Our Priorities Should Be Sinking

I think of the Titanic not the movie but the actual ship. Please try your best to think of this as an actual event that people went through, if your imagination can't go farther than the movie, just keep in mind it actually happened and try to imagine what it was like if you were there, without the clever comic relief that someone wrote in their office. Try to imagine peoples real reactions and real terror.

I am starting to realize this world is no different than a sinking ship. A lot of people live their lives through panic, trying to convince themselves they will never die. Even the survivors of the Titanic are dead now.

I think sometimes the most important things to think about or talk about are the ones that our reactions tell us not to, I truley believe this is one of them.

When the Titanic was sinking, money was of no importance, what you owned, what status you are, all this was meaningless. What it all came down to (or should have come down to) was peoples lives.

I used to think that people lost their faith when something bad happened in their life. Someone close to them dies, they loose their job, wife cheats on them, or even all the above happens at once.

At this point I don't believe situations like that make us loose our faith, but expose our faith.
I know I mention a little of this in the last blog, but I'm really starting to think of how true this really is.

We can never show people unconditional love without conditions.

Sure I'll love you when you are nice to me, when you love me, when you give me things. But will I still show you love if you wrong me, steal from me, lie to me, beat me, or even murder a family member of mine?
I can see now how impossible it is to Love people as yourself without God. How many times have we harmed ourselves, did something we are ashamed of, but still forgave ourselves.

God is Love.
Love is Unconditional.
I also am realizing that God is not limited to the Bible, we think if we find a inconsistancy in the Bible that we have found an inconsistancy in God.

Sure we will hold the door open for someone when our life isn't at stake.
What about the times people on the titanic pushed people out of the way to save their life?

Every time something bad happens in your life, I hope that you take the oppertunity to show how faithful you are.

If you are on a titanic, you have a great oppertunity to show people you still care about them more than yourself.

I can give a million examples, but I won't.

It sure is easy to think you have faith when everything in your life is going fine.
I trust God will provide when I have money in my pocket.
But do I trust he will provide when I don't?
Even then, is food what he promised us?

I think that whole story of Jesus forgiving the sins of the cripple, and only healing him after people started talking. Because there was way more important thinks in life to whether or not we eat, walk, laugh, enjoy our life.

I can't remember what book this is from.
I think from the acts of Peter but I love it:

"Until you realize that whatever is up is down, whatever is right is left you will never understand the kingdom of God"

Everything you think this world tells you is important, question and see if it is important to God.

In every gospel it says, "whoever looses their life for me, will gain it, whoever holds onto it will loose it"

Don't ask the world what is important.