Holy Discontent

I just finished reading a book that was written several years ago by Bill Hybels titled "Holy Discontent" and maybe some of you have already read this book and if you have I hoped it has challenged you as it has e and I would encourage you to reread it and for those who have not read this book I would encourage you to read it.
As I began reading this book I thought to myself this is not what I thought this book would be about and actually I had no idea what I thought the book would be about I liked the name of the book. The book talked about fixing a broken world doing something to help the homeless, the Aid victims those in poverty and so on. The further I read into this book the more i wanted to read of this book and the more I prayed Lord give me a holy discontent. You see this holy discontent is not just about aids, the homeless the poverty level it is about that which gives you a vision and a burden to do something about it. Just this morning I was talking to a man at a local Hardees and he was telling my wife and I about a time in an airport in which there was a elderly man who was having a hard time with all of the things you have to go through at the airports these days since 911 and the person who was to be helping this man was standing there talking about something to a friend of hers and so this man spoke up and mentioned to this girl about her helping this older man to keep this story short this girl did not like it that this man mentioned this and was not very nice to him as well yuou could say for this friend of mine he had a holy discontent time there in the airport (Bill Hybels calls it a popeye moment "Thats all I can stands...I can't stands no more"). This book got me thinking of my own little world and how I have become comfortable in it and as long as it is status quo then everything is alright. The last chapter of this book was where I had to come to grips with my life and my holy discontent which had become an unholy contentment. Bill Hybels challenged church leader to examine their life and see if they have that holy discontent or not and if not that they should stop what they are doing and get with God and ask him to fill them with this holy discontent. It was again I realized that I needed a refilling of this holy discontent. While the which I talked about was for church leaders it holds true for all of us we need that holy discontent may it be for the homeless, the aids victim those in poverty and what ever it may be to fix our broken world my cry has been Lord help me to have a burden and a vision for the spiritually lost help me to have a holy discontentment and let me reach out to the lost. What is your Holy Discontentment?
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Total dependence Total Trust

Today I got to hold a new baby that was not even 24 hours old and she was beautiful. As I stood and held her she just laid their in my arms not afraid not scared that I was going to drop her or harm her in any way there was total trust as she was in my arms. Later on today as i was driving home from the hospital I was thinking about that total trust and total dependence in our Heavenly Father. You see when Roxanne and I got to the hospital and we entered the room the dad of this new little baby asked if I wanted to hold her and when the dad put that little one in my arms I thought that as how we must be with our Heavenly Father we must place our self in His loving arms and rest in His arms it must be total trust and total dependence. Now on to the total dependence. Just as this little one was totally trusting in me she will be in total dependence of her mom and dad for many years to come and being the parents that I know they will be they will meet the need of that small child. Paul said to the Philippians and my God shall supply all your needs. I know in my life that has been true time after time. So what have I learned from this little baby? My trust my dependence must be in my Heavenly Father I must surrender all that I am and will be to Him each day of my life. I do not know about the future but i know who holds my hand
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Is there a do not enter sign

Well this has been a great week I am on vacation I am not at home I am not in the office I am with family and spending some quality time with my granddaughter and what a treat that has been especially when she sees me and comes to me and raises her arms for me to pick her up.
But while on this vacation I am still walking and eating right except when it came to Culver's. Since I really do not know my way around the neighbor we are in I try to stay to a walking route that I do know and at the end of one of the streets that I am on the road narrows and it is enough space for one car to go from on road to another. Where these two roads meet there is a sign stating the familiar Do Not Enter words and I have to admit when driving toward that sign I have not paid any attention to it and drove right past it. There has been times I wondered why that sign was put there and why the road was not made at that point to handle traffic from both ways and why do we ignore that sign. Well yesterday was no exception as I was walking a car saw the sign but instead of turning around and going a couple of blocks over this driver slowed down to see if anyone was coming or if police were watching and then drove right past the Do Not Enter sign my thought was how many times have we seen God's Do Not Enter sign and have just kept going the way we were going and wondered why every thing went crazy on us and it did not turn out like we thought it would. God's word tells u that he has a plan for us these plans do not harm us but give us hope and a future. In my devotions today I was reading from an e-mail devotion sent by the Purpose Driven Life organization and Rick Warren said in this devotional that we have to admit that we need guidance from God. That also includes God's Do Not Enter sign even though we do not see God physically he is watching may we become sensitive to his direction in our life and not only see the Do Not Enter sign but may we see all that God has for us as he leads us in our daily life
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