As you may have gathered from your interactions with me in person and in print, I have ADHD. I take Adderall to help me focus. Often, my schedule revolves around when I need to take the next dose of Adderall. If I take it too soon, it's effects wear out too quickly. If I take it too late, I'm up all night, wired to write or create. I'm pretty good about taking it consistently on time, but when I'm doing something out of the ordinary, I can forget every now and then.
My Adderall schedule was thrown out of whack today while I worked at a Third Avenue North concert, so I feel the need to write something right now.
I've posted this verse before, but I need it a lot, so I'm sharing it again. It's kind of a sly way of tricking my brain into not writing but getting past the ADHD energy flying through my head.
Jeremiah 18:1-6 is a great excerpt of the Bible to read whenever you realize your own mistakes have come back to haunt you, that maybe, just maybe you should have listened to God and not eaten that sixth slice of pizza.
That is all.
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Saturday, January 15, 2011
Sunday, July 4, 2010
How God Works in Our Lives
It's difficult sometimes to understand how God carries out his ultimate plan for us. Me, personally, I never doubt God has a plan for what he wants me to be, but at the same time, I know our own choices can take us away from God's plans.
Ultimately, it comes down to our choice to sin or not to sin, because sin separates us from God, and essentially all God wants is to spend eternity with us. In the end, those who have an intimate relationship with God are better off than those who don't.
I've been struggling for several months now about how God's plan specifically works. It felt weird to me that God has a plan for our lives, but we can choose not to follow that plan, and yet God can incorporate our own choices into his plan. He's done it in my life, specifically in my relationship with Shana, as well as other times which I've already forgotten. As observers of the lives of our friends and family, we often feel we see something they're missing, be it a hopeless romance, an abusive relationship, or an untied shoe. How do these choices we watch our loved ones make play into God's plan for their lives--it's obvious in many cases the situation they're putting themselves in is not what God would have them do, but they're so blinded by their own sin and ignorance they cannot accept it.
It turns out, I just needed to ask God for understanding on the matter, as I did yesterday evening. The very next time I read my Bible, right before I went to bed, God gave me the answers I was looking for.
Countless worship songs and hymns have a verse that goes "You are the Potter, I am the clay." I knew they all referred to the way God molds us and makes us into what he would have us be, usually a faithful believer in Jesus as our Lord and Savior.
In Jeremiah, I found one of the possible biblical inspirations for those old songs.
Apparently, Jeremiah went to the Potter's house and watched the master at work. It was a pot, said potter turned, only, the clay didn't want to cooperate. I'm thinking it wanted to be an ashtray--get ahead of the curve, since at some point in the next two thousand years, cigarettes would be all the rage. But the potter was making a pot, not an ashtray. With his expert wisdom and skill, he worked with the flaws in the clay to make the best pot he could.
In case you missed the metaphor, God asks if he can do to each of us what the potter did to the clay.
We're all clay in God's hands. His plan for us is to make us into a beautiful pot, not some crummy ashtray. God knows we're not perfect, but God is, and his perfection can be shown in our lives if we'll trust him. Don't settle for an ashtray existence. Embrace all that God has called you to be, a pot.
Ultimately, it comes down to our choice to sin or not to sin, because sin separates us from God, and essentially all God wants is to spend eternity with us. In the end, those who have an intimate relationship with God are better off than those who don't.
I've been struggling for several months now about how God's plan specifically works. It felt weird to me that God has a plan for our lives, but we can choose not to follow that plan, and yet God can incorporate our own choices into his plan. He's done it in my life, specifically in my relationship with Shana, as well as other times which I've already forgotten. As observers of the lives of our friends and family, we often feel we see something they're missing, be it a hopeless romance, an abusive relationship, or an untied shoe. How do these choices we watch our loved ones make play into God's plan for their lives--it's obvious in many cases the situation they're putting themselves in is not what God would have them do, but they're so blinded by their own sin and ignorance they cannot accept it.
It turns out, I just needed to ask God for understanding on the matter, as I did yesterday evening. The very next time I read my Bible, right before I went to bed, God gave me the answers I was looking for.
Countless worship songs and hymns have a verse that goes "You are the Potter, I am the clay." I knew they all referred to the way God molds us and makes us into what he would have us be, usually a faithful believer in Jesus as our Lord and Savior.
In Jeremiah, I found one of the possible biblical inspirations for those old songs.
Apparently, Jeremiah went to the Potter's house and watched the master at work. It was a pot, said potter turned, only, the clay didn't want to cooperate. I'm thinking it wanted to be an ashtray--get ahead of the curve, since at some point in the next two thousand years, cigarettes would be all the rage. But the potter was making a pot, not an ashtray. With his expert wisdom and skill, he worked with the flaws in the clay to make the best pot he could.
In case you missed the metaphor, God asks if he can do to each of us what the potter did to the clay.
We're all clay in God's hands. His plan for us is to make us into a beautiful pot, not some crummy ashtray. God knows we're not perfect, but God is, and his perfection can be shown in our lives if we'll trust him. Don't settle for an ashtray existence. Embrace all that God has called you to be, a pot.
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