Welcome to the Planet

"Welcome to the planet, welcome to existence. everyone's here, everyone's here. Everybody's watching you now, everybody waits for you now. What happens next, what happens next?"

So what does happen next? 

When we're born our life is pretty much splashed out in front of us. You're born, learn to walk, talk, then it's potty training & everything else babies "should be learning" and you do funny things older people laugh at and think are cute.

Then it's bikes, school & making friends. It's all layed ahead of you though.

You eventually have to go to school to have the grades to go to college/uni to get a career & once you get the career you pay off the debt that going through school to get the career gave you. Little silly if you ask me. 

It's already said before you're alive what you'll do, but no one knows what you'll do with what you get. Some are fortunate enough to have all that handed to them, others face challenges that test their daily walk through life. 

What do you do with what you have? 

Today I challenge you to do one thing with what God gave you. I know that's quite broad, but if you just thought of something I must have said something right. 

Whether it's an ability God blessed you with, a skill, fortune, your advice, education, something that can and will alter someone's day through the grace of God. 

"Whatever you do, work heartily, as for The Lord and not for men." Colossians 3:23 

I dare you to move.  

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The Hands

As weird as this concept may be, I'm sitting here staring at my hands. 

The marks, lines, seeing the daily struggle they endure, just by being my hands. 

The day before last I was at work & I broke a coffee pot in my hands, I have scratch marks from that, I have hang nails & chewed tiny bitter nails. Nervous habit. But yet, I still go everyday using them the same as I would any other time. 

God uses our hands to tell a story, to create who we are. If you look at your hands right now, what story would they tell? 

There will be sin, there will be celebration & there will be scars. 

Job 17:9 says: 

"Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger."

No, not everyone's hands are clean, not everyone can even endure life with hands. But let them tell your story, whether you're with or without them, let God also use your hands to do good, to be pure, to tell your testimony. 

When you look at your hands today, see them with eyes of inspiration, knowledge of the past & the knowing what the future can hold for you. What God needs you to hold in your hands to live out his will. 

With the hands of The Lord on your life, you can and will be stronger and stronger. 

So let your hands praise him, you were fearfully and wonderfully made! 

1 Timothy 5:22

James 5:13 

Isaiah 41:10