I just hit upon this cool Youtube video I found after my church’s Christmas kids program. One of the songs in the worship before all the kids came on to do a play, our leader sung “Desert Song”, which can be found sung by Hillsong online. I felt a need to listen to the song online, and came up with this little gem.

Brooke Fraser (Maybe?), was pregnant a few weeks before recording an album and went into labor at 23 weeks. After constant praying, the premature baby did not make it. Here she talks about going through that, and trusting that God can continue to provide for her, and that he is still in control.

I think that it is a really powerful message, that God is always in control. No matter what you are going through, there is always someone bigger than you that can take care of it. In Matthew 11:30, Jesus tells his disciples to follow him:

For my yoke is easy and my burden is light

No matter what, God can take of what ever you are going through. He created the world, and controls all the happens. He says that he will not give you something that you cannot handle, and that he will always be there when you need him.

In whatever you are going through, I sincerely hope that you will give it to God, and trust him and know that he is in control, and ready to bear the burden of any troubles in your life. Our Highchool pastor recently said that an important point to living for God is to let God handle the burdens in your life, so you can help others. And I think that the first step to living that out is to give your burdens to God, and to trust that he is going to be able to handle them 100%.

God Bless You, and may he take all of your burdens from you.

“Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe.” – Winston Churchill

I was recently reading quotations for a class of mine. We had to pick an inspirational quote. I really don’t write quotes down, so I browsed online for quotes. This one really hit my eye.

“This World of sin and woe.”

It is kind of crazy to think about it. A world full of sin and woe. Job lived in an extreme world of woe. In Job 1:13-18, Job is quickly stripped of all his property. From the mouths of 4 messengers came more bad news than most of us probably have experienced our entire life. The first passage reads:

“13 One day when Job’s sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother’s house, 14 a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby, 15 and the Sabeans attacked and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!” - (Job 1:13-15 NIV)

For a little backstory, Job was a very well of man in the land of Uz. In Job 1:8, God calls Job  ”blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil”. 

“He feared God and shunned evil”. 

That right there is VERY hard to do. Not only did Job probably have many things to worry about given all his property, he also had seven sons, and three daughters. Through all of these things that in the modern day would probably have us give in to the pressure of the world, he is called upright, blameless, and fearful of God, by God. 

In Job 1:6-12, God and Satan talk. 

“One day the angels [a] came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan [b] also came with them. 7 The LORD said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” 
      Satan answered the LORD, “From roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it.”

 8 Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.”

 9 ”Does Job fear God for nothing?” Satan replied. 10 ”Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. 11 But stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.”

 12 The LORD said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your hands, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.” 
      Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.” – (Job 1:6-12 NIV)

 

In God’s eyes, Job is a man who fears him, and has enough faith, that he will let Satan test him. In the next few passages, it tells about how Job loses his oxen and donkeys, his sheep, his camels, and his sons and daughters. Like I said, probably more bad news than most of us will ever hear in our lifetime. But through all this destruction that he hears about, he doesn’t yell and complain. Instead Job gets up, tore his robe, shaved his head, and began to worship God:

“Naked I came from my mother’s womb, 
       and naked I will depart. 

       The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; 
       may the name of the LORD be praised.” – (Job 1:20)

I think this truely shows a man whos entire life, his kids, his sheep, and his servants, have been devastated. Yet, the last verse in Job, Job 1:22 is:

22 In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing”

Through these first trials, Job never sinned out of anger. That right there is truely remarkable. The fact that most of his life is crumpled into tiny peices, Job still stayed faithful to God. Not only did he stay faithful to God, Job realised that God did not do anything wrong. 

Tying this back to the main point, both Job way back then, and We, now, live in a world that is filled with woe. Thousands of people live with absolutly nothing, and many others lose things close to them. But the fact is that God will never give you more than you can handle. Through all of the woes of this world of sin and woe, you will never have too much on your plate. 

“The Lord replied, “The years when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child, is when I carried you.” – Unknown

“If any place will not welcome you and the people refuse to listen to you, when you leave, shake its dust off your feet as a testimony against them.” (Mark 6:11 ISV)

Welcome to my blog. I am a teenage technical savy student. I’ve been using computers my entire life and have used that in order to help many places including my church. I am a Protestant Christian in San Diego. I do the audio/video stuff for my church, mainly the High School Ministry.

Background

I began blogging about technology in 2007, and have shifted back and forth between different blogs for awhile since. Now I have made my permanent residence at http://chacha102.com, where I blog about things like Technology. If you are also into that, please go take a look.

I am also very into Social Media. This is also cool because most of my church uses Facebook, and my pastors use Twitter. I do however, extremely out tweet them on Twitter, and have probably gotten myself unfollowed, due to all my tweeting. You can find all of those social media links at the bottom of my page.

So what is this about?

This blog is about sharing things that really I think God has put on my heart to talk about. It is a very religious blog, so go elsewhere if you feel akward about talking religiously.

I hope you enjoy it. I will probably begin my next postings sometime this week, but it will probably become a weekly blog. Hope you enjoy it!