Who's you LORD??

Who is lord of your life?

Who’s the reason you make your decisions? Who’s the reason you wake up in the morning? Who’s the reason you choose not to sin?

As we spoke upon last time, I had this particular girl I lived for in middle school. Then I got to college and it grew that much worse. I lived for popularity. I lived for girls. I lived to be accepted by others.

I chose to sin to be accepted by others.

Jesus is Lord of our life, only if the actions we choose to make prove it.

If we choose to lie to gain acceptance by friends, we’re choosing our friends as LORD over Jesus.
If we choose to cheat on a test, we’re choosing academic success as LORD over Jesus.
If we choose to go too far with our boyfriend/girlfriend, we’re choosing our boyfriend/girlfriend as LORD over Jesus.

Who has lordship of our lives? Look at our actions, they’ll let us know.

Who are you living for??

The cutest girl in middle school was Rachel. Rachel was an athletic, blonde bomb-shell. I was smitten from day one. I acted like I thought Rachel would like. I dressed like I thought Rachel would like. I talked like I thought Rachel would like.

I wanted to be liked by Rachel. I acted differently around Rachel. I LIVED for Rachel.

Something tells me I'm not alone in this.

We live for acceptance in a group at school. We live for popularity within the youth group. We live to meet our parent’s expectations.

But it doesn’t stop there.

We live for our girlfriend/boyfriend’s love and appreciation. We live to gain that next promotion at work. We live to be cool and to be funny and to be accepted for who we are.

The problem is…we don’t always find acceptance. We don’t always find love. We don’t always find appreciation or the promotion.

We fail because we’re human. Others make mistakes because they’re human.

The person who won't fail us?

JESUS.

May we dress for Jesus. May we talk for Jesus. May we act for Jesus.

May we LIVE for Jesus.

Cottage Cheese Explosion

I have a theory. This theory states all individuals must have some kind of a pet before they have children. I would go as far as stating before they are married, but we’ll save that for a later time.

Pets are great. Pets are lovable. Pets are fun. Pets come with a level of responsibility.

Kids are great. Kids are lovable. Kids are fun. Kids come with an even greater level of responsibility.

Get my drift?

I currently live with a dog. Her name is Dolly. The dog technically belongs to one of my housemates, but Dolly has become the token household pet.

Dolly is sweet. Dolly is kind. Dolly is also really old.

One night, I was draining a container of cottage cheese. I had left the container in my car during the middle of the summer for around 3-4 hours. Consequently, the contents became very ill toward my tongue. Even my frugal behavior couldn’t bare the taste or thought of what I was ingesting.

So I emptied the container. However, the drain began to stock-up. I reached for the garbage disposal and left it on for a split-second too long. I don’t know if this is supposed to happen, but I soon had cottage cheese sprouting like Old Faithful out of the sink.

It was messy. It was chunky. It was everywhere.

As I attempted to clean up the mess, the water stopped working. In addition, Dolly, chose now as a perfect time to begin beating her tail against the door, wanting to go out.

Here the sink is, covered in rotten cottage cheese and I have no water to clean it up with Dolly’s tail beating the door like a freight train.

I blew my lid.

We’re not talking the “I gently opened the door to let her out.” We’re talking full-out belt…”GET OUTSIDE!” You get the picture. It was ugly.

I immediately realized I had sinned against Dolly. She came back to the door as, let’s face it, all she wanted to do was check for rabbits outside. I had a choice though for what was to happen next.

I apologized to Dolly. I told her that I had wronged her and asked her what I could do to make things right.

Dolly looked at me with her big brown her eyes and laid next to the counter. I had been forgiven. We were ready to move on.

The choices we make now, create our habits in the future.

May we choose to admit our sins and ask for forgiveness now, in order that we may make a habit of it in the future.