The Best Part of Waking Up...
...Is Foldger's in your cup. The worst part of waking up in life, is that something bad probably just happened.
Our speaker at fellowship tonight was a man by the name of Josh Canales. A young baseball player who recently left AAA baseball to follow a call to ministry. During his sermon, he recalled a time in a summer baseball league when a foul ball off his bat hit his best friend in the back of the head. Within minutes, the friend was laying on the ground. Shortly after, he was out cold. Before an ambulance could arrive, he was convulsing. The fact is, Josh's friend passed long before we would say his time had arrived.
To answer your question of why he would share this with us, Josh looks at this point in his life as the time when he "woke up" in his life with Christ. He'd been talking the talk for a long time, but it was nothing more than talking in his sleep, because his actions were not lining up with his words...or The Word. He then posed a question that haunts me...
...why do we only "wake up" after catastrophes? Or even better, why do we even fall asleep in our walk with Christ in the first place? I've been there, I've done that...I was too cheap to buy the T-shirt. Man, I don't want to go back. I look back on those days and I'm disgusted. I wish I were looking at another person. Don't get me wrong, I don't regret the road God has taken me on, but I do see the mistakes that forced me on some detours.
I don't know why I even wrote this post other than to say, I am wide awake! Like a hyperactive kid on three Mountain Dews and a NoDoze playing video games. I am excited about God and what He's doing here on earth. I just wanna make sure I never doze and miss something He wants me to see.
You know, if Foldger's in your cup seems good, you need to try getting your cup filled with Jesus. Then you'll be waking up...and you may not need the bad stuff that comes first.
Stay awake!!
Bobby
Our speaker at fellowship tonight was a man by the name of Josh Canales. A young baseball player who recently left AAA baseball to follow a call to ministry. During his sermon, he recalled a time in a summer baseball league when a foul ball off his bat hit his best friend in the back of the head. Within minutes, the friend was laying on the ground. Shortly after, he was out cold. Before an ambulance could arrive, he was convulsing. The fact is, Josh's friend passed long before we would say his time had arrived.
To answer your question of why he would share this with us, Josh looks at this point in his life as the time when he "woke up" in his life with Christ. He'd been talking the talk for a long time, but it was nothing more than talking in his sleep, because his actions were not lining up with his words...or The Word. He then posed a question that haunts me...
...why do we only "wake up" after catastrophes? Or even better, why do we even fall asleep in our walk with Christ in the first place? I've been there, I've done that...I was too cheap to buy the T-shirt. Man, I don't want to go back. I look back on those days and I'm disgusted. I wish I were looking at another person. Don't get me wrong, I don't regret the road God has taken me on, but I do see the mistakes that forced me on some detours.
I don't know why I even wrote this post other than to say, I am wide awake! Like a hyperactive kid on three Mountain Dews and a NoDoze playing video games. I am excited about God and what He's doing here on earth. I just wanna make sure I never doze and miss something He wants me to see.
You know, if Foldger's in your cup seems good, you need to try getting your cup filled with Jesus. Then you'll be waking up...and you may not need the bad stuff that comes first.
Stay awake!!
Bobby
posted by Bobby at 9:33 PM
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Hey Bobby- hope you don't mind me commenting here! I just wanted to tell you great post... and so true. I do believe that God uses our "asleep" times and still get's the glory... think about it. It is when HE creates beauty from ashes that the worldly world can see what OUR Savior is capable of! Yeah- the asleep time hurts those of us who get off track from God- but it is in those moments of our reawakening, that our walk becomes more revelant and relational to those on the outside looking in wondering what this God thing is really all about.
So- to those of you who have fallen asleep at the wheel and are awake again, use those experiences for good, not evil- tell people about God's grace and how your life is changed because of it! Be light in the dark...
oh... and keep drinkin the Dew and don't ever buy cheap tshirts... they shrink.
Blessings, Suz (the big haired girl from Florida)
Great post, bobby... I will think differently about my morning cup of coffee :-)
Bobby,
Suz thru Alicia introduced me to your blog - blog on bro! I love the Jesus I see in your writing. Keep up the writing, you are influencing many.
Hook
Hey, you may not know why you were writing that blog, but God did. I needed that message today. I have been kind of down today, as I was thinking back to my college experience, and all I would have done differently. But you know what, mistakes make us real - and God's power is made perfect in my weakness...and that includes all those mistakes I would rather forget!
Thanks.
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