Stumbling Over the Truth

. . .the story of my life is that I am not that great, not that special, and I have messed up way more than I really would like anyone to know.  But today, that's okay because of the fact that God loves me. . .       Secrets, everybody has them.  For most of us, we want to make sure those secrets remain secrets.  That is unless you are Tony Starke and you are just dying to tell everyone, "I am Iron Man."  For everyone else, we like a little mystery about who we are and what we do (or have done).  The other night my wife and I left a restaurant and were approached by a young man who was searching for something to eat.  The first words out of his mouth were "I just got out of prison and I am starving. . . "  We obliged him with some food, but I really wanted to tell him that he may want to change his approach line.  Telling someone that you just got out of prison may not be ideal before you ask them for help.   ...

Yesterday I had a heart attack!!! It wasn't my first, though it may be the first time that I have acknowledged one. After years of suffering from reoccurring heart attacks, I have finally come to realize that this deep pain I am experiencing is a result of when I allow my heart to stray from God. Winston Churchill said, "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." This statement is definitely true of my own life. For years I have felt the pains of my sins but never really associated them with a heart issue. Like a physical heart attack we should recognize the true pains in our spiritual heart as we ignore a loving God. More than my pain though is the thought of the pain that God experiences in His heart as I fail to love Him with all of my heart, soul, mind, and strength. Relativism has quietly crept into everyday thinking and is one of the pain killers Satan uses to help numb us from our h...