Turbulent Waters

Turbulent Waters Discipleship of men as they continue to walk with Christ.

I am simple man who has gone through life with the struggles of being a Christian man, with whom God has placed a burning passion to help young men grow deeper in there walk with him. Through this burning passion I have come to believe that God has lead me to put pen to paper and share God's word and how He has used it to shape my life full of grace and fulfillment even with its trials and tribulations.

09/16/2016

In my last post I spoke about seeing ourselves in God's designed image and a key to doing this was humbling ourselves before the Lord and the others. Sounds easy, not really like so many other things this is against our human nature. In Romans 12:2 it says; And do not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. It is interesting that the will of God is that we fight our human nature or maybe a better way of saying this would be we oppose what society says is right and lean not on our own understanding but that which comes from the Father. Being humble means putting our own needs second and others before ours. When we define humility we see it in two forms first in the English language which it means "a modest or low view of one's own importance; humbleness". The second comes to us from the biblical definition where is related to the word meek or to be meek. When the bible talks about being humble or meek in the New Testament they are allowing themselves to be teachable, approachable, and held accountable. All these attributes are critical in walking with the Lord. Both definition tell us that we need to lower ourselves on the platform and allow others to stand along with us or in many cases in front of us. I struggled with this for many years I always wanted to be the center of everything always had to be the one who was recognized the most and so on. God truly had to HUMBLE my spirit and heart. This took time, but I can truly tell you that I would prefer to have this humble heart any day and see the image God intended for me that the one that I saw before when I carried all the pride before. No one can tell humility comes easy but I can tell you it is vital.

09/14/2016

Often in life we look in the mirror and what we see is an image that we are not pleased with. This could be in many different ways and forms. In many cases it comes in a sense of self worth. Some may view it on more of physical appearance others more of an emotional one. Many times over the years I have looked in the mirror and not been pleased with the person looking back in all these areas and then some. It has not been an easy process in dealing with all the different reasons I have felt this way. Nor would I say it is for anyone. I will say this though when I stopped looking in the mirror through my eyes and started looking in the mirror through God's eyes I truly saw myself in a whole new manner (notice I did not say a perfect manner). God created us in His image we know this but what does that really mean? What is His image? I struggled with this for many years, I worked hard in my job, to the point that I was not home much. Guess what I did not feel any better nor successful. I have had jobs where I made a lot of money and could buy just about anything we wanted, nope still did not truly feel all that successful then either. So then whats missing why did I still feel empty I knew God I served in the church, I had a good job, loving wife, great kid everything society says makes a mans image look good but yet I looked in the mirror and felt empty. One day I don't truly remember what I was doing but I do remember just praying that morning a simple prayer that God would posture my heart to truly hear what He had to say. That day for the entire day God spoke one sentence over and over again. "Humble yourself in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up." This sentence comes to us out of James 4:10. We can not truly see God's image that He created us in until we are humble enough to put aside ourselves and put Him first and then others such as our wives, children and then ourselves. This is against human nature but this is truly the image that we were created in. Jesus did not come here to be served but to serve His purpose was to save us of our sins so in is image we our to glorify God first, then others then ourselves and then and only then can we truly see ourselves in the image God intended.

09/14/2016

God really laid it on my heart some time ago to do two things, first reach out to men, and second to write a book in which I share how God has walked with me throughout my life which has been full of ups and downs. I call this my life's roller coaster. Lately God has really been speaking that this is a combined effort. I created this page in large to really get my thoughts down and out there and just see what God does was them. I am not much for sharing what it is I feel nor much for what I have gone through in life nor going through currently, however lately I have received quite a bit of confirmation on doing something along these lines so I will be attempting to post daily blogs with what it is God lays upon my heart to share and what I have already written down over the last several months.

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