Following Jesus is Irony.

Following Jesus is irony. Always has been.
Be last to be first.
Give to receive.
Be weak to be strong.

Get under His freedom to get over yourself.
As a follower of Jesus, I will never truly affect the world
with His love until I get over my own desires and needs,
my desperation and petty bickering--anything I cling to in order
to feel better--to feel freer.

I must swallow my pride.
Forget what I believe I deserve.
And get over myself.
Resist the world's freedoms.
Embrace God's parameters.
Allow myself to be accountable and restricted.
Choose to go without every little thing I want.
Strengthen my character.
Determine where I am incorrect.
Humble myself.
Stop manipulating God's way to look like my preferences
and choose His plan--His way--
for every detail.

If I can just deal with life and allow God to use those dealings to transform me into the right person--the explosive person,
the person with gun powder in my veins--
then the noise I make will be worth hearing.
The fire that is seen in my life will scorch the room.
The substance of my life will pierce the hearts of those around me.

And where I stand, I will always leave a mark.



I can't take credit for this writing hah it's just a section that hit me while reading Mark Steeles book flashBANG - how i got over myself. pretty much a really good book, i normally never read but when a long road trip comes along i always like to find a good motivational or mind/thought opening books on God, life and love. I really liked this book and I would recommend reading it, as it's full of amazing life stories of this guy, some that are even hard to believe cuz it's just soo insane but in the end shows how God makes best of these things. As I'm waiting to get sent off to boot camp and pretty much be gone for 8 months I'm really trying to prepare myself and really just live a life fully for Christ, yes, it's hard. hah so hard to give up EVERYTHING, but almost foolish not to, wait not almost, let me excerpt VERY FOOLISH not to give it all up and live your life fully and right with God, but like the title says it's all very ironic hah. You don't want to give up all these things becuase you enjoy them and they are fun, but aren't fully fullfilling, but if you actually do it and give up these things, Gods going to bring you other things and WILL be full filling and fun, anyways this is too long and i'm at work supposed to be like working, hah. peace in the middle east.