Blog 08-31-2009
Monday
PRaP 08-31-2009
“The Center”
Where is the center of your being? Do you have one? Well we all have one and it could be your spouse, or your children, or your job. As children our center was playtime and fun stuff. As teenagers it could be games and girlfriends and boyfriends or getting high with said girlfriends or boyfriends. Maybe the center for you is music or cars. For some it is alcohol and drugs and for others it is pain and suffering. I like a good pizza and a rootbeer as well as some candies but I don’t call them the center of my being. The choir already knows where I am going with this PRaP today, so choir share this with someone who doesn’t. Some of those things we make the center aren’t bad but they aren’t where the center should be because Christ is where our center should be and if He is the center those good things follow right along and sometimes those bad ones try to follow but are eventually destroyed through faith in Christ. When I was a young man money, alcohol and drugs were the center of my being and then women and pain and sorry were to follow. Now I am not saying everything I did on my past was bad there was some good but it was an empty good, it had no meaning and was not fulfilling. But when I began to make Christ the center, things began to change. For me, God immediately stripped away all of the things that were not of Him and then He slowly began to change me. Well some would say I changed very quickly but that was just the outside. I am not saying I jumped from what I was then to who I am now because it just didn’t work that way. Some things changed instantaneously but I had to grow to the Center. Not an easy thing I assure you. Now 10 years into my new life there is peace in my life because the center of my life is truly Christ and I am not just saying I know Christ but I am saying that I know that I know that I know He is the Center and I can depend on Him for all things. Is He the Center of your life? Do you want to get this peace? Oh I am by no means perfect I still make mistakes but when I do make them I know where to go to get the forgiveness and I know where to go to get back on the right path. Do you want some of this? I promise that once you get there you will not want anything else. There is no drug that will make you feel this way and there is no amount of alcohol you can consume to be here and there are no manmade things that can equal the peace, love, and joy I have in Christ. You want to know more? Contact the person that gave you this today and ask, seek, and knock and this door will be opened for you and after you walk in. Well that will be up to you.
Key Verse:
Philippians 3:8
What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ
Philippians 3:7-9 (in Context) Philippians 3 (Whole Chapter)
Jesus Bless,
Pastor Steve
