Where did you meet God?

My nephew and I had an interesting conversation the other day about his future, and mine for that matter. He's a young man full of dreams. I'm a getting older man, but still full of dreams. We started talking about his dreams and what it would take to get to them. Of course, the old "if that's what God wants, it will happen" statement came into the conversation. Me, being the "getting older" man, challenged that. Not because I think I'm wiser, but because I'm learning. I asked the "younger man" this question: Where does your obligation and God's opportunity meet?

I described to him what I believe is God's perspective of our dreams. I believe those moments when a dream starts to awaken in us is God whispering to us saying, "Hey Glyn, I've got this idea and I want to share it with you. Here it is . . . What do you think? I wanted to share this with you because I wanted to give you the opportunity to do something with it."

Here are a couple of things I've discovered:

1. People who seem to be doing the most FOR God are really just doing something WITH God. When God whispers a dream to you, He is inviting and igniting you to work with Him.

2. If God has to tell you every detailed step, then you've not been given opportunity, you've been given orders. We can get so hung up in trying to do the dream for God that we strip the opportunity down to an order, and thus discourage ourselves when we can't do it.

3. Do all you can in the human realm, and let God be responsible for all else. Let your obligation meet God's opportunity. A favorite line from a song I have been listening to lately. "The waters never part until our feet get wet!"

If it's a ministry you're dreaming of starting, go get training, experience, a 501c3, advice. If it's a business, check out the competition, loans, buildings, equipment.

Where will you and God meet???

I Dare You To . . .

I would be willing to bet 95% of you filled in the blank before you started reading any further. I'd also be willing to bet you filled it in with an action word, and the word you chose reflected some form of movement. So what is it that I am daring you to do...

NOTHING.

I dare you to do nothing. Sometimes nothing is all you can do, and yet nothing is everything God wants you to do. In fact, doing nothing may even be His command to you. Wow. Have you ever offered to help someone because you genuinely wanted to bless them, and when you offer, their response is, "nothing." If you're like me, that can be a little frustrating. Dog gonnit, I'm trying to help you... don't tell me I should do nothing.

Dog gonnit, God, I'm trying to help you do something, for me. Don't tell me to do nothing. Funny how we want to do as little as possible and still reap full rewards, but can't handle it if God tells us to do just that, nothing, as little as possible.

God is big enough to do things the way He wants, but He's not as bull headed as we are. He'll let us keep pushing something when what He really wants is nothing.

I dare you to . . . DO NOTHING!!

Forgive Me, I'm Not Apologizing

One thing I've tried not to do with any blog I've ever done is to complain or be negative about anything. It's never encouraging, no matter how sincere you are. However, I have to speak up and this seems to be the best place for me to get this off of my chest. So, here we go . . .

The American Music Awards seemed to cause quite a stir this year. Funny mishaps like Paula Abduhl's mic not being on to J-Lo's "leap of faith" are to be expected, it's a live performance, but the extreme over-sexed performances of a many of the artists was sickening. I only saw 1 1/2 of them.

Here is where I will not apologize . . . This is the first time I've ever even watched the AMA's, and even then I only watched about 7 minutes before it turned me off. The next day I saw several comments on a social networking site about the AMA's. The majority of them were talking about how disappointing the show and artist's were. Then a particular comment really caught my eye as it brought into question how God must have felt about Adam Lambert's performance (I won't even go there. I said it when he was on Idol, he is evil). I understood the question very well, as it was followed by a sad face :( driving home the point that God has granted him an ability to sing, perform, command attention, and draw people in, but it is being wasted. However, that to me is not the saddest part.

How God must have felt not only seeing so many talented people wasting, even abusing their talent, but also how He must have felt seeing so many of His people wasting and abusing His gift of time by watching it. Why are we shocked at what Hollywood does? Why do we continue to subject ourselves? Do we honestly think that one of these days Hollywood is going to repent (turn around 180 degrees)? I am more appalled at the fact that we are appalled byHollywood than at ourselves for indulging in it with our eyes and ears. Jesus asked what does light have to do with dark? If there is more dark than light, the light will be swallowed up by the dark? Have become so swallowed by dark? I say NO!!! We haven't. If we are still shocked then it's not too late. There is hope. But hope is not in changing Hollywood, it's in changing ourselves. Hope is in knowing that we can be a better servant of God by not allowing ourselves to be engulfed in the shadowy darkness of things in this world.

If I've hit a nerve then please forgive me, because I can't apologize.