Consumption

I've spent a lot of time in my life seeking my own comfort- a stability that I lost ever sense the world started spinning.  I'm constantly seeking it, but never finding anything that lasts the way I want it to.  I'm a sinful man, and in the end (where I've sinned and received my "reward"), I've found life is not about comfort.  Not in the temporary sense at least.  I will compare the sinful to the righteous, the wrong to the right in my life.  Sin's great promise was to bring death.  That's exactly what it did, and what it does still.  What satisfaction does stealing bring over earning?  If you've earned something, no one can ever take that away from you, but what you steal satisfies no eternal longing, only the temporary hunger.  God promises that if we focus on the eternal (Him) He will provide the temporary and He will bless us with eternity. 

I'm not a big fan of impersonally sharing my own sins, but if you want to know, please ask, the greatest redemption story is how how every one of our own personal mistakes is used to help us grow.

Speaking of growing.

Growing a cultivated relationship.  I'm reading Matthew 13, which is the parable of the sower- Jesus talks about a sower sowing seed, and wherever the seed falls it seems, bad stuff always happens to it- except in the good soil.  So, whether it's rocks, or birds, or thorns- the seed that is the Truth is being choked out of our lives.  A cultivated relationship with God is one where we work the soil, God shows us the rocks, the thorns, the birds in our life by showing us where the seed stops growing.  This is where we need to till the soil.  Remove those problems from our own hearts.  It's a parable, not because you can take whatever you want from it, but because if you seek to know it, you will in time.  God cries out for us to seek him past the obstacles of our lives- the lies we have been told, only through treasuring what God says (His Word and the seed from the parable) can we ever find the good soil that it needs to grow in.

I felt lately like I need to organize and develop my thoughts more, so this is a product of that.  I did this for you!