JoshLamkins.com » Power http://joshlamkins.com Thoughts From a Three-Pound Fallen Brain Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:56:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Democracy http://joshlamkins.com/democracy http://joshlamkins.com/democracy#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:43:26 +0000 admin http://joshlamkins.com/?p=468 Why do you believe in Democracy?
For quite sometime, there has been a lot of debate that has challenged the core values of America. We have always hailed ourselves as “the land of the free and the home of the brave” but, to many people, our freedom has been far from that which so many before us fought bravely for. If you asked most people, you would probably see a consensus that there has been too much freedom within our government. Too much freedom you ask? Do we actually have too much of the founding element in our country? I would have too agree that in some ways yes, we do.

So with the scarred image of Democracy as it stands today, why should we believe in it? I believe in democracy because I believe in the fall of man. While, I think, many believe because of the opposite. Mankind is so fallen that no man can be trusted with unchecked power over his fellow man. Democracy, as it stands today, has a fleeted from this position.

]]> http://joshlamkins.com/democracy/feed 1 Seek First the Kingdom http://joshlamkins.com/seek-first-the-kingdom http://joshlamkins.com/seek-first-the-kingdom#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:51:30 +0000 admin http://joshlamkins.com/?p=196 I am going to begin this post with sort of a bold statement: God’s will for your life is not a mystery no matter how mysterious His Will may seem.

Many of us go through life with not a clue as to what we are supposed to be doing. We just “go where the wind blows us.” But yet, I do believe that we all have some idea of what we should be doing. Though minute of an inkling as it may be. The problem is that we just can’t get over our own self.

Many times we spend our life in a constant state of procrastination. We tell ourselves that we cannot do what God wants us to do yet because we have to get through school or get married first or have kids or get rich! Then and only then will we be able to truly focus on doing God’s will for our life!  We are constantly putting god’s plan for our life off, waiting for a more convenient time. We think that God has to work on our time. If we do not know what God wants us to do by lunch, then He will just have to wait until tomorrow because the rest of the days’ schedule is full.

But then it wouldn’t be God’s will would it? It would be our will. Our prerogative. Our priorities. Our life with which to do whatever we will. Once we realize that our time and God’s time are totally different things, then and only then can we begin to understand what His will is. It is God’s schedule first and then our schedule.

Matthew 6:33, I believe is the key to understanding. It says, “Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all of these things will be given to you as well.”  We have to understand that God’s will is not some distant, inconceivable idea we are suppose to question for the rest of our lives and if we get it wrong we will be smitten by the almighty smitter.  If in everything that we do we seek the kingdom of God first, we will be doing that which lines up with His will. We will have a hope and a purpose and will walk in the victory of that.

This can be your life. This can be the victory in your Christian walk. It is not by your might, or power, but by the will of God.

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