It’s Too Cold In Nashville

It’s 33 degrees outside. I moved south so I wouldn’t have to deal with the cold. Clearly I did not move far enough south. At least if it snows it is gone in one day. Warmth! I need warmth. Maybe we can create a bubble… a biodome over Nashville that allows a 75 degree day every day. We can have the option to enter and live there for a time and the option to leave (so it doesn’t become a Truman Show). You build it and they will come.

Faith Can Be Frustrating

Something I struggle with is the difference between “stepping out in faith” and “acting in faith”. From studying scripture I think that both occur, but it’s just that… well… I see God giving such excellent instruction to those who have gone before us… those who are the great cloud of witnesses to faith.

I see how God instructed Gideon… and Gideon believed God’s Word and acted in faith. I see how God told Joshua to have the priests step into the Jordan and they acted in faith based on what God had said (they didn’t just step out blindly). I see how the kings, when they inquired of God were instructed as to what they should do.¬†

A striking and humbling story to me is that of Asa. It really shakes me actually. I see how he sought the Lord and turned Judah to seek the Lord and how he relied on the Lord for deliverance from the great Ethiopian army. But then. Yes, then he did not rely on God when Israel came against Judah.. instead he relied on Syria and God sent a prophet to rebuke him. Asa was angry and threw the prophet in prison. Then, just as striking to me, the scripture says that Asa became diseased in his feet, yet he did not seek the Lord but the physicians. II Chronicles 16:7-14 (or for his whole life chapters 14,15,16)

Do you see it. How the scripture rebukes him for not inquiring from the Lord but instead the doctors first. So sure we can go on to look at who we turn to first and where our trust is… but look at faith in action and it is based in what God tells us after we seek Him and trust Him.¬†

I am afraid too many times I lean on what I think or what society tells me or what is “feasible” instead of what God is telling me. I want to act in faith based on what He tells me. So like Philip, when an angel of the Lord told him to go down to Gaza… and in faith he went. Then the Spirit of the Lord told him to overtake the chariot… and in faith he did and preached Christ to the Ethiopian eunuch.

Oh that the Lord would give me ears to hear so that I may hear, trust, and obey

Ah Yes. I Clinched A Playoff Berth

I would just like to make it known that I clinched a playoff berth in my fantasy football league. I have a really good team this year but the competition is still pretty tough. I drafted Brady and after seeing him get knocked out for the season after the first week, I lucked out picking up Kurt Warner who has been tearing it up.

I have killer receivers this year too. Not sure how that happened. I have Andre Johnson, Terrell Owens, Brandon Marshall, Greg Jennings, Marvin Harrison, and Eddie Royal. AJ has been the most solid, everyone else has been a week to week decision. I have Michael Turner, Chris Johnson, Steve Slaton, and Thomas Jones for my running backs. Baltimore D. Bo Scaife and Owen Daniels are my tight ends… wish I had Gates or Gonzalez here but they have been pretty good.

This is my year… I can feel it.