Limitations

Okay, when you see these pictures what do they make you feel?  If you were an unbeliever and you were  scrolling down Facebook (which is where I found most of them) and these popped up what would you do?

It might just be me but I don't like them. I feel like we are putting restrictions on God.

If you don't like this post on Facebook or Google plus or where ever else they might show up, your life will go horribly wrong and if you ignore we will show you pictures of you eternal damnation.  

I highly doubt that God is going to get back at you for not liking his post on Facebook.  He is not a teenage girl, guys.

I might be taking this a tad to far but I feel that there is more to this than a pictures on the social media.  It seems like we are always putting restrictions on God.

IF you do drugs you will go to hell.

If you get drunk you are condemned.

If you abort that baby, you granted a pass to eternal damnation.

If you go to that party, if you do this, if you don't do that.  

I am not saying that these are not bad things.  I am not saying that they are not sins.  and I am definitely not telling you to go try them.  But who are we to say, "You are condemned" Why are we so proud?
Was it so long ago that we forgot that we were once condemned to eternal damnation.  Instead of yelling "You are going to hell."  Tell them that there is a someone out there who will love them no matter what.  
You can't yell at someone and tell them that they need to fix themselves before they roast in hell, if they don't even know they are broken.


Sometime people need a hand up before they can be pushed forward.  

But I have careful, I don't want you guys to believe that you can never talk about hell.  Because it is real.  It there.  And that is where by nature we deserve to go.  People need to know there is a threat.  That Belief isn't all flowers and rainbows.

All I am really trying to say (and I got a bit off topic) is that we need to stop putting limitation on God.  He has none.   Sometime I think we have a hard time knowing what that is like.  God won't love you only when you like a post on Facebook, or if you stop doing drugs, or you apologies to that kid you made fun in 7th grade.  God loves you now.  People need to know this.   God loves you no matter what you do.  Sure, these make him happy and they prove that we love him back.   It isn't our job to condemn people, for we ourselves are condemned.  It is our job to lead people to God and know that only because of his limitless love and mercy we, errant humans, are saved.

Real Beauty

No wonder our  perception of beauty is so distorted.   

This is what people see as perfection.   These pictures of celebs or adds.  this is what everyone strives to be.

Why can't I look like that?

Why don't I have that shape?

I am not pretty.

I will never be pretty.

This is what adds like this instills.  Over 99.9% of all pictures found in adds are photo shopped.   Almost ever picture we see is a fake.  Yet we all look towards them for the vision of perfection.
Replays of the same question flt in and out of everyone's and.

Why?  Why do I not look like that?

And believe it or not, this is the question those add want you to ask, because they want you to believe that they have the answer.

You could be beautiful if you wore my cloths.

You could be beautiful if you wore my makeup.

 You could be beautiful if you ate my pill.

You could loved if you wore my underwear.

You could be thin if you starved yourself.

These are the answers they give.  To them we are not enough.  They want to fix us.

BUT WE ARE NOT BROKEN! 
 Into our mind they force this idea that we are not all that we should be.  We are are ugly, fat, unwanted, unloved, and useless. Ceaselessly they drill with pictures of what they want us to be perfection.



These are images they want us to strive for.  Little do we know that this is an unattainable goal.   These pictures are fake.  But they want us to be fake to.  Eat a little less (like a lot).  Wear the right cloths (T he ones that cost the most) and layer on the makeup.

We have to show them that they are fighting a loosing battle.  Yeah a little here and a little there.  But we are enough for ourselves we don't need the help of Photoshop, extreme dieting, or cases of makeup, to know that we are beautiful.  But to convince them, we must first convince ourselves.
Whenever it gets to you just remember you are perfect because God made you that way.

Psalm 139:14

New King James Version (NKJV)

14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;[a]
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.

Our souls should know it very well.  God doesn't make anything that isn't perfect.  We are real.  And that is more beautiful than any stick person out there.   

Darkest Night

In brightest day, In blackest night, 

No Evil shall escape my sight.  

Let those who worship evils might, 

beware my power, 

Green lanterns light.   

If you don't know what this is first of all you need help, secondly it is the oath for the Green Lantern Core.  

If you still don't get it...,.    

 and 

okay but what does this oath have to do with us?  I know that I don't have a magic ring powered by my will that can emit light that takes for of anything I can imagine.......

But it can pertain to us.   What if we took it in a sense not of DC superheroes but in a sense of God.   

What if we tell God that no matter what we will try to make the world the better place.  

What if we elected to make a promise, to mae an oath.  

In Brightest Day Lets Promise that when things are going well and everything is butterflies and rainbows.  When the day seems brightest, I won't forget that there is a battle going on.  I won't forget God.  I won't for get that people out there might not be having such a wonderful time.    

 In Blackest Night Lets make a promise that when things are hard.  When you are in the storm, when nothing seems like it can get worse, in your darkest hour.  Don't forget that there is God, waiting and wanting to help you through.  But also don't forget that when the night is darkest that is when people need a light.  Don't forget to shine.   

No Evil Shall Escape My Sight  Lets Promise That we will never let evil go by unchecked.  We will never stand by and say everyone does it so it isn't wrong.  We will never let evil run wild.  

Let Those Who Worship Evils Might, Beware My Power  Lets make a promise that we will be something the devil will be afraid of.  That we will strike fear into his hear because he know that we are not afraid to stand up and make a difference.  

Green Lanterns Light:  We will shine so bright with the light of God that the world will come to know  

So here is my oath 

In our brightest day, In Our blackest night, 

We will choose to still shine bright 

and stop evil within our sight 

help fix the wrongs and make them right.  

Let the devil shake at the sight, 

of  Believers and Gods great light   

Will you join God's Lantern Core and help light the way in a dark world?  We are called to be lights to lead a shinning path to the savior.  Let's lead the way in this dark night and if we all join together maybe one day we will look like this 

Wouldn't that be cool?