Most of my days contain a look at the sports section of the BBC Website. As an avid Football & Formula One fan I like to keep up with all the latest news and particularly enjoy reading the blogs and articles on there.
Today a certain blog lept out at me. It was Jake Humphries' blog. I have a soft spot for Jake and not just because he presents the Formula One on BBC but also because he used to present Children's BBC in his younger days and I remember him from that. I think anything that brings you back to your childhood, before you fully understand this fascinating but dark world, is something we treasure.
There was a quote on his blog that I really liked. It was from one of the commentators who had recently been replaced and whom Jake was saying farewell too. He said this when Jake confided in him about his worry about being the new presenter when the BBC started showing the F1 two years ago.
"We can both either have an easy life or an exciting life and I know which one I want!"
Jonathan Legard
This totally related to how I had been feeling today. My life is not perfect because I am a Christian. Yes, it is much better than it was before but bad things still happen and I am just as susceptible to sin as any other human.
God was Speaking to me about stuff I had been doing wrong and also about something that happened a few years ago which I still haven't fully dealt with.
I realised that in a lot of my mistakes it is down to me thinking I know better than God. Me choosing my own path and thinking that because I feel good about it and it feels right that it is therefore the right thing to do.
The problem with that is this:-
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things
and beyond cure.
Who can understand it?
Because of the sin that is in us all because we are imperfect people, our hearts are selfish and want what is best for us. God thinks differently than us because He is totally unselfish and wants what is truly best for us. You see, selfishness blinds our hearts to the long term consequences of our actions. We want what is best now but thankfully we can be sure that when we trust God with our lives He gives what is the best in every way.
Matthew 7:11
If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
This post has dragged on but my final point goes back to the quote. Often our selfish choices are simply us choosing the easy way. But the exciting way is so much better! I believe it is totally worth it to sacrifice a bit of comfort & security to go into the unknown and maybe be blessed from it.
We have this choice when it comes to Salvation. The easy way is to do nothing and just hope you will go to Heaven. The exciting way is to trust God and give our lives to Him, accepting our way is wrong.
And we can be sure it is worth it because as Jesus says in John 10:10
'The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.'
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