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Dig the New Widget

So I was voting for the starters for the NHL All Star game and after I was done, they said "get the widget".

I thought, "Well, sure, why not?"

Ergo...

Impetus?

Why do we do the right things?
Why do we even try?
If no one is going to get hurt by it and no one would care as long as "your heart's right about it" (i.e. you won't get caught), then it should be ok, right? Besides, it's "common sense" to look out for one's own interest. And if it's common, it must be right, right?

We do what is right because we are Christians and who we represent is more important than how we look or what we want.

Christ's name is bigger than we are. We are part of a family whose Father sent His Son to die a horrible death that the world would know his love. Countless people have died for this love and held it as the most dear thing in their lives---despite torture to their death.

Am I just so idealistic? Am I just blowing things out of proportion? Or should we really concern ourselves with how we represent Jesus to the world?

SERIOUSLY...Is not the time short?
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One of my favorite new songs has a line in it that involves a man crying out to God: "Please don't let me get the better of me!"

This is one thing has become more and more apparent to me as I move through this journey in life. I have the tendency to rely on myself way too much. I'm an accountant, so I deal in concrete numbers, scenarios and solutions. If something needs to be solved, you just need to force your way through it---make those numbers balance!!!

But, this is not how life works. This is definitely not how God works. He has designed us for himself. So, as I come against all the trials that dizzy me to the puking point, I need to remember that I need to remain in my Bible. This is how God speaks to me. And God, through His word, stops my head from spinning.

The funny part is, why don't I turn to His word in the first place? I know that's where I need to be. Especially with the state of our country and world...
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I Think of the Strangest Stuff After Gutting A Chicken

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I admit it. I don't gut chickens everyday. But, today was a special day. Apparently, I won the Chicken Gut Lottery. It's like having all the fame without the money---and your hands get all icky. Still, overall, an enjoyable experience. OK, maybe not, but it needed to be done.

This reminds me of repentance...

Repentance from sin leads to uncomfortable situations. We humans are icky creatures and we are full of things in our innards---to include, in some cases, innards themselves---that need to be rooted out. And just like with the chicken, some of those innards just won't come lose without a fight. They stick to the inner chicken like leeches, sucking the last remaining bits of life from the body. And it's not pretty. Sinful innards make for a messy extraction.

But God needs to root out the evil anyway. It needs to be done. And God doesn't believe in smoothing things over. He's interested in renewal, regeneration and a new chicken (er...human). At least the chickens are more considerate than humans. I've known chicken innards to give up a fight, as I discovered this evening, but they make much less of a commotion.

I should know because I've put up many good fights over the years. Isn't it curious though that fights always end with God carrying out what He set out to root out in the first place? Why struggle? The mess could have been cleaned up a long time ago...

Where are you today? Is God trying to tell you something that you need cleaned out? Isn't it about time you stopped ignoring Him? Maybe an object lesson would help you let go...

Go gut a chicken...
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