Enough said

With thanks to ASBO Jesus

The most adequate Christmas ever

God-Hello, Stan.
Stan-If you know who I am, then you know why I'm here.
God-I know everything.
Stan-I guess that makes two of us, huh?
         Look, Sir--
God-You, uh,unplugged the sun. 

Stan-Oh, sorry!

God-Look, I'm just gonna cut to the chase. I'm not gonna help you.
Stan-What? Then just help my family. You can't let them die.
God-Look, everything happens for a reason.
Stan-What reason could there be?
God-Stan, I'm gonna level with you.
         If your family isallowed to live,
         Stanford's tennis team will go oh-and-eight in conference play.
Stan-What?! 

God-I'm just messing with you.
         The point is, mysterious ways,
         have a little faith, I'm in the details...
         Now c'mon, you can be triceratops.
         I know he's your favorite.

Stan-We're out of time!
          Now send me back so I can save my family!
God-Not gonna happen. 

Stan-You have to!
God-Oh, okay, so you know better than me?
         Is that it? You're all-knowing?
Stan-No. Yes. I-
         I don't know. 

God-Exactly! You don't know.
         You can't know. So stop trying to control everything.
Stan-I don't do that.
God-Stan, you're holding a gun to God's head.
         I mean, I can't even think of a metaphor that's better than this.
Stan-But my family...! 

God-Stan,
         put the gun down and let My will be done.
Stan-I'm sorry.
God-So shines a good deed in a weary world.
Stan-What? 

God-That's all I wanted.
         One small act of humility.
         Okay, you can go back. 

Stan-Really?
God-Eh. It's my kid's birthday.
Stan-Thank you! Thank you! Oh! I'll never ask for anything again.
          .....There's just one more thing.

I wonder how many people know where this script comes from? It is from the season 3 of American Dad, episode 8, the Christmas special. American Dad is one of my favourite TV shows of all time, Seth McFarlane is an absolute genius when it comes to animated comedy. But not only are these shows funny, but they actually make you stop and think about the stories too. Some of the stories while on the surface seem quite crude, the beauty of the show is that they are actually very intelligent and well thought through.

While watching this episode last night I was thinking about what I may be able to write today and had no intention of writing about this at all. But the above scene seemed an absolute gem, it is a perfect opportunity to talk about something I often have a problem with. Arguing with God.

How many times do we pray and pray about God's plans for us, we say we are desperate to know what His plans are. We start off wanting to know, we seek and seek for the answer. But then when God finally starts to reveal His plans to us we stop and say, "Hang on a minute, how about we do this, or that first, how about we do this instead." I am sure I am not the only one who has done this, I am sure I am not the only one who has at times questioned the wisdom of what God is doing in our lives.

Yet we claim to be obedient followers of God, we claim to desire to follow His will and His plans no matter what. I am not saying that by questioning His plans we are being a bad Christian or that by having our own plans we are disobeying God. But if we are asking God for His plans and then when we hear them we decide we don't like them, have we totally given ourselves over to God.

It is never going to be easy to give God 100% of ourselves, we are only human, we can not be perfect. We need to understand that although we have our own, wants and desires it is only God who knows the real needs of our souls. God created us, He knows us better than we know ourselves and because of this His plans will be better for us.

So small

And Yet God Loves us and cares for us all.

This image is from a great Christian blog that I read regularly, I would recommend you check it out at ASBOJesus.

I'm not perfect but I'm his

Last night I was talking with some friends online when we realised we were all watching the same thing on TV. We all happened to be watching a comedian that we like, a guy called Tim Minchin. He is a comedian who predominantly does musical comedy, normally I do not like musical comedians as they can be quite frankly, rubbish. Anyway right at the end of the set we watched there is a song he sings which has the line "it's not perfect, but it's mine" in it. When I heard that I instantly had the thought of Jesus looking at me with a smile on his face saying "you're not perfect, but you're mine". It does not matter how hard we try, how long we have been on our Christian journey we will never be perfect. Time and again we will make mistakes and there will be aspects of our personality that need to be better. But Jesus does not need us to be perfect, what He wants is for us to love Him, follow Him and to try daily to be like Him. He knows we will fail, He knows we are not perfect. He died so that we may be forgiven for all our sins past, present and future.This is not a get out clause that allows us to do what we want all our lives and ask for forgiveness at the end of it. When we meet Him face to face we must stand and give account of our lives. Forgiveness is freely available but those who follow Christ in this life will have a treasure store in Heaven in the next. I know when I get there He will look at me, smile and say, "Oh Sam, follower of Christ, you're not perfect, but you are mine."

Before I finish this post I have some news about this blog. As from tomorrow I will be starting to blog on a Sunday too. There will be one post on a Sunday, every Sunday from now on. I don't want to say any more now as all details will be given in the first post tomorrow. I think it will be an exciting project I am about to undertake, I hope you will enjoy it too.