Gilmoreism

As i go through this life I am so amazed this great God would even know my name. THen I look at the church and watch people blog stuff about organizations, and pastors, like they know better. I am so amazed how arrogant we get as people when one reads scripture we are sheep of a the Great Sheppard. The idea that one is better than the other amazes me. I think besides deep study of scripture some people need to read a great book by C.J. Mahaney "Humility". There is no way you a sinner made a saint through the blood of Christ can ever be arrogant. I think some men on this blogg stuff need to seek after the face of God and ask for forgiveness.

I pray that for us to be true men of God we have to seek after the face of God and know HIs voice. One can not hear his voice if they are too busy "bahhing" like sheep running to water that kills.

Alright I don't want to get to Holy on people but let me know your thoughts on this situation.
Tonight my wife and I did something we have not done in a while, go on a date without our daughter. Which is great thing and odd just because we have not done that in like two years, actually go out and not have a church event. That was nice!!!
Well we went to the movies early in the evening to watch "One Night with the King". It is a DVD, and is causing me want to go read Ester. After the movie we walked around in the nice cool evening and we windowed shopped.
After our walk we went to a nice restuarnt that is known for thier cheese cakes. We were enjoying our meal until out of no where I saw a roach. Yes a roach crawling towards my wife. I got up told the employees at this factory about the extra guest. This did not shake us up, but did cause some great table conversation.
Two managers came to talk to us and yes we got our meal for free. We walked away from a $60+ meal for $9.
I thanked God for the blessing of a free meal but I have a question for you. To what point do we see this as an event planned by God?
I am starting to expand my view of God in so many ways. The more I hear God's word preached, and read God's word, the more I realize how amazing He is. To me God allowed us to participate in His blessing by allowing us to have a great meal, for a low price of $9. We were able to enjoy one anothers company and have a great memory. I am able to worship God tonight just over some cheese cake.
Looking forward to hearing from you.

I am sitting in my office enjoying a good sermon on line just sitting and reflecting about the past week. This past week I have learned how short life is, how good it is to have friends, learned how God is moving in different areas, and read blogs that disturb me.

This past week I went to a funeral which made me reflect on how short life is. This woman that was celebrated was a sweet young lady and was taken HOME at the early age of 47. Her testimony alone is used by God to win more to Christ. My heart goes out to her husband and I just pray that what he preaches about will become real to him and that he can see God's glory in all this through time.

This past week I learned it was good to have friends that are on the same journey I am on. I enjoyed good laughs and deep discussion on what God is doing in their lives. I am so amazed how God works in people's lives to tie them together. There is no reason why all the guys I count as friends should be friends other than we are bought with the blood of Christ. Due to that one amazing fact that puts all in one brotherhood, thank you Jesus.

This past week I read so many blogs that have taken the focus of Christ out of a picture dealing with church. There have been many changes in what one person would call power positions in churches. Basically a generation of pastors and leaders are now being called home and a new generation is take place of many men. The issue that arise is that the person who replace the old generation sometimes comes across difficulty because they may try to change the culture of a church. The idea that church members who are blood bought get up set because a culture is changed really bothers me. If the pastor and leaders are unBiblical or unethical that is a different story, but because culture is changing people want resignations. What needs to happen is everybody needs to get back to the base of the cross and realize that God is the one incontrol of the church and we just need to submit to His authority. I am grieved to hear how people get things out of focuse and the one who suffers is Christ. I plead that people will wake up and let the Holy Spirit work.

Well I am not sure if anybody reads this or not but hey that is cool. Incase you do read this leave a comment so I know you are reading...

Thanks.