His words are Spirit and Life, mine are sometimes just hot air

God has a sense of humour...last night i deliberately set my alarm later than usual (i basically gave myself just enough time to get ready and leave the house), and i said to myself 'if he wants me up any earlier than that, He's gonna have to wake me up himself' - little did i know they were such dangerous words...so God and his funny bone took it as a challenge and decided to wake me up bright and early, and that lovely lie-in went out the window....but i guess i cant complain coz we had a good chat.

so as we were talking, i came to a point of asking God for something, and nearly made one of those little promises like "if you do this, i'll do that"... thing is i didnt even need to because i know God does so much for me that even if i tried to repay him or give him something He always outgives me. but yet in the past i deluded myself in thinking that somehow those little bargins made sense. the problem is such commitments are easily set aside when the crisis is over...im digressing...ok so these two guys in the bible (who i didnt even know existed till about an hour ago) did something similar - Johanan and Jezaniah, and they turned out to be one of the what-not-to-do examples in the bible...back in the day you couldnt just talk to God directly so people would ask prophets to go speak to him, or would wait for prophets to deliver whatever message God wanted to tell them. so these two sent Jeremiah to go ask God what to do with the promise of obedience in return for safety. but when he got back (with quite a detailed reply that could have been easily followed btw) they started saying the prophet was a liar.... its funny when i think of things iv done like ask God to speak to me, then when he says something i didnt want to hear i start thinking i was the one who made it up or find excuses for not doing it. interesting init. God's escape from the trouble i sometimes get myself into is never what i think it might be, but its always the right way.

Two other people i just found out about this morning are Nadab and Abihu. Deep right! think it shows the importance of obeying exactly how God says. thankfully we are no longer bound by law or i would be long-gone thats for sure. i love imagining the situation in the bible. all that could be recorded was 'and Aaron was silent' how much in shock Aaron was would have been quite something to see...oh yer the other day at church this preacher said something like when he gets to heaven he's going to go to the blockbusters and watch a certain scene from the bible. for real, if there is one there, i would like to see the closeup of Aarons face at this point.lol...but anyway i digress again...my revelation today is not to be fast in making promises, letting go of a sometimes casual attitude towards God, and paying more attention to His detail.

Peace, Love and Pringles
xx

ahh!!!! i cant choose which verse to end with - so heres a multiple choice for ya:
Ecclesiastes 5:1-4

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