Chrisitans, what are you doing with your life today?

Here's a quote from C. S. Lewis...

"Good an evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible."

Think about that really hard then think of how many times we've actually experienced this.

I've seen many who have fallen into this. I've seen young kids make one small, wrong decision in life and ends up in a really nasty pit. I actually started skipping school when I started going to community college...one day my friend decided that we were going to skip school just for one day...ended up missing half the semester. I realized how easy it was to skip school and still keep my grades up...until missing school turned into a really bad habit. I had to drop 2 of my classes that year because I knew I wasn't going to get out of the class with a passing grade. One bad decision = wasted semester = wasted money. But, that example is actually not that bad. Think of all the kids who got pregnant at the wrong time (not God's time). Think of all the time they would have to skip (growing up, being a teenager...10 years) to raise a child which most are not ready for that responsibility. Life, the teenage life, is literally over for them. For what? To look cool for your "friends"? To satisfy a worldly desire? Well, guess what? God knows all of that and he has a special plan just for you. Yes, even for pleasure. But you'll have to wait for HIS time. You have to or it just won't work out as great as God had planned it...and God's plans are super sweet. An example of God's sweet plan...

I got layed off from a job (normal for being in this industry) in the beginning of summer. I thought, cool...this is going to be a nice week to catch up with my World of Warcraft characters (online game), watch some movies and just relax. Well, the next day I received a call to go out to a job at the Bud plant in Fairfield. So that's where I worked for the whole summer and actually still dispatched there. That's a good thing...work is always a good thing. What I didn't like about it is the overtime work we had to do all summer. 10 hour days, 6 days a week for 4 months. Most of you will think that's a good thing...overtime money...lots of money. But I didn't want the money. There were many times that I wanted to just call-in because I was just tired from working so many hours but I knew that God gave this job for me and I need to be thankful that I have a job...thankful...can't take it for granted, so I worked all the days. I hated working so much...I missed a whole summer of Saturday morning hockey. But God had it all planned out. We found out mid-summer that we were going to have twins. Knowing this, we started looking for a bigger place. Well, this bigger place was actually bigger than we imagined. All the overtime work gave us enough money to save up for a down payment for an actual house. Trying to make this story short...we now have a house that is way bigger than our old duplex. All these, from making the small but right decision to go to work everyday. Little decision in the beginning of summer to having twins to having our own house. What a blessing! I never would've thought of having our own house by the end of this year...never even planned for anything this huge. This is the victory I never dreamed of.

Ah...so what's the point of all these? Do what God tells you to do today. Choose to follow God's plan today. You never know what He has planned for you. It might not make any sense at all right now but God's plan is always the greatest plan. Remember.

Papa Malabuyo