Attention Please

I am not someone to be taking advice from.  If you are reading this, it must be for the mere fact that my life has to be more interesting than yours at this very moment or there is nothing else to do (or you clicked on my twitter link, sucker).

It could also mean you are someone close to me trying to figure out what is going on in this head of mine.  I can tell you now; it is like a circus in there.  There are signs all over the place that say “caution, enter at your own risk.”

I am, at this point, a 29 year old single man whose longest relationship has been with some of the very best friends anyone could ever have.  And there have been times that I have even messed that up.  However, that is the thing about true friends; they forgive you when you don’t deserve it.  I’ll go into more detail about friendship later.

This is merely a warning, that what I talk about from this point on is not advice.  You want advice, look toward Jesus.  He has better advice then I nor any dusty book on the shelf could ever offer.  You think He isn’t listening.  Horse radish (this is my attempt at not cursing in my writing)!  He is bigger than anything you can imagine and MAYBE he is just not answering in the way you want Him to or in a particular order that you want.

There is a passage in the Bible when these men dragged this guy ON HIS BED so that Jesus can heal him and walk again.  However, the first thing Jesus did rather than heal him was forgive him (true story, Matthew 9.2).  Jesus did something other than what that man wanted.  He does that a lot in mine and a lot of other’s lives.

This is understandable though.  We are, admittedly or not, a selfish creation.  Everything we do is for selfish reasons.  I’ll be the first to admit that I am a very selfish person.  Maybe not with financial things or physical, but emotionally I am selfish.  I take what I want and disregard others in return.

Some even become “christian” just for their own personal gain.  They do it because they have nowhere else to go so they seek a better life, they want the attention of someone or others or they are just caught up in the entertainment of what happens on Sunday mornings and enjoy it.  None of which has to do with being closer to Jesus or even about seeking forgiveness.  It is for the attention of others. 

Forgiveness is the last thing we want because all of us think we are perfect and need no change at all.

So the things I type from here forth are not meant to be “inspirational” or the ‘answer” to a problem.  It is more for the reflection of my life and what I can learn from it by typing it out… a selfish reason.

By the way, after Jesus got into it with a bunch smart a’s, he healed the paralytic. 

However, my favorite part of the whole passage?  He called the paralytic ‘son’ from the very beginning of it all.