Being and remaining loyal is something that I believe we all deal with it at some point in our lives. So many of us take so much pride in saying how loyal we are to our friends, our family and our significant others, etc. We ensure these individuals that we wouldn’t do anything to hurt them and that no matter what we would always be there for them. We have these people place their trust in us because they believe in our loyalty. True loyalty, I believe is a nature that God possesses, God is loyal and ever so faithful to us. He makes promises unto us and he keeps them. I know that sometimes we may feel like God doesn’t quite answer our prayers the way we intended but he always answers them where the outcome is for the better. You see, being loyal to your friends, family and significant other is great and all but how about being loyal to the one that makes all things possible. God has done things for us that we just cannot begin to imagine or even comprehend. He has made a way for us when there probably was no way and yet we continue to turn our back on the one person that despite anything we can count on. You see, God asks us to be loyal to him in return, for some they think it’s a one way street when it really isn’t. God has a special love for those that love him and are loyal to him. Now you may ask, well how do I know that I’m being loyal to God and the answer is quite clear, are you following his word and doing all the things he’s asking of you. You might be thinking, well I’m trying to but God doesn’t just try to be loyal to us so we shouldn’t only try to do his will but really make a valiant effort. You see God has a set of laws that he simply ask us to follow to prove that we are loyal to him. How closely are we following God’s law, are we being completely loyal to God or are we really only pretending. I just thought I’d share this with all of you because I think sometimes it’s good to just make sure that we check our lives and make sure that we our ordering our steps in God’s words.

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Psalm 86:5 “O Lord, you are so good, so ready to forgive, so full of unfailing love for all who ask for your help”.

We have been taught to forgive others and we claim to do that all the time but do we really forgive? How do you forgive someone that kidnaps your one and only daughter, rapes her, and infects her with a STD? For some of us, our first instinct is to see that person dead not imprisoned but dead. Imagine this, God’s only son came from heaven to earth got abused, raped of his dignity and infected with all of our sins and yet he continuously begs his father to forgive us. We sometimes let the human nature and our emotions take over and cloud our judgments.

Many times if we were to take at least one second to think we would act or react differently. To forgive is to complete restore the relationship. If you did something to me, I claim to forgive you , and I have a chip over my shoulder is that really forgiveness? We are not perfect however we should strive everyday to reach that level. To fully forgive we can’t do it all alone, we need the help and the guidance of the holy spirit. We should ask God everyday for a portion of his wisdom.

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For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit; let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.” (1 Peter 3:10-11, ESV)

I get told all the time I need to change the way I think towards certain aspects of life and I know I need to change that but I sometimes tend to be really stubborn and maybe just maybe someone out there can relate to how I feel. There are times when I feel that if someone were to cross me the wrong way or do something to hurt me or anyone I love in any shape or form that I would go to the lengths of this earth to make sure they pay for it. I don’t know, it’s really an unexplainable feeling that comes over me where I just become angry and I just want to seek revenge. Sometimes I even find that it can be the simplest of things that just irritate me or get me angry and these feelings come over me. Well, it wasn’t until recently when I went to church one day and the preacher said something that really struck home and stuck to me and he basically said in summary that when you start pondering or thinking of ways to get people back for something that they have done to you then what your really doing is telling God, let me do your job. This verse I placed in the beginning is for one reason only, as Christians we need not to think of evil, we need not speak evil of or to others or do anything evil like. When someone does something hurtful to us, don’t be furious, rather pray for him/her ask God to change that person because if he/she knew God they would have acted differently. I am so thakful that God woke me up from my path of destruction where I could have ended up losing myself because of someone else. I just thought I’d share a part of me that I’m sure so many of you can relate to.

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Second chances, do we really believe in that or is it just a saying? Is it really a Human Right? Over the past few weeks I have been hearing different people’s point of view and opinion in regards to Michael Vick’s signing with the Eagles. What exactly is the problem, I don’t know! I thought we were a people of second chances or least that’s what I have thought it to be growing up.  I guess my question is who should be given a second chance and who shouldn’t? Who decides when to it is granted or not? It is very easy to point fingers and blame others for the wrong they have done in their life, can you just imagine that God only allow us one chance and that’s it, or if HE decides what we should have a second chance for? I am not sure about you all but I don’t think God put a limit on what we get second chances for.

We have deliberately crucified him again and again and right after we ask for forgiveness and expected to be forgiven. What about our fellow men do we do the same as they wrong us and expect us to forgive them? Just as a story goes in the bible, please don’t quote me (lol) about a man who was in debt and he pleaded his case to the King and the King free him of all his debts however, that same man had someone that owed him as well, instead of doing the same thing the King did for him he didn’t. Why don’t we do to others as we would like do to us? Please understand I am not saying that people should do things and get away with it.

 Questions:

Second chances, does it really apply when it is in reference to us?

What should we get second chances for?

Who decides that?

Let me know what you think….

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