Making Time for God?

As most of you may know this past year I took a year off to save up some money to attend college. I have learned so much in this past year about so many different aspects on life. I have learned that even though coffee is such a simple thing, it really bothers a lot of people if it is made wrong. I have also learned that people get mad over some of the strangest things. This year has been a blessing and a curse, it’s been a blessing so much more than a curse just to be clear. The blessing aspect of this past year is so incredible, my relationship with God has grown and strengthen in many ways; some good, some bad, some scary, some very emotional, and some very inspiring. The curse aspect of this past year is that I have learned a lot of things about myself that I really don’t like. I have grown to lose patience that I once had, I have a couple more things that I have developed but don’t want to make the focus negative. My job has really taught me a lot more then I once knew about people. I love to work/deal/talk/be with people. My self-control has been beaten and brutalized this past year, but because of that I am stronger with it then I have ever been. Now you might be wondering why I titled this note ‘making time for God?’ when in the first half I didn’t really touch on it at all. Time is very precious thing in life, it is what life is, time on earth. We schedule are time accordingly to things we have to do, or the things that are most important. For Example College, for the next two years I will be working very hard at doing my best in school, so I can get a good education and a good career.When people tell me that they are so busy with life, it makes me think about how much time we put into so many different things; work, school, sports, family, friends, and most importantly God. Think about God though, is God something we really need to make time for? To schedule Him in, in our busy lives. We really need to think about this concept of making time for God. God is the creator of us, of the world, and of time itself. What I say now sounds negative but when you read all of this, it is nothing but positive, eye-opening, and uplifting. The idea of making time for God really does blow my mind. Someone who loves me so much to give me all of this; Love, Grace, Life, Family, Friends, Music, and the most beautiful and precious thing ever, Jesus! I have been thinking of how we all schedule our time but we want to make sure that we have our personal time for God. I’m not saying that is bad at all, because it’s one of the best ideas in the world. Pure devotion with God is the most powerful and beautiful thing. It’s what other things we do in life that makes the big difference. I have heard that God should be the most important thing in our lives and our own personal schedules. I truly believe that God should be the most important aspect of our lives completely. Our lists of importance usually contains of this (not in any specific order): God, family, work, school, friends, and other small things we enjoy doing. I want us all to think about all the time we put into all of these things, I’m not saying that these aren’t important. They all have major importance in our lives. Work; we all need to money to make a living and to support our families. School; I can’t say for everyone but I know that is important for a lot of people to have a good education. Family and friends are very important in my life, a lot of my friends are my family, maybe not blood but I don’t think of them as just friends, but closer than just friends, anyways that’s a whole different topic. What I want to get to is that all of this we can have God in them. With all these things we do we can have God in them. This might be confusing or this might not make much sense at all, but let me explain. I will give you an example. In work, I don’t go in at 7 then when the end of my shift comes I don’t then try to be Jesus, I want to live like Jesus when I wake up until I go to bed. It might not be a specific time for God, like devos or “church” but it’s my life, and I’m going to live it all for Him. When I’m at work I’m going to strive to live like Jesus, to love like Him, to forgive like Him, to be able to see people for who they can be instead of by what they’ve done. I have done things in my past that I am not proud of but because of Jesus and his genuine love and grace, I am forgiven. I try not to judge anyone anymore because no one is perfect and it’s very wrong for me to judge someone because of what they have done. Anyways I’m getting off of the main point again, it’s funny because I try to write one note, and come out of it with about 6 more ideas for new notes. Where was I, Jesus should be a part of everything; work, school, home, family, friends, everything. One thing that I am encouraged and blown away by with Jesus was his devotion. Even though He was God in the flesh, He humbled himself and devoted time to God, waking up in the early morning, to go out and talk with God. He would go off alone any time in the day and just talk with God. It is so amazing, to me that with all the stuff that was going on at the time of His life, He made God apart of His life. I do want to apologize for this note, because it is really confusing and I jump around a lot, but I’m just typing while am thinking. So if you’re confused, I’m sorry, it wasn’t my intention to confuse anyone, I just wanted to share some of my thoughts (some as in a lot of my thoughts). I want everyone to know that we can make time for God, that’s not bad at all, it’s so awesome, but also we can strive to live each day like Jesus. We will have such more meaningful lives and a much deeper relationship with our Creator. I am going to try something new and I am going to type out a prayer in this message.Dear God Thank you for Jesus, thank you so much Jesus for your unending love and your amazing grace. Thank you so much God for setting us free from our sin. We know that we have so much sin in our lives but we thank you God for looking past that, we thank you so much for forgiving us of our sin. We know that we are not perfect people but God; you love us just the way we are, and you love us way to much to let us stay that way. It amazes me everyday Lord, the works that you do, that you want us; you want us to be with you. God you intrigue me more and more. Everything I learn about you I just want to learn more. The love that I feel from you is life changing. I don’t want to be who I used to be. I want to be who you want me to be, who you created me to be. To live with you in perfect harmony, show me God how to love like you, Love me Lord, because I can’t get enough of you. Fill me God with your spirit. God I know you’re there, I know that you hear me. Thank you for the relationship that we have. Thank you God for the Love that you have placed inside me, that I can talk to people so easily. Lord I pray that you will use me where ever you need me God. Give me the opportunities to Live and Love like you. Lord I want to be like you, I know that in this life I won’t ever make it but God, that’s what our faith is all about. Striving to be like your Son. Jesus you amaze me over and over again. Jesus you don’t hold our pasts against us, but you helps us to know that what we have done isn’t right, but we can move on to bigger and better things, to live in tune with you. God thank you so much for this life that I get to live. For the people in my life that help me every day. I used to be scared of the faith, I was scared because of my social acceptance but I’m realizing more and more that it just doesn’t matter. I love you Lord! I want the world to know. That I am not ashamed of whom I am, who you created me to be. Thank you Jesus for the cross and thank you for the Love and Grace that kept you there. In the name of Jesus Amen.Thank you for reading, I hope that you have been encouraged by this note, I know that I jump around a lot but know that we can make all the time for Jesus in our lives because He is more important than anything. Jesus we love you and we thank you for what you have done in our lives, but also what you have planned for us in our futures.

