Hearing from God.

Hello,
Well it’s another year started, and it’s at this time of year we think of new things that we’re beginning, or thinking about doing.

Those new year resolutions are either kept or broken.

And that’s not a bad thing. it’s good for us to make goals, to extend ourselves, a bit.

Some friends have moved away, some friends have found their launching pad and are rocketing through life.

Me, I’m a slow learner, a thinker, I think about things, and ponder.

Perhaps a bit of a dreamer.

If it’s a coffee catch up, with a friend. I really want to know how they are getting on, or how that garden is, how those blue berry plants are going in my friends blue berry plant grove.

I stand back in amazement, on how my friends lives are going, some have brought houses, some have ideas of their own, that will go very well with them.

The fact is, that sometimes, fear cripples, us, and freezers us to move.

We get tired of the things that we liked doing, or we get into a trap, and we loose motivation.

My friends, if that’s you, if you feel like you’re always the one, doing it, because “no one else will.’’ look for those who have hidden talent, so that you can, be encouraged to share the load.

Burn out are high on the list, in our Christian lives, we think we don’t need church, we can do home church, we isolate ourselves because other people see us differently.

So we stay away from them, and it’s easy to get ourselves into a rut, to take work on Sundays, because it’s easier to earn money, than to seek God’s will for our lives.

And that is wrong, but society has told us other wise.

We have easter trading, and supermarkets are selling hot cross buns in January, and in their flyer they say that they might not be in all supermarkets.

It’s so easy to loose focus on what we’re currently doing or what we should be doing, and first and foremost, having our spiritual journey in check.

What do we do about it?

We go back to the bible, and we go back to God, we simply have lost our faith, and when we loose our faith, we are clutching at straws.

Or just doing things on a whim, because they seem like a good idea at the time.

Is it really a good idea, to just keep deceiving ourselves?

Where does that come from?

Well it comes from a little lie we believed, that we were too this too that, not funny enough, we blame ourselves, we blame face-book, we blame our phones, we blame others, who didn’t intend to hurt but hurt us, we blame those who we trust-est, and we found out otherwise.

Life is full of up’s and downs, it’s never a bare foot walk in the park, you’re bound to stand on a few thorns or sharp stones.

Our expectations, either get lower, or higher, we set our goals too low so we just achieve the “survival’’ stage, so we put up protective barriers.

Or we are huge goal achievers, so we have to get on with the next thing.

I hear the rain on the roof, and I wonder what sort of dude was Christ when he is amongst us, what sort of things would he use to propel us forward?

When Jesus was walking along the shore and called his first disciples, what did he see in them?
Normal fishermen, guys with a trade, and fishermen, weren’t well paid, but they were risk takers.

Tax collectors, people who climbed trees, and invited himself around for a dinner party of 2.

So this year, when you start on your new venture, whatever you do, stand back, from the shore, and, stretch out your arms, and say.

“Here Lord, I’m here and I put all my ambitions and dreams aside.


 And I let you to have free reign over my life, my life isn’t mine anymore.’’ and watch him move.