear the message. For a long time I was a "holiday church goer" I just made sure I attended on all the major Holidays and I would show face a few other times a year. My faith never changed, but I wasn't in touch with what church could really do for you, until I started attending the two churched I currently attend. I am taking baby-steps about getting involved, but the ultimate goal is to be more dedicated to God and helping those who need my help. Which is where the opening of doors that my brother spoke about yesterday comes into play.
God wants his word to be spread, and since I am not preachy I have found other outlets to talk about stuff I may not normally talk about. I can share my beliefs with people and let them get to know me better, but I am not forcing it on anyone. If they want to read my blogs here they are.
God has so much love for us and will allow us to put everything on him, which I have said in probably every blog I have written. We just have to want to. He will take our burdens if we let him.
We have been working in the book of revelations the last few weeks visiting various cities and this week we looked at Philidipha, in Turkey, and the city was hit by earthquakes for 4 years straight, pretty much hourly. Jesus told the people he would protect them he would help them if they just believed and followed him. He never said he would stop the earthquakes, but assured the people that if they had a little faith he would get them thru it.
That's how christinaty works. God won't take the bad away, but he will help us deal with it. He will make sure that we are never alone. He will walk by our side as long as we allow him to and we believe and follow.
It's not always easy to be a christian, to follow the rules, to believe in something we can't see, and to trust that "somthing" with everything that's important to us. To live life how he wants us to live it and to follow a book that goes back way before our time. But that's what it's all about. Life isn't easy there are bumps in everyones road, and that's why we need to believe.

Another point in yesterdays service was about how connected we are these days. We have all these websites, phones, and lines of communication. But even with all that people are getting more and more lonely. These lines of communication have allowed us to know what everyone is up to without ever actually talking to them. It also allows us all to gain stocker abalities, which probably isn't a good thing ;-) But seriously, it's sad you know what everyone in your life is doing, but you never have the face to face, you never get the personal contact, and you almost lose the companionship. Don't get me wrong, everyone who knows me knows I am on these sites all the time. I am not knocking them for one minute, but it's still a little sad that these take over as our form of communication.
It seems like people will text, check myspace, or facebook instead of having the face to face conversation.
But the good thing in all this is that no matter how lonely we get, we are never really alone, we still have God to turn to. He will be there no matter what, as long as we let him. He can help us get thru that loneliness, the hurt, the heartache. What ever is bothering us we have to realize we can turn to God and he is beggining us to.

So there are my thoughts and opinions and a little stolen information that I heard at church yesterday. It's really amazing how much a passionate person can make you think about stuff that you may look over in every day life and how they can take stories that happen son long ago and relate it to today. Times and people may change on the outside, but on the inside not as much.