That We May All Be One!!

The Lord is praying for his Church, that they may all be One! That WE may all be one in Christ Jesus. For some of you that may not know there is a song that is called “That they may all be One” it is a song that talks about Unity in the Church and also in the World. Unity is something that I love in my life, it makes me feel like I know that there are so many other people that believe the same thing I do, and that is that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. And that he came to this earth to be the greatest examples that the human race needed, but we were ignorant and ignored his greatness and his love and we nailed him to a cross. He didn’t have to die for us, but he did because he loves us so much. One thing that Jesus prayed to God for was that all of us would be one…John 17:20-2220"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one Jesus died for me, but not just for me, but for everyone in this world. I am a sinner, but the thing is, we are all sinners, like it or not, were all sinners, but Jesus gave us another chance to be with him for ever and ever. Jesus wants us all to be one and realize that we are all one, no one is better or greater then anyone else. One thing that I have seen in the church in the past couple years have been the arguments between the different denominations. For example instruments. I do understand that there is a big respect issue here and I don’t mean to offend anyone, but for me When Jesus prayed to his father, he prayed that We may all Be one, he wants all of us in this world to look to him and love him and to follow him. He didn’t pray for us to argue with one another on our point of views, I just don’t really feel the love at all between the churches when we talk about “how its wrong to use instruments in the church” and the other issues that have been brought up. Jesus wants us to Love Him and to Follow him and to Be Baptized. I don’t believe that Jesus would want his children to fight and argue over things that wouldn’t be a problem if people didn’t make them problems. Unity is Love and Being one with one another. Jesus Loves me, and Jesus Loves You, There is nothing that we can do as humans to make God Love us any less. We need to get rid of our differences we need to look past our past problems, and we need to start showing love to one another, not just our brothers and sisters in the church, but to our brothers and sisters in this World, we are all sons and daughters of God. We need to stop fighting and arguing about our differences and start acting like a family, not just any family, Gods Family, there is nothing I love more in this world then My Relationship with Jesus Christ, he has given me so much, and I do not deserve any of it, he provides me with all I Need in Life. I know once again I jump to topic to topic but the this jist of this note is that we need to start loving each other, we cannot keep making differences between the churches. Once again I apologize if I have offended anyone with this note, once again I am just speaking my mind, my intentions were not to offend but to show the love in my life that Jesus Christ has given me, and has worked through me, there is nothing I want more in this world, then for all of Gods children to just love him, look to him for guidance, and believe and have Faith in Jesus Christ, My Lord.The Lord is Praying for his Church that they may all be One, The Lord is praying for the WORLD, that WE may all be ONE. God Bless May Jesus work through you and in you for all the days of your life.In Him;Jordan Jones You Can't Spell 'Unity' without 'U'

