Never give up!
I look back at my life and man I thought I went through alot of challenges and hardships. And I also thought I had alot of highs. But really in my past nothing could compare to my new life as a Christion.
In some ways it has been the hardest most challanging thing I've ever done! In others it has been the most rewarding thing that I have everdone! I had this Tee shirt of a guy bulldoggin" a steer had it for along time, 2-3yrs. It read Chronicles 15;-7" Don't let your hands be weak for your work will be rewarded ". It was cool, I wore it every where. But I don't think I really knew what it meant till now. I thought it meant If I worked really really hard, I would have what ever I wanted, for example ; a nice truck, big house etc......and in some cases I had all these "thing" but no happiness, so I would work harder, we'd get more "things" and belive it or not I was even less happy then I satrted out.
There was somthing missing in the formula. But what? I was doing everthing that I could, even what God wanted acorrding to that shirt. I must not be working hard enough, or be working in the wrong field. I quit chasing drilling rigs cold turkey. Told all my loylal custermers that I was shutting the doors and wont come out for them anymore, and stayed true to my word, and tried a different area of the oil pacth, production and completion end of the oilpacth and bussniss was good over 2 yrs I went from a one man band to a 8 man crew, and I worked hard, life was looking up for us on the outside, but on the inside there was absolote turmoil, our home turned to hell. You couldn't spot happieness within a 100 miles of me .
So exzactly what does that scripture that I read on the back of that shirt mean? In some ways it's cool to have scripture or verses on your shirt. But on the other hand if you don't know what it really means it can somtimes point you in the wrong direction or give you false knowlage, as it did with me. For myself I uselly have to read the whole or magority of a chapter to understand a single verse to the fullest.
2 chronicles chapter 15;
The Spirt of God came upon Azarih son of Oded. He went out to meet Asa and said to him "Listen to me , Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The Lord is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you. For along time Israel was with out the true God, wiht out a preist to teach and without law. But in there distress they turned to the Lord, the god of Isreal, and sought him, and he was found by them.
In some ways it has been the hardest most challanging thing I've ever done! In others it has been the most rewarding thing that I have everdone! I had this Tee shirt of a guy bulldoggin" a steer had it for along time, 2-3yrs. It read Chronicles 15;-7" Don't let your hands be weak for your work will be rewarded ". It was cool, I wore it every where. But I don't think I really knew what it meant till now. I thought it meant If I worked really really hard, I would have what ever I wanted, for example ; a nice truck, big house etc......and in some cases I had all these "thing" but no happiness, so I would work harder, we'd get more "things" and belive it or not I was even less happy then I satrted out.
There was somthing missing in the formula. But what? I was doing everthing that I could, even what God wanted acorrding to that shirt. I must not be working hard enough, or be working in the wrong field. I quit chasing drilling rigs cold turkey. Told all my loylal custermers that I was shutting the doors and wont come out for them anymore, and stayed true to my word, and tried a different area of the oil pacth, production and completion end of the oilpacth and bussniss was good over 2 yrs I went from a one man band to a 8 man crew, and I worked hard, life was looking up for us on the outside, but on the inside there was absolote turmoil, our home turned to hell. You couldn't spot happieness within a 100 miles of me .
So exzactly what does that scripture that I read on the back of that shirt mean? In some ways it's cool to have scripture or verses on your shirt. But on the other hand if you don't know what it really means it can somtimes point you in the wrong direction or give you false knowlage, as it did with me. For myself I uselly have to read the whole or magority of a chapter to understand a single verse to the fullest.
2 chronicles chapter 15;
The Spirt of God came upon Azarih son of Oded. He went out to meet Asa and said to him "Listen to me , Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The Lord is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you. For along time Israel was with out the true God, wiht out a preist to teach and without law. But in there distress they turned to the Lord, the god of Isreal, and sought him, and he was found by them.
In those days it was not safe to travel about, for all the inhabitaets of the lands where in great turmoil . One nation was being chrushed by another and one city by another, Becouse God was troubling them with every kind of distress. (7) But as for you , be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded. (kjv)( Be ye strong therefore and let not your hands be weak, for your work will be rewarded ).
It funny how one little verse will mean a multitude of things when taken out of it's context! In fact I think that may be one of the enemies tricks to the layman. We should all be wary of what we are sporting even though in Deuetronomy chapter 6;8-9 says
Tie them as sympols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
I believe we should do all that and more but in doing so we must also educate all who see's what it really means.
posted by scattered seeds at 1:13 PM
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