No title comes to mind.........wait...........be someone's strong arm

Constant nothingness comes to mind when I try to focus on what to blog about. Work has been very busy. That tends to take a toll on the body and the spirit. Sometimes seeing others suffer is so hard. It really makes you thank God for what you do have. Sometimes its just a little more then I care to bear alone. The things I see.........this past weekend two dear souls did not wake up. One took her own life at the ripe age of 25, a month after her wedding. Another soul was hit riding a motorcycle by a truck. He was in his late forties. Things like that were not meant to happen. I pray for their souls. I pray for their families. That they may find comfort where none may be found, that through it all somehow, God will be glorified and magnified. What do you say to those left behind to comfort them? The truth of the matter is that there is little you can truly say. Spiritual wounds and matters of the hearts can only be healed by the one who created both the heart and the spirit. Where do we take cars when they break down? Hopefully my dad's shop or a dealership! So when we are broken and can't go on. That is when we call out to God and beg for His repairs. We don't even have to go somewhere special. He just says call out to Me. Sometimes it feels, I could go for a full body restoration!!!! Lord, just fix it all. And He will. It's just that in His time, He fixes it and helps us to learn from our breakdowns. At the time we just want us back to normal and fixed again. God wants to soop us up. Not just make us how we used to work, He wants us to turn into a powerful vessel for Him. It's so hard to remember that it's not about me getting sooped up. It never has been. I may have thought it was. It's about reaching out to others and when we start focusing on others, God fixes us and helps us continue running the race. Then why Cody, is it so hard to remember others and keep them the focus? I know the right words to say, but continually doing it is another thing, I'm working on. When we turn our attention from Me to Them, we have let go of our issues and given them to someone who can handle them much better than you or I. I've talked long enough. Pray for me and I'll pray for you. Read the verse that goes along so perfectly with the post and reflect(= be someone's stronghold.

Galatians 6:2 (Amplified Bible)
2Bear (endure, carry) one another's burdens and [a]troublesome moral faults, and in this way fulfill and observe perfectly the law of Christ (the Messiah) and complete [b]what is lacking [in your obedience to it].

I will praise you in the storm, my theme song

Hello~
So today I was just thinking about what i could blog about. I mean I don't really know who reads my blog or why I really post in it, other then for my own self. I figured if I'm doing it for just me, then it's time to quit, but I've come to the conclusion that maybe someone will just randomly find my page. I want it to reflect Jesus in such a way, that they can receive the gospel from what I have posted. so yeah. Yesterday i was reading in Proverbs 19 and came acros this little gem of scripture.

20Hear counsel, receive instruction, and accept correction, that you may be wise in the time to come.
21Many plans are in a man's mind, but it is the Lord's purpose for him that will stand.(G)
22That which is desired in a man is loyalty and kindness [and his glory and delight are his giving], but a poor man is better than a liar.


One thing that really got to me was about receiving and and accepting correction. Sometimes that is not the easiest thing to do. Mostly for us males it is much harder. It continues to say that we must allow transformation to be wise in the time to come. I guess I don't have much of a choice then if I want to listen to correction or not. We are called to do it. Something to work on for sure...................=) Verse twenty really sticks out in my mind. We as humans, as males, have many ideas in our heads, BUT it is THE LORD'S PURPOSE THAT WILL STAND. Whoa! So, what I think I know, I know nothing of. figure that one out!! I'm thankful that the Lord will work with us enough to make sure that his purpose for our lives stand. What a mess I would be in if I were on my own. Praise Jesus for his Directions. Not to say we don't screw up in our minds. It is God who puts it all together for the good of those who love Him. That's why I will Praise HIM in the Storm.

ITS BEEN SO LONG!

Remember the good old days, when blogging came natural and you didn't have to make a conscious effort, and you always wanted to. Yeah, those were good days. They're now over, but good while they lasted. As most of you know, I tore a ligament in my knee in taylor. I've been unable to work for the past week and this week as well. You come to appreciate things like work, when you maybe didn't think you ever would. I miss volleyball. I miss basketball. I miss walking and leaping and praising God. Today I read an interesting passage.

Deuteronomy 13
1If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
2And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;
3Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
4Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
5And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
6If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
7Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;
8Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:
9But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
10And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
11And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.
12If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,
13Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;
14Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;
15Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.
16And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.
17And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;
18When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.


This chapter is so very real. Shows that God is a God of Judgment. If you lose focus of God and focus on other things (idols). We surely deserve death! But, Jesus saved us from what we deserve. Verse 3 really hits home. Do I always love the Lord with all of my heart and soul. Have I kept back some of that love for other things? I confess, it happens in my life. What does it mean to love Him with ALL of your Heart and Soul? Maybe with everything I have. I want to lay it all out, I want my soul to Cry Out to Jesus. He is all I need. I pray that we all may do what is right in the Eyes of the Lord. I love you all