What Do You Put Your Faith Into…?

So I was just trying to write another note before this one, but of course my stupid computer froze and the note didn’t post, so that was really annoying for me. But then it gave me another idea for another note. So I have been thinking a lot this past year, and I know that, that might come as a shock to you, but ya. Anyways I have been thinking a lot this past year about, well about lots of stuff, how to be a better person, how to build unity between not specific churches but the church in general, and a lot more stuff. But one thing that fits really well with what just happened to me with my computer is one thing that backs up my recent thoughts of…what do we as humans put our faith into? (hence the title ‘what do you put your faith into…?’) but ya I have been realizing more and more that we as humans put so much faith into technology and its unbelievable how much we do and don’t even think about it. Today I woke up went on the computer before I left to work, did I think about the computer not working for me…no because I had faith in the computer that it would work. But the thing is technology is truly brilliant, but it doesn’t always work. I had just finished writing that note and it took me about a good 20 minutes, and I was happy with the out come but then I clicked ‘Post’ and hey, what do you know, my computer froze. We put so much faith into technology it just amazes me. Another example a couple months ago I was visiting my brother and I went up the elevator to go to his room, I went in, clicked the floor number, and there I went, but the thing is I didn’t even stop to think that “this thing may not bring me to where I want to go”. That elevator could’ve stopped and I could’ve been stuck for a very long time. While I am writing this I really hope that my stupid computer doesn’t freeze again. One thing that I have thought about is that today’s technology it all costs money, and for faster and more convenience, it costs even more money. The things we buy, we have faith that it will work for us. The thing is we can spend so much money and put so much faith into having these things, but for me, I do know that I do depend to much on technology and I shouldn’t have to. With Jesus, I have faith in him that he will provide me with all I need in life, sometimes we doubt God because it feels like he doesn’t answer our prayers when we don’t get what we want, but that is us being impatient and us not realizing that God will provide in his time, not our rushing/impatient time. If we were to write down all the things that we Need in life and then another list of all the things we Want in life, it would come down to us having so many Wants and not as many Needs as we first thought. For me I have always though I needed a faster computer, but the thing is I don’t really need a fast computer, it would be nice, but I don’t need it, its more of a want in my life. For me I have never been as happy as I have been this past year, because I have chosen to let Jesus work in my life and take control of me, and I’m not here to try to make my self sound like such an amazing person and try to make it seem like I am better then you, because trust me…I’m not. We are all the same, we are all sinners. But Jesus still loves us all so very much. And my hope and prayer is that who ever actually takes time to read it down to this part, that I pray that you put your faith into Jesus, because trust me…you wont be sorry for it. My Relationship with Jesus is the best thing in my life. I know that I do jump around to subject to subject but that’s what just was on my mind, I hope that there was some sort of connection between this for you. I hope that you enjoyed what I had to say, if you didn’t like what I had to say or didn’t agree with what I had to say, I just want you to know that I didn’t mean for this to offend anyone, this was just one of the many thoughts that I have had, and things in my life that are important to me, so I am sorry incase I offended anyone from this. May you let God work in your lives and may you walk in the footsteps of Jesus.God Loves You In Him;Jordan Jones