Musings.

Father forgive me, for I know not what I do. 
Your child, 
Jenn. 


I don't know what i'm doing. My mind is a net in the wind, catching all sorts of ideas and thoughts... i take them each and study them. Analyzing wether they are worth keeping and then where I should keep them at. Perhaps they belong on the back burner, perhaps at the front door. My doings are always in a fluctuating balance of positive and negative, concerning my intake of my environment and how I chose to react to it.

I can't, or at least shouldn't, allow myself to critique the church. I can, or at least should try to, implore the church to become re-spirited. And I, being the least of these, cannot hardly do so without being convicted of my own idleness. Therefore I do nothing. But Love does things, so on I go...


So often being in a church building bothers me. So much money for projectors and salaries, such expensive furnishings! Negative. But what can I say? I am not a pastor or even substantially educated in the aspects of religious and biblical knowledge. If I can be in charge of one thing, it is the way I live my life and how I will allow myself to react to situations. A little less Negative. In fact, I will choose to see what IS working in the church knowing that complaining will only create offensive reactions. A person's heart needs to be reunited with Christ, only then can the Spirit direct their decisions. So I come to my main point: I can only implore that we, as individuals in the church would walk closer in our relationship with God.

Cause -> Effect = Salvation -> Good works. As the effect cannot create or come before the cause, so good works cannot give birth to salvation. 




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Are you ready for more? Because I've been having thought hurricanes all week this week.

1) What is truth? Look past the advertisements. 

Use your head and let your heart follow... emotions are aimless and most often cannot be trusted, so keep a balance. Radio and TV Commercials exploit the emotions so always question their motives. Morals and Christian Living is currently not in style, so watch yourself and be careful what you let into your mind and heart.



2) Don't read the bible for info, read it for application. 

I heard a good point today at church: "Make the gospel a life study. So often we listen to ourselves instead of speaking to ourselves. We need to see how we are acting from the outside."

3) Complaining too often turns into gossip. 

Complaining is fun, true and can help relieve stress in a bad situation. But there's a fine line between distressing about something and gossip. You have no right to complain if you are not doing anything to help the situation you are complaining about, communication is essential... and idle talk damages relationships.


4) "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." Mahatma Ghandi

Ghandi is very observant and correct. This is very true. And his conclusion is the point... we are all, hopelessly sinful, mistake ridden people. We desperately need a perfect Christ to lead us and to save us.  Life is a constant renewal so lets strive to be like Christ.. but accept that only He is perfect.

5) Correction is not rejection, it is direction. 


Hm, yeah. I'm finding it is always better to see situations from the involved individuals perspective and to ask, "Are they right?" Defuse critical conversations by controlling your own reactions.


6) Watch that you don't idolize Success and Business, remember that money is a tool. People are the treasure. 

People, living flesh and blood and soul are the ones who feel and need nurturing. People rarely remember what you say or do... they will more often remember how you made them feel.


2 Peter 1:5-7 " For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge;  and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness;  and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.  For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ." 

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