So I picked up my Bible today. It has been a very long time. Today marks the 1st day of my vacation from work. This is the 1st real vacation that I’m going on for any length of time. As some of you know I have been inactive in the blogging sphere and I have also have been inactive with my updating of GODSurfer.com.
My relationship with God is muted lately. All of it, is because I pulled away. I have partook in some un-Christian like things and continued that behavior for awhile. However, there were brief periods where my mind was not full of sin and I was actually able to utter some prayers. God was always there as He was in the past. At one point in time I seriously thought about shutting down GODSurfer. I was upset that it didn’t take off like I felt it should, I was upset that other Christians didn’t embrace it, I was upset in general. But I hesisitated… I thought maybe I shouldn’t care what others think. Maybe the Christians that I knew weren’t supposed to embrace it. I began to think that I should “Let Go and Let God”. I know that is a cliche you hear at church. But it means to quit worrying and just let God take over and just watch what happens.
During this period of darkness for me, I became a heavy Facebook user. I’ll be honest I love it. Yes it can be a time waster but I really like the vehicle that if offers me in communicating with friends and family. For example my brother and I wouldn’t normally pick up the phone but we are able to send each other simple messages via Facebook and communicate that way. I have a different Facebook philosophy than some others do. I don’t have a ton of friends on Facebook, in fact I regularly purge the friends on my list as I like to keep a close knit bunch that actually use the site as it was intended. In anycase I really began to see the power of that site. I started to wonder how I could combine what I have with GODSurfer and implement some of the ideas from Facebook as well.
Well I’m not going to go into the details of exactly what I’m going to do, but… Lets talk about the phrase Alpha and Omega. These 3 words are brought up in the New Testament in the Book of Revelations (Revelation 1: 8, 21:6 ,22:13). Alpha is the 1st letter in the Greek alphabet and Omega is the last (A & Z in the English alphabet). In Revelations Jesus either said or told Paul that “I am the Alpha and the Omega…”, “…the first and the last…”, “…the Beginning and the End.”
I read those statements as Jesus saying that he is complete and that all we need is Him. We do not need to look outside of him because He contains it all. When I think about what I just wrote, I realize how true of a statement that actually is. All we need is Him.
I have started GODSurfer:Project Alpha and Omega. Look here for further updates on the status of GODSurfer.
Ok, I’ve decided that I will not let this site go into disrepair. Although it looks like it is, it is NOT! I’m going on vacation soon and my hope is to change things around a lot.
Basically, I’ve been living many lives online. My God life (which I need to concentrate on again), my political life, my professional life and my social life…
I can’t do that anymore. There needs to be a balance. GODSurfer is not dead, it will still be about God but it will be as the name suggests… A person online trying to have a relationship with God. This is going to be my story. I plan on combining my professional life in this site I also plan on linking my FaceBook profile with this site. Politics and family will be a critical feature of this site as well.
I look forward to the journey.
Hang with me for just a little longer…
I read the following article today about a Wall Street trader that used to make $250k and now he makes $25k.
http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/107145/From-Ordering-Steak-and-Lobster-to-Serving-It
It is amazing how God sometimes teaches us lessons that aren’t always pleasant. Although this article did not mention if Mr. Araya was praying, I hope that he is. I found it interesting that the last sentence of the article stated: “I used to see unemployed people and think they were lazy, that it was all on them. Now it’s happened to me.” This man is learning a lesson and is being molded.
I hope people keep the faith and remember that when God closes 1 door many others open. I find myself repeating that statement to a lot of unemployeed people now.
I hope everyone who is in financially tough times now keeps the faith. Pray, read your Bible and get to know God again.
I’ve been thinking about writing a new blog post about the church. I have to admit it wasn’t going to be a nice one. I was thinking it was going to be a scathing post. But I had reservations about writing such a piece as the whole parable about the log in your own eye.
However, I heard a piece by Michael Savage about how the White House asked Georgetown University to cover up the symbol “IHS” which spells out Jesus. Georgetown University is a Catholic University. The fact that they did this is disgusting. They basically broke their principles of being an institution of Jesus for time with their new savior. President Obama. The full article is below.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/04/16/georgetown-university-hid-religious-symbols-white-house-request/
What does this prove? Well it proves that this institution cares more about the Political Correctness of a government gone mad. It proves that a once proud conservative college has now gone to being a liberal college. It proves that the church here in America is weakening. It proves that Christ is closer to returning then we are ready for…
You need another example? How about this… Notre Dame is inviting uber liberal President Obama to speak at a commencement ceremony. Yes the same President Obama that is for abortion rights. Notre Dame is another Catholic university, where the Catholic church routinly tells members of Congress that they can not partake in the scrament of the Eucharist because of their stance on Abortion. How and why is Notre Dame doing this? Well I would say that the Administration is super liberal and basically is telling the Church to fly a kite and they are looking at their new hero. That is just an opinion… But it just goes to show that President Obama has many people brain washed. They were on the fence with the Bible, Jesus and God but now with Obama they have forgotten their principles. It is ashame really, but unfortunately it is a path that many in the church are on. The Catholic church was the main culprit in this post but I would say it is also rampent in both traditional conservative religions organizations as well as the non-denominational Christian church.
Jesus is returning… I know I’m not ready, are you? Get your house in order. Ask Jesus for forgiveness. Read the Bible, pray daily, restart your relationship with God now.
As I’ve stated before I am not a Barack Obama supporter, however, he is my president of my country currently. I do not agree with most (if not all)of his changes that he has made since becoming Commander in Chief. With that being said, I have to admit that I feel that the right wing community is being patently unfair to the man.
George W. Bush was roundly criticized because he was not an elegant speaker and did not communicate to the people of the country. However, Barack Obama goes to the Tonight Show and gets criticized for it being a soft interview and one that doesn’t do the country any good. I’m sorry but I just don’t see it that way. The man is being lambasted because he is acting like one of us. That makes no sense as he is supposed to be one of us. Speaking to the American people is never a bad thing. It is the only way people can become informed.
Now maybe he has some sinister secrets regarding AIG and the Financial sector and driving the country to a socialist nation. I don’t know. But I watched the interview on the Tonight Show and I thought he did a good job with it. Sure he might of offended the Special Olympics, but that only proves that he is human. He might of studdered, but he did better speaking then GWB. I don’t think it is fair for him to be criticized for speaking to the public.
I also want to state that right now the government is being run by the Democrats in the Congress. The President in my mind should be taken to task for that as he should stand up to the leaders in Congress and put them in their place. But he is a lap dog right now for Pelosi and Ried, which maybe by design. If that is the case then he will have issues getting re-elected. So he has got some work to do, but I think the right needs to take a pill and relax a little bit as I believe he honestly thinks he is doing the right thing for the country.
