Dominion Over Our Planet

When God created man, He gave us dominion over all the fish in the sea and the birds of the air.  See Genesis 1:26-31.  Most people don’t take that seriously.

When you finish drinking your soda pop, do you pitch it?  Where?  In your back seat?  Out the window?  Our environment is filling up with garbage.  Our streets look trashy.  God Blessed up by telling us we can rule over the animals.  We are Blessed with a conscience and a brain although most people don’t use it.

When riding around the country, I notice the trash in a city, maybe because the one I live in doesn’t get much attention.  I know a guy that saw an older man in a parking lot put a plastic bottle on the ground knowing he was going to leave it there as trash.  So, this guy pointed it out to him saying, “mister, you forgot this bottle.”  The older man said that he didn’t want it.  So the guy said, “ok, then take it home with you and put it in the trash.”  The older guy got huffy and took it and threw it in his car and left.

Maybe we should all do something like that.  If we all take care of our trash, maybe our planet will last longer and look nicer.  Don’t throw trash out of your car.  Dispose of it properly.

God didn’t create a planet with trash on it already.  We created our own garbage.  We need to take care of it.  How do you dispose of your trash in your car?

The Lifter of My Head

Do you take pride in everything you do?  In your work?  In your car?  In your house?  Are you prideful?  Where should you draw the line between being prideful and taking pride in your work?

When I do a good job, I am proud of my self.  I have accomplished a task.  I have finished that task and I have done a good job.  Does that make me prideful?  Not necessarily.  Did I brag about it to all my coworkers?  Did I call up all my friends and tell them about what I did?  Sometimes we need to tell someone about a job that we did, but it should only be used as a tool.  Are you training someone?  Are you teaching someone?  Using your job as an example to others may not be being prideful.

But if you run around telling every body about what happened just so they will tell you that you did a good job, then that’s bragging.  That’s being prideful, or being full of your self.  Are you the topic of conversion?  You shouldn’t be. A great listener will be welcomed by every one.  If you only brag about yourself, people will avoid you when they see you coming.  In Psalm 3:3, it tells me that God is the one who holds my head high.  He is the one to give me a pat on the back, not my friends after bragging to them.

Every thing you do should be to glorify God.  Let God be the One who brags about you.

Idols

Do you put idols before God?  One of the commandments states that,”thou shall have no gods before me.”

When you get a raise, do you thank God for it?  Or do you think, ‘I did it.’  When you clean your house, do you say ,’I do a great job?’  Or do you thank God for giving you strength to clean the house. Do you look at the sun and moon and worship it?

 Money can be a idol.  Your house can be an idol.  Some people worship the sun and moon.  These things should not take preference over our Father God.  God gives and God takes away. He created everything.  I must give Him the glory for all that I have.  I can do nothing on my own.  He created me and He gets the Glory.

Glory to God!

Coincidence

When something good happens do you attribute it to luck or being in the right place at the right time?  Acutally, it has nothing to do with luck.  God tells us in the Bible that He has a plan for our lives, a plan for good and not for evil, to give us a future and hope.  I believe that.

I have a choice in my life. I choose my steps.  But because I have given my life to Jesus, I believe He is there directing my path.  Do I still have a choice?  Yes!  I choose Jesus.  I believe He is guiding me.  When I took my son to the park, I directed him of where to go.  He wanted to go to the park but I directed his path.

It is the same with Jesus.  I choose where I want to go and He directs my path.  If I want to go to the grocery and get in an accident on the way there, is that Jesus not protecting me?  No.  He is always with me and protecting me.  My car may get bumped but I was protected by the Blood of Jesus.  He tells me He will never leave me.

The next time something good – or bad – happens, know that Jesus is there with you directing your path.  Coincidence?  No.  That’s Jesus leading me!