Quotes that made me think.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

C. S. Lewis

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I believe in the sun even if it isn't shining. I believe in love even when I am alone. I believe in God even when He is silent.

Unknown
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Here, then, is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy.

R. C. Sproul
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Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.

Isaac Newton
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"...Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same..."

And sometimes you don't want to admit that you have to do something hard because it's right. And even more times you do what is wrong because it is easy.

I pray I can do the hard, right thing instead of the wrong, easy thing.

"But He said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong."
2 Corinthians 12:9-10

I know that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me even if it is also the hardest thing.

Recently while listening to the Prince of Egypt Soundtrack on a drive home with a friend I was struck by the relationship between Moses and Ramses, the Pharaoh. They grew up as members of the same family. They lived together and I would imagine had many good memories with one another. Moses' task was difficult but many overlook a major element that made it so difficult; his love not only for Ramses but also for the Egyptian people. He believed that they were his true family for the majority of his life and then all that he knew was turned upside down. I can't imagine how that must have felt. To become your family's complete enemy. Not only to have to leave them but to go completely against them and bring them pain and suffering.

The song above I think probably voices some of the feelings that both brothers were feeling.

Moses: And even now I wish that God had chose another, standing as your foe on his behave. This is the last thing that I wanted this was my home. All this pain and devestation how it tortures me inside. All the innocent who suffer from your stubbornness and pride. Why must you call down another blow? Let my people go!

Ramses: You who I call brother how have you come to hate me so, is this what you wanted?

Moses begging with Ramses to let his people go was not only to fill the order that he received from God but to stop the suffering that was brought upon the people from Ramses disobedience. He didn't want to see them suffer, that must of been so very difficult to watch.
I can't imagine that Ramses didn't feel betrayed by his brother, Moses. And frankly I can see why he wouldn't take his brother's request seriously. If my brother left home and was thought to be dead and then came back demanding that I release all of my livelihood because a god that I didn't believe in commanded it, I probably would have told him 'no' as well. Maybe some of his rebellion against Moses which in essence was against God was brought on by sibling rivalry. Maybe one day we will know for sure.

Moses is a key example of how God requires obedience from us. I am sure that Moses would have chosen any other way to have God free the Children of Israel. God chose the way that required faith and complete obedience from Moses no matter what he was feeling. I pray that I would be obedient like Moses. Listening to God's voice and doing what He commands me even when it is one of the last things that I want to do.

Say

"Take all your so called problems

Better put them in quotations...

Living up the same old moment

Knowing you'd be better off instead

If you could only

Say what you need to say..

Have no fear for giving in
Have no fear for giving over

You better know that in the end

It's better to say too much

Than never to say what you need to say again...

...Even if your hands are shaking

And your faith is broken

Even if your eyes are closing

Do it with a heart wide open

Say what you need to say..."

I have decided to say what I need to say via this blog. I have always loved writing and I don't really have a place to just voice all the things that are floating around in my head. I don't have a plan for this blog, knowing myself it will definitely be random.

I think the message of the song that I posted is a good thought. It can be good to say what you need to say, although there are more times when it is better to be silent instead of to speak. I think many people struggle in knowing when to speak up and when to let silence prevail. God says that the tongue is unruly and asks who can tame it. I definitely know that I have not tamed mine. I greatly look forward to The Day when I will have a perfect tongue when I am with my Savior. Until that day I will do my best to "live peaceably with all men." by using and not using my words.