Something to ponder/think about...

Hello my friends,

I know it has been a while since I have updated my blog. I have been thinking about what to write and how to update what is going on in my life. I have been having a hard time ever since I have been back from Uganda, Africa. I look around at the many things this American has to offer. I look around and see the materialism in this culture. I look around and see people who are not willing to accept the free gift that Our Glorious God has to offer. I look around and see people who not willing to give up their comforts to go spend some time in the Nations. I look around and see people getting caught up within themselves. I look around and see a Nation who has many "things", but does not know how to use them all wisely. We are a Nation with many "things" but put the majority to waste. I would even say, how dare us! There are people around the world who are suffering. There are millions upon millions orphans in Africa. What these orphans and people suffer compares nothing to what we suffer here in America, they suffer a whole lot more than we do. We are so caught up in our desires and thinking how to satisfy ourselves. And we as a people fail to see things through the eyes of Our God. We fail to see the world through His beautiful eyes. We fail to feel what He feels. We fail to love what He loves. We even fail to go where He is (where He wants us to go). Yesterday I was walking into Kroger to get some things for the week and I got sick. It made me sick to see how much food "we" have and buy. I bet some of that food people buy, goes to waste. And to think there are orphans in Africa, and all over the world that are starving (really starving, not just saying it, but are experiencing it) I was reading in my quiet time last night Ephesians 3. I love the whole book of Ephesians; Paul was an amazing writer and preacher. I loved the whole chapter but a couple verses spoke out to me; 18 & 20. Verse 18 starts like this, "may have power, together with all saints, to grasp how wide, and long and high and deep is the love of Christ." Does not that just blow your mind? I mean if every person that truly followed Jesus Christ would really grasp how wide, long, high, and deep His Love is would we do things and say things differently? I would even say yes. Verse 20 starts like this, "Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us." Holy crap chicken! That verse is so amazing. Our God is able to do things that we cannot comprehend or even imagine. Just to think that God is able to be there for the orphans if nobody wants to. He is able to raise that generation to do great things for His Name & Kingdom. God is able to do immeasurably and incredible things if people refuse to get out of their comfort zones to go minister to the orphans & widows. He desires to make Himself known to everybody in the Nations. That is how BIG our God is. We are called to the light of the world. So, let all of us carry our torches and go out unto the Nations and be a light, even in the dark places. That is what I pray for myself and for others who read this. This post was just some thoughts on my mind. Please let me know what ya'll think. We need to be willing to leave our comfort zone (stepping out of the boat) and go and make Christ known among the Nations. More of my thoughts will come later on. Ciao!


~Chandler