So I was pressured today to update my blog because I'm lazy and just haven't wanted to mess with it a while. But man has life been crazy and cool and everything under the sun since then. On my last post I spoke about being faithful to God in all of the little things in life like praying daily, reading the Bible, obeying His commands, etc. You know just simply living your life selfless for Him. Well it's been a rough time, but I've been really trying hard to live like that. I've seen so many improvements in my walk and with relationships with people that I know. I love it! So that's how that goes.
Tuesday night we went back to Inner City Dallas to go hang out once again with our brothers and sisters in Christ that are struggling financially. I say that because I am kind of sick of the word homeless. I feel that it carries such a bad connotation with it. I don't want my brothers and sisters to be correlated with that bad connotation. They've got so much more to worry about. And it just seems kind of rude to call someone homeless, don't you think? I mean "we are only one bad decision away from being where they are." (Trevor DeVage) Well, for my decision, I think I would rather not call them homeless. Other than that, tuesday night was great! So much fellowship was taking place. I got to see Mr. Robert (Bill) Thomas, who I wrote about in my first blog of the Inner City. It's so great to see where he is in his relationship with the Lord, and just the communication they have. It's such a blessing to hear him talk about all of the wonderful things he is going through. And it's even a blessing to hear his struggles too. An amazing thing that he told us about was a time that he was sitting and talking to God, I just thought to himself, "Man I hit rock bottom." He said then the Spirit of the Lord just tapped him and said, "I Am the Rock at the bottom." How crazy is that?! I mean that just blew my mind! He is so talented and wonderful, and I shall be looking for his book when it gets published and so shall you. I will hit you with the name of the book, next time. As for now, be praying for him that his relationship with the Lord grows stringer and stronger by the day.Also, I got to meet a couple other guys such as Felix, who is one crazy cat, and Joe, who is struggling right now with his addiction to crack cocaine. Be praying for these guys right now, as I shall be doing. And last, but not least, there is Doug. Wow this guy is amazing! I mean talk about a gentle and selfless, man who longs to be in the arms of his family again. I mean, just picture a large black man who look s like a grizzly bear, but has a heart of gold. This man astonishes me with his stories and his humbleness and gratefulness. As a couple of us were talking to this wonderful of a man, he said, "Man, I appreciate you guys just comin' down here and just talking with us, and just lettin' us vent to you guys. I mean that what I've been doin' and, let me tell you I thank you so much for it." And I was just blown away. For this guy to loose almost everything he owns, being out of a job, and selling cigarettes as a business to make some short change, he is one of the most thankful guys I know. I love him.
So that Tuesday night, I went home and as I was laying in bed, the Lord spoke to me and told me that I needed to get Doug a present. And immediately as I heard that, the first thing that came to my mind was his cane. This large man has a very small cane that he holds with him. I'm not sure if it is something that he needs, or that he uses for a reason other than helping him get up, but I just felt this sudden urge to get a new cane for him. And that's what I shall do. This bring me to the passage of the day for me.
"I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it."
-Romans 7:15-20
''So then, men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the secret things of God. Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful.''
1 Corinthians 4:1-2
You must be faithful in the little things before God will entrust you with the big things.
