Heart Surgery

February was a bit of a blur to me. You see, I had heart surgery at the beginning of month and spent the next 4 weeks recovering (1 in the hospital). In fact, I am still recovering.

So, while I was unable to do much over the past 5 weeks, I had a lot of time to think. Here are my thoughts.

Heart surgery is very painful - so is the recovery. I still have pain. But, on the positive side, thus far it seems that my heart problems were all fixed :) My pain = hopefully lifelong healing. At the very least I no longer have a hole in my heart and that is fixed forever!

With this in mind, I'm thinking God can do heart surgery much better than a heart surgeon. So...why won't we (myself included) let him do just this?

Why won't we let Him transform our hearts - molding it to His likeliness?

Why won't we put our hearts in His hands, yet we'll put it in the hands of a human surgeon.

Yes it will be painful. It may even be painful for a long time. But pain is part of the recovery to renewal. This pain would give us a guaranteed lifelong healing. It would change our lives' forever!

If a surgeon can bring physical healing to a heart and change a life for the better then how much more can God do if we let Him do surgery on our hearts.

The Book

The Bible is not for learning all the rules.

It is for simply learning who God is.

It is for us to know Him.

I believe He desires for us to read It with eagerness so that we may develop a more intimate relationship with Him.

The Bible is God's love letter to us. We should be reading it with as much zeal as we would read a letter from our human love.

GOD SPEAKS

Limited

Our View:





God's View:

Where are You?

Lord, where are You...why won't You answer me?

"I'm right here and I am answering, you just need to listen and believe that I will answer."

FAITH

Opportunities

How many opportunities or chances does God give us to get it right?

Seventy times seven - in other words, there is no number.

But my question is: How many opportunities does He give us to do His will? If He guides us in a particular direction and once we get there we sin and mess up that opportunity, does He give us a second chance?

Does God always give second chances when we miss His original blessing in a particular area due to sin? And by second chances I mean the opportunity to fix what we did wrong and try the same thing again?

How many chances do we get to love the one He called us to be with - is that up to God to allow those opportunities or is it up to us to create those opportunities and try again.

Peace Admist Busyness

Peace does not have to be found only in the calmness and serenity of life. One can have peace admist busyness. Peace comes from within.

Likewise, calmness and serenity do not equal peace for if we are under continuous inner turmoil we will feel as if we are constantly busy and peace eludes us.

After asking God to fill me with His peace recently admist my busy schedule, He revealed to me that it is not my busy schedule which has been keeping me from Him and His peace. Instead the inner turmoil and continuous on-the-go of my mind is the reason for my lack of peace. Even when I'm busy I can feel calm and peaceful as long as my heart and mind are in the right Place. If my heart and mind are in the wrong place then it wouldn't matter what I was experiencing or doing in my life, peace would escape me.

Peace is found in Christ. Period.

Carried Dreams

I have been in a rather reflective state as of recent but to tell you the truth I actually quite enjoy being in such states of mind.

There is a Christian song out now of which one line is... "I,'ve been carried by You all my life....everything rides on hope now. Everything rides on faith somehow..."

As I have looked back over my life, recent and old, I can plainly see God's hand in it all. There are still many things I don't understand and things that happened that I haven't quite figured out the reason for or what the ultimate outcome will be but I know that I don't need to know these things because God does. He is in control. God has always carried me and will continue to do so. Everything works for His glory and He always has my best in mind.

I don't understand. I have dreams unanswered. Longings unfulfilled. But one day God will carry me to the place where these dreams are reality and my longings are fulfilled beyond imagination. I know He will because He has before.

Reflect.

Look Back.

God has always been there.

He will always be here.

Ready to fulfill our dreams. My dreams. God always has a way and His will always resounds.

God Enjoys Play

Once

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.~ Henry Ward Beecher

I had it, which is more than most can say, and and that in and of itself is a true blessing from God.

Plans and Desires

God brings about our desires but in His own way and His own time.

We may plan our ways and in the end the things we planned will ultimately occur but God may bring those plans to completion in a way other than how we planned for things to go.

To know or no

We must learn to be satisfied in knowing the One Who knows, even if we ourselves do not know.

Not Choosing...

Not choosing is a choice:

If you're not serving God, you're serving Satan.

Confusion

"Don't confuse activity for productivity."

Beware

"Beware of the barreness of a busy life."

Pleasure

"If you pursue pleasure for its own sake, two things happen. First, it disappears. Second it steers you wrong, because pleasure can result from doing wrong as well as doing right."

Good

"The only way to get something bad is to take something good and spoil it. Whenever you find a bad thing, look for a good thing somewhere in the ruins."

Nobility

"But the noble man makes noble plans and by noble deeds he stands."

-Isaiah 32:8

Spider-Man

"We always have a choice. Always."

- Peter Parker in Spider-Man 3