“As we think, so shall we act.”

This post has been modified due to my error in scripture references...(My references should have been Ecclesiastes not Proverbs).

There are some different variations of that quote, but it is still something we should consider.

I like to have fun. I like to joke around. But sometimes we have to consider what we say to people. What we say can have an impact on someone. 

God spoke and life was created. God spoke and the dead came alive.

James says that the tongue is a powerful tool.

“So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire. And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the whole course of life, and set on fire by hell.” James 3:5-6 ESV

How many people’s lives have been shipwrecked by words? How many lives have been destroyed because someone told them over and over again they weren’t good enough, pretty enough, smart enough? How many lives have been ruined because they gave up due to the constant drum beat of “you’re no good.”

Or at the other end of the spectrum - how many people have had it beat into their heads that they are better than everyone else? They don’t listen to anyone else, because they have an overblown view of themselves? They look down on those who don’t measure up to their standards. They don’t want to have anything to do with people whom they deem “not good enough.”

Ecclesiastes 7:16, 17 “Do not be overly righteous, Nor be overly wise: Why should you destroy yourself?

Do not be overly wicked, Nor be foolish: Why should you die before your time?”

Ecclesiastes 7:21, 22 “Also do not take to heart everything people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you. For many times, also, your own heart has known that even you have cursed others.”

What we think of ourselves has a lot of bearing on how we act. If we think of ourselves as no good, we start to behave that way. If we think that we’ll amount to nothing, we stop trying. If we think we are better than everyone else, we start looking down our noses at everyone else. If we think we know everything, we stop listening to others, but demand others listen to us.

What we say to people and how we say it takes a lot of discernment. What we say can build a person up, or it can tear them down. Things we say can build up a person’s ego, or help them see the truth.

Following the Spirit’s lead can be a tricky thing. We must empty ourselves and allow His guidance on what we say, and how we say it. That can be hard if we let ourselves get in the way.

Also, we need to learn to let GOD be the final arbiter of who we are and who others are. Remember, for God so loved the world.  

May we all learn to discern. 

Love Jesus. Eat cheesecake. Listen to Pink Floyd

DJ GlenMC

Link To My Teaching

For those who are interested, here is the audio of my teaching on February 15th.

http://www.calvaryemeraldcoast.org/Sermons/Guest/makedisciples.mp3

DVD's are available. Send me an email if you're interested.

My first official recorded teaching...LOL...be kind...

Be blessed. Be a blessing.
DJ GlenMC

Teaching

For all those out there that are following this blog...I'll be part of the worship team and will be teaching on February 15th...Wednesday night.

Come check it out.

http://Calvaryemeralcoast.org

On the right side go down to the "Live Streaming" link. Hope you can check it out.

Be blessed. Be a blessing.
Eat cheesecake. Listen to Pink Floyd. Love Jesus above all.
DJ GlenMC

Thoughts on Disciples

Jesus said go and make disciples. Disciples should be teachable. Instead, most of us become dogmatic. We don’t learn. We accept tradition. We accept the view that “this is how we always do it.” We’re like “this is this and that is that and don’t vary from this or we will have to paint you as some sort of heathen.”

Yes, there are some that have “strayed from the faith,” but just because someone disagrees with you doesn’t mean they’ve strayed from the faith. Think about this, maybe it’s you that strayed. Maybe we should each learn from each other. Listen to what the other is saying. I once saw a quote that said, “There are three sides to every story – yours, mine and the truth.” Don’t trash your brother because you don’t agree with them. John once said, “He who says he loves God and hates his brother, is a liar.” 1 John 4:20.

What is your “faith” in? What have you learned? What have you been taught?

"Come now, and let us reason together," Says the LORD, "Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.” Isaiah 1:18.

Can we be reasonable? “God said it. I believe it. That settles it,” is not very reasonable. I understand the view behind it, but it isn’t very helpful. No one likes to have their views challenged. Why do people want to censor others? Because they don’t want to hear any views that are different than theirs. It’s on both sides of the political spectrum. It’s in most of the religious communities. We isolate ourselves from opposing views because it makes us uncomfortable.

Paul said we should be like Bereans. “Listen to what he says, but check it out.” In the new vernacular, “Listen, but verify.” Acts 17:11.

Me? I’m confident in what I believe. What do I believe? I believe that God loved me enough to take my sins on His shoulders and nailed them to the cross so I don’t have to hope I’m good enough. God gave me hope in knowing that I am good enough in Christ.

What does that mean for my relationship with others? I can hang out and talk with others, and still love them. I don’t have to agree with them. I don’t even have to discuss my views with them. I am confident in my relationship with Jesus. Does that mean I haven’t changed my views on some issues? No. I have altered my views on some things. I’ve moved to a more loving view.

My views aren’t perfect. I’m constantly learning and growing. I never believe that my view is the final view. The one thing that I am sure of is, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but will have everlasting life.” John 3:16

There is so much more I could say on this, but I leave at that for right now.

Learn from each other, but above all love each other.

Be blessed. Be a blessing.

