#grantmewisdom

[mushali]

The Bible taught me a lot, Lord please forgive me. You’re the only one who can correct how I’m living.🙏🏾 . . #dearlord #pleasehelpme #iwantyou #inmylife #daily #ineedyourstrength #ineedyoursupport #ihavefaith #inyou #grantmewisdom #wisdom#clarity #makemyvisionreality #lifeisnothingwithoutyou #camealongway #alwaysforward #neverbackdown #neverbackwards (at God's Blessings)

[let-it-be-what-it-is]

Ready for tonight! ❤️ #meeting #grantmeserenity #grantmecourage #grantmewisdom #onlyfortoday #serenityprayer

[lovesoptimist]

This proverb leaves me something to ponder. #grantmewisdom

[grantmewisdom]

Has Death Lost Its Sting?

I'm no stranger to sarcasm and wit, in fact, I often must refrain myself to keep from appearing too overly pessimistic. But I wonder, are there some things that shouldn't be touched? 

This past weekend was Easter, and I saw a few Jesus memes on facebook. One of the memes is the picture of Jesus with the children. The meme reads "So then I was all like "Mom, chill out, I'll be back in like 3 days."" Obviously without thinking, I chuckled to myself. Let's not deny it, it's funny. But days later, I'm still thinking about the meme, and writing a blog post about it and I ask myself "should I be laughing at this?" I don't mean to criticize or condemn my facebook friends for laughing and sharing these memes, but let's not forget what Jesus had to go through to pay for our sins. Yea, it's funny and we can laugh about it now, but if I were Jesus, I probably wouldn't laugh about it with you. But maybe He would... because there's also the idea that humor is the best way to mourn.

[grantmewisdom]

Good vs Good

Most people know the difference between good and bad, although it’s not always black and white, we have some sort of notification system in our head because it’s so engrained in us. It’s just often times we choose to ignore it. But as Christians that should be a given. So what happens when something isn’t necessarily bad, but you get a bunch of good choices and you have to pick the best one? What happens when it’s good vs good?

In high school we had this history teacher, who I would say was interesting to say the least. He wore a fanny pack, carried knives, and had the chest hair of a werewolf. He almost always wore flannel with a vest and you could probably find every article of clothing he owned at REI. But he also graduated from Columbia University and if I remember correctly, was at some point a lawyer… I think. In any case, although he was a bit peculiar, he was probably brilliant. More so than any other teacher I’ve met. And as much as I respected him, I very much despised his teaching methods.

As someone who normally gets by by absorbing the information during lecture and rarely studies the information in a textbook, I freaking hated this man. His tests were always entirely multiple choice and always taken on a scantron sheet. You might be thinking that multiple choice would be easier, but NOPE, it wasn’t. It was like the question read,

#14 What is red?

a. blood b. an apple c. a firetruck d. a ruby

and you had to pick the answer from that… like *jackie chan what? meme*

Just like multiple choice questions that we once considered to be easy become more difficult, the decisions we make as Christians also becomes more difficult. We should no longer choose between drinking and not drinking, or smoking and not smoking. We should be wondering if we should spend that extra time getting that six pack or using that time to study God’s word. We should be deciding whether to watch the football game with our friends or go to bible study. And I’m not saying that being physically fit or hanging out with friends is bad, it's just essentially, it boils down to how our time could be best spent to bring not only ourselves closer to God, but also how we could best bring other people closer to God. What is most important to you? Because that answer, is your god… or God.