Hidden Behind Lies and False Hopes....

Ever heard the famous excuse "But i can change him?" I'm sure you have because i firmly believe we've all believed it at one point or another. He has all the great qualities but i just don't like...and whatever that don't like is its usually the biggest and most important thing. He's not saved! For some odd reason we believe we can change this mans thinking. We believe if we just spend enough time with him, he'll convert over on his own because he see's the way we live our lives. When in reality its just the opposite, he will convert us before we EVER convert him! Plan and simply: You CAN'T pick and choose which parts of the bible you follow...and if you can you're not in like you thought you were. God's word says in 1 Cor. 15:33 "Do not be misled: 'Bad company corrupts good character.' " Okay, I know what you might be thinking...but he's really a good guy. He's there for me and loves me...he has all the qualities of a husband I've been looking for, he's just church hurt. It'll take him some time to get past that. But in reality "church hurt" has nothing to do with being saved or not. Does he pray, does he read and meditate on The word. Does he have any type of relationship with God? If the answer is no, you really have no business as a woman and child of God spending time with him. In 2 Cor. 6:14-17 it warns us against spending time or yoking up with the unbeliever. "Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with a unbeliever? Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, 'I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people'. Therefore, come out from their midst and be separate, says the LORD. And do not touch what is unclean; And i will welcome you." All over the bible you can find warnings against us yoking up with the unbeliever yet we ignore it. We play the as long as i do my part and live my life right I'll be okay but God's word doesn't give warnings just for the heck of it. Ever stop to realize that you aren't strong enough to fight off temptation. And I'll be willing to bet that any relationship you've ever had with a unsaved man you have compromised in one way or another. Which in return, without him ever saying it, proves to that man his thinking was right all along. There is no need to get saved because you've fallen into his, what i call, "word trap." His words sounded so good and he was so convincing that you ignored what you know all along: No matter what you say, I have no business in relationship with you. And if that man can get you to compromise on what he knows you shouldn't, everything else will be easy. So how about we as woman take a stand and realize the truth behind all of this: You will NOT change that man!! Stop wishing and a hoping and live your life the way you should! God's word also says "when a man findeth a wife, he findeth a good thing." So when you are found...make sure that man aligns himself with God and his word. If he doesn't he simply isn't there to find a wife, he's there to find a quick fix to his lust!! Don't fall for it! 

"The missing pieces"

Puzzles are one of my favorite things to do when i have enough free time! I believe i get it from my grandma, in fact I remember having "puzzle parties" at her house. Everyone comes together for a common purpose; to, with one piece at a time, put the puzzle together. We always got the challenging ones where all colors are relatively the same, and when finished it covers the dinner table. If you take the time to sit back and think about it, puzzles can be related to our lives in many ways!

If your good at puzzles and know what your doing you'll do the edges first. It gives you a better view as to where everything else goes. It is the boarder and what holds everything else together. And without it the puzzle would be incomplete and always lack something. Even worse it would fall apart. In the same sense, we must have a boarder set up, something that brings clarity to everything else. Something that holds the rest together and if it ever falls apart, you must fix it in order to continue. Our "boarder" is also known as our foundation. Your life must be set on the right foundation or everything can come tumbling down.

Another reason i love puzzles is because they remind me of the church. If you've ever had a puzzle that once you found the last piece and put it in its spot you look around and realize there is one more piece missing. No matter how small that piece is, your mind becomes completely consumed with finding that one missing piece. You don't care about the rest of the puzzle anymore because after all they are all in there place. I am grateful to God for revelation. I thank God for creating puzzles because for even the slightest amount of time i feel like i understand His thinking. For a moment, i feel more connected to God then ever.

You see God created puzzles for us to understand His word at another level. I don't understand our mindset. When God doesn't answer us right away, or do what we want we get all needy and selfish. We demand Him to answer and at times if He doesn't we say forget it and go back to our old ways. But God is saying "look at the puzzle, your in your place. What about them? What about the lost? I have to find them!" We must remember "the whole don't need a physician." We are already whole, and its time for us to take our mind and focus off of ourselves and place it where God's is...on the lost! The puzzle can not be completed by us thinking of ourselves.  God is calling us to come together with one purpose; getting the puzzle(the church) together one "piece" at a time. Focus on Him and His will and you'll never have to worry about your life again.

FIND THE MISSING PIECES!!!