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Phillipians 3:12-14

What’s done is done. The time and energy you spend complaining about it will get you nothing but a lot of frustration and negativity. What’s happened has happened. Instead of looking back, fretting and arguing about why or how or who is at fault, look forward and consider all the positive possibilities that are available to you.

Has there ever been a time in your life that you have been in need of an answer and you really didn’t know what to do or which way to go? Or maybe you just needed to know just where you were. I know that there are many voices in the world today that are competing for our listening ears, some of which are shouting, “We have the truth!”

...sometimes I’m a bit cynical when it comes to the latest “church catch phrases” and lately we have heard a lot of commentary on this whole “destiny thing”, the “We’re going to the next level thing” and the “See your blessed future”. If you’re not careful you’ll experience system overload.

"Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us. That we in our sinful souls can even imagine charity...”

In our culture today, there is so much pressure to conform, The media, our families, our religions all tell us that we should act or think or be a certain way. Anything outside of the societal “norms” is considered an offense and causes us to sometimes feel alienated and unaccented.

Many of us have found a determination that says nothing will stop us and nothing will stand in our way… except for time. “Time” is a word that is not well liked by very many of us. It’s right up there with “wait", “patience” and “endure".

Ephesians 3:20 (NIV)

“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.”

Everyone loves to have good days. But it’s the bad moments in life that test your faith. As painful as it is, it takes the good, bad, and ugly for us to have a complete life. That is God’s design. 

There are groups out there that say because of our affectional orientation we aren’t children of God. However, this is a statement made by people who really can’t begin to understand the love, acceptance, grace and the relationship that we too share with the Father.