Eat cheesecake, listen to Pink Floyd, Love Jesus above all else.

DJ GlenMC

Day 5

2012....day 5...evening...what now? What do I say? Who wants to read what I write? Hmm...things to ponder...ramblings...For the few of you that read my posts, I'm going to try and write more for in here. I make no promises.
I hope you come back.
I hope and pray I can write something that doesn't waste your time or brain power...LOL...
Well, for now...Happy New Year!

DJ GlenMC

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

I haven't been in blogging much lately, but to all my friends out there....

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...

DJ GlenMC

Car Ads and Relationships

I saw a car advertisement that had a girl that was worried about her parents not socializing enough because they only had 16 friends on Facebook, but she had over 200 friends. While she talked, the scene would flash between her sitting at her computer by herself and her parents out in their car enjoying a party with their 16 friends. Sad state of affairs for people when they think they have a social life based on a number of people that have ‘friended’ them on the computer.

Need to shop? Go online.

Need to donate money? Go online.

Want to farm? Farmville!

Want to play games? We have an app for that.

The only reason anyone socializes any more is because we need money to pay for all the gadgets we want.

Have our gadgets become our task masters?

“My TV works fine, but it’s not big enough.”

“My DVD player plays DVDs well enough, but it’s not a BluRay disc player. Oh, the quality is so wonderful; it’s almost like being there.” Now you have to replace all your DVDs with BluRay discs.

Huh? Why not try ‘being there.’ Can’t get any more real than that.

We get our news from the internet. We don’t talk to people anymore. We have so isolated ourselves we don’t know how to have relationships anymore. We bury our faces in computers, books, video games, chat rooms, and the list goes on.

It’s easy to trash talk someone you don’t know personally. It’s easy to look down on those you don’t have a relationship with. When we can depersonalize people it’s easy to dismiss them and their opinions. When we refuse to talk to people because they don’t agree with what we think that’s NOT love. When you feel you must resort to name calling, you’ve lost any argument or point you may have tried to make. If you want to claim someone is going to hell before you even get to know that person, why should they even listen to you share with them about Jesus.

Ask yourself this, "How did Jesus approach people?" His worst criticisms and references of 'children of the devil' were always directed at religious people. Hmm?

Anyway. Until next time...whenever that will be...Love Jesus, eat cheesecake and listen to some Pink Floyd

DJ GlenMC

2 gigs left in the year....

Matthew 21:28-31

Matthew 21:28-31

28 "But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, 'Son, go, work today in my vineyard.'

29 "He answered and said, 'I will not,' but afterward he regretted it and went.

30 "Then he came to the second and said likewise. And he answered and said, 'I [go], sir,' but he did not go.

31 "Which of the two did the will of [his] father?" They said to Him, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Assuredly, I say to you that tax collectors and harlots enter the kingdom of God before you.

I was thinking about this the other day. How many of us say we “will do whatever you ask God.” We make all kinds of claims to righteousness. We don’t smoke. We don’t drink. We go to church. We think we are building up all these brownie points with God. But we don’t do the simple things that Jesus said were the top 2 priorities – “Love God, then love your neighbors.”

We’re so busy trying to ‘prove’ how worthy we are, that we forget that “not by works of righteousness will anyone be justified.” We neglect or ignore those who need to be touched by Jesus, by refusing to touch them. The very people that need Jesus the most are the same people we refuse to have anything to do with because it might make us look bad in the eyes of the religious people.

Jesus didn’t care that he was called the “friend of sinners.” Sinners need him. We need him. If we say that we’ll “go, sir” to work in the vineyard, don’t you think maybe we should?

Be blessed. Be a blessing.

Eat cheesecake. Listen to Pink Floyd. Love Jesus above all.

DJ GlenMC

JEEZ....

Nearing the end of September. I hate trying to do something...best laid plans and all...
Anyway...I've been working on some thoughts I just need to get them written down and posted here. Hopefully they will actually sound profound.

Know anyone that needs a DJ in the FWB, Destin, Pensacola, Panama City area? Looking for a few more gigs.

Be blessed. Be a blessing.
Cheesecake, spaghetti, love Jesus above all.
DJ GlenMC
www.life-tunes.com

Nearing the End of August

Only 2 more days in August and I haven't once blogged this month. JEEZ...

There are so many things that pass through my mind over the days...some of them actually shareable...LOL...

Does anyone even wonder what's up with each other? Everyone who's read my posts and whose posts I've read, would we even recognize each other is we past on the street?

There is so much that I should do. There is so much I need to do...but if I don't do it, God will still be on His throne. He will still love me. He will not cast me away from Him. I am not ashamed of the Gospel. Jesus died for my sins, and rose again to justify me before the Father. There is nothing I can do to add to or take away from His great sacrifice. For God so loved...me...

That is so cool. All I can do is love Him back...in my own imperfect way...

Until next time...Know you are greatly and unconditionally loved by Jesus. Me, I'm not that great, but I am loved.

Blessing and Grace,
DJ GlenMC
Cheesecake, spaghetti, Pink Floyd...Love Jesus above all else.