My Current Prayer

Mark 4:10-12; Luke 8:9-10

Lord,

         

I want to hear & obey. I don’t want to be the kind of person you’re talking about in this passage. Grace me with better understanding and wisdom. Give me humility to know when I’ve done wrong & when my pride is in the way. Forgive me for my attitude today. I thought I had the right to be mad. But really I don’t have a right to anything. My pride made me want to be mad and frustrated. I wanted to react in the way the world expected. Please give me the strength to react in the way you expect and empower me.

Love,

Owlee

What's in a Fisherman?

Mark 1:16-20; Luke 5:1-11; Matthew 4:18-22

Why did Jesus pick fisherman for his disciples? A number of his closest 12 were fisherman, and his 3 closest were fisherman. There was obviously a quality about these men that caused Jesus to pick them to be fishers of men.

-Patience is a virtue. We've all heard that, but it takes A LOT of patience to fish. Both for men & actual fish.

-Have to be willing to face the storms. (One of the requirements for the job)

-The more you fish, the more experienced you become and the better you are.

-When fishing nowadays, you have to know which bait and line you want to use for the type of fish you want to catch. (I don't know how they fished in the Roman empire). For example, you're not going to plan a rock concert to win the elderly over to Christ...

-Disciplined with equipment. Reading the Bible, talking to God, etc.

-Perseverance: some days you don't catch anything, but you go out the next day anyway.

-Jesus brings in the multitudes.

When thinking about fishermen, I realized that God has a sense of humor. He likes to connect everything so that it might not make sense at first glance, but there really is a reason why Jesus decided to hang out with people that smelled of fish guts. All of the qualities that are required with fish fishing, are required to fish for men. I hope you make the same connection I did when you read these passages.

From Concussion Times

Concussion. Slows you down. Frustrates you. Makes you emotional. Sucks. But everything happens for a reason. Full scholarship through college, gone. 28 on ACT's when I needed a 29. Narnia, The Last Battle, Ustace and Jill didn't get to Narnia using the rings, the play THEY had come up with. Aslan didn't need the rings. God doesn't need my ACT scores. "I finally got some sense knocked into me, and I have the bump to prove it." Simba. I have my bump from falling to prove what I learned. I prayed that God would teach me something through Narnia since I can't read yet, and he did. He used Narnia and Disney, two of my favorite things. God works in mysterious ways. It gets me trusting in Him again. I had it all figured out. I didn't need him anymore. Now I see I will always need Him, and if I feel I don't, He'll make sure that I'll do.


14 January 2012 journal entry
I wrote this in my journal 5 days after I hit my head and got my concussion. I have just gotten around to putting it up in my busy schedule. Still a good reminder of our dependence on God.