Paradigm shift

It is so ironic that on a blog titled "don't let time get away" I have let 20 days go by without a single post. What a shame! This is the reason I feel this urgency, knowing that with every passing day I am one day closer to my expiration. Will I indeed stand before God and give the account of a man that wasted his time? God forbid! 

I want only to hear these words, "well done thy good and faithful servant". 

This is the daily struggle to readjust my thinking or paradigm to radically alter my habits and behavior. It all starts with your thinking. 

"Whatsoever a man thinks, so is he."

That is a quote from the scriptures but consider this philosophy; 

Your thoughts control your actions, your actions determine your behavior and your behavior defines your character.

The only way to change deep rooted behavior patterns is to seek God daily giving all diligence to pursue and encounter the LIVING savior! My prayer daily is that God would lead me out of routine, routine is that which binds the spirit and keeps our thinking inside a box. 

We have a hope and joy unspeakable if we are of the family of God! We have the same spirit that raised the Messiah Yeshua (Jesus) from the dead dwelling inside of us ready to raise us up on the last day. 

We have a promise from the immutable creator that he will redeem us and give us eternal life! 

How much then, shall we hold our conversation in the things that become the gospel which gives us comfort and hope to the unregenerate? 

Time is a finite resource to a finite creation, so let us labor for that which fades not away. Let us lay aside all foolish talk. For in the day of judgement every idle word shall be given an account for. This is enough to make me shudder at the thought of every wasted moment and every hollow word that did not bring glory to our Creator, the God of Abraham, The God who appeared on Mt Sinai to Moses and the God who in dwelled a body of flesh, YAHWEH!!!!!

A new year approaches

Inevitably it is that time again, we approach the turning over of a new leaf. A new year approaches and another fades away never to return. That time cannot be reclaimed or relived. Just as the years past I think about what I have done with my time and how I can better manage the time in the coming year. I am not one who boasts in new year resolutions for these are commitments often time, I think to convince ourselves of goals we do not intend to keep. 

However, I reflect and try to take away some wisdom through the events of the past year and lessons I've learned that would benefit me in making decisions day by day. In this I can learn and grow into maturity for daily devotion to God and discernment for decision making without boasting in something I may fall short of thereby setting up myself and those who look up to me for disappointment. 

Many times I have heard of these resolutions which never come to fruition or maturity. This is because we try to treat the symptom instead of the cause. The outward manifestations of poor health, bad habits or ill manners are really the effects of the causes of discontentment, apathy, lack of concern or consideration, pride, covetousness, jealousy or lack of compassion and forgiveness. 

Therefore let us not aspire to change some aspect of our lives, but to seek Jeshua (Jesus) for repentance so that we can have a change of heart that will surely render the results of a clean conscience and upright spirit. I speak from experience for I daily must examine myself and find where those ungodly attributes try to creep in and take root in my heart.

It does not take a new year or a Sunday church service for me to commune with Jeshua and let the light of his Spirit and his word to enter my heart and dispel the darkness of discontentment, covetous or apathy. If I seek him with my whole heart and receive the repentance he gives, I can be renewed daily and the good diet, healthy regimen and goods manners will follow. Day by day. 

"In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, peradventure God will grant them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth"

2 Timothy 2:25

What are you doing?

A great conflict I find in my life is that I have all these great ideas and thoughts, yet they rarely materialize or manifest. I find that my greatest enemy of any great shift change is myself. It is much easier to just maintain the status quo and keep trucking.

But I find that days turn into months and months turn into years. I think one of the greatest disappointments in life is knowing that I have not lived up to my true potential. Looking back at the years that have passed I realize that I had everything even when I had nothing. This is a reference to the wealth we all possess in the time we have. We have all heard the saying "time is money" but fail to put that into proper perspective.

The time we have makes us rich if we abide in the realization that we can do anything with that space of existence. We are wonderfully and fearfully created. Oxygen goes into our lungs that revitalizes our blood with every breath that we take, the blood flows through veins and arteries which feeds the cells which form tissue with oxygen. This invisible (to the naked eye) element then provides life to the brain which is continually firing off signals through the nervous system which commands the body even while you are asleep. These electric pulses fly through you with lightning speed and jump across synaptic gaps so that even the simplest of movements or actions are nothing short of astounding.

You are able to think and navigate this amazing vessel you call your body by your own will. If you desire to rise up, lie down, go out, build, instruct, establish a legacy that will last when you are long gone.........or if you desire to earn in order to consume aimlessly........

The last thing I want to do is look back and realize that I did nothing with my greatest resource, time.
I want to look back and know that I fulfilled my potential and did not waste time nor energy. The very things that marinate in my mind will only rot if I do not act on them, like marinating a T-bone steak and fine vinegar and oil but never cooking it. What a waste that would be.

I believe everyone possesses passion about something yet do not "find the time" to pursue it. So I ask you the same question I ask myself, "what are you doing?"

Go to Youtube channel TheVicariousLife1 to see a video of a sunrise over Sao Palo, Brazil and to hear more of this matter.