Believing Like MJ

what is believing anyway? I mean, is it really what its cracked up to be?
Im not sure about you guys but when i want an answer to something I generally ask a question. They help a lot.

-Question one) why should you believe in something?
is it is because it gives us a deep sense of belonging? because we can come together in our belief (like Santa and the easter bunny etc)? or is it because we need (a religion to help us) to formalize our panic about death. "quick! death is coming! put on the gold hat and sing songs about dead people!"... well some of this is true and some, not so much. but personally i like to believe in stuff because its true and kinda mandatory for... well, everything! like i believe in cars coz they are really there and thats why there has been no need to scrape me off the road (yet). this works for me, this believing in cars thing.

-Question two) what is true?
don't you hate them stupid true and false question on tests! they just bug me. never the less truth is generally needed for people to understand things. Example of true and untrue things: Unicorns= Not real, people= Real, Michele Jackson= em, not sure! The way we find out truth is when we check it out and try to understand through our own research.

in faith our own research is reading the bible and stuff. people can tell us stuff too, but sometimes we just don't want to listen coz we think it won't help us. like when the waiter puts a plate down on the table and says "careful not to touch it, its very hot." when he leaves i always touch it to see how hot it is... and i burn the hand off me usually.

Look for truth, all you can do is gain, you can't lose a thing, but if you don't look you can lose the world.

"what good is it if a man gains the whole world, yet loses his soul?"

sexed up!

Sex. This word gets loads of different reactions from different people, and personally i think some of them are hysterical! Christian reactions are the funniest though coz nobody knows how quite react so its great. try it the next time your with a bunch of Christians. just look them in the eye and slowly say "sex..." its great.

   The christian view on this is often fuzzy and therefore leaves it open for attack from the outside world. but personally i think sex is fantastic! amazing! such a gift from God! God doesn't think we should ashamed of sex, he invented it for goodness sakes! a whole book in the bible id dedicated to it! (songs of solomon)

I can't wait until i get married so sex can be a big part of my relationship with my wife. Sometimes i get pretty mad at some of my "mates" who go on about what a great night they had with some girl one night, or things to that effect. then i just become sad because they have such a lie in their head. They think that sex is all about how much i can get or who i can get it from... That is not what sex is about. sex is an selfless act of giving. It is a time when you give your whole physical and emotional self to that someone you love. That is a big deal. the thing is, if you keep giving bits of yourself away to that girl who you spent the night with or whoever else who happens to pass by, will you have enough left to give to the one you love? I want to be able to say to my wife on our wedding night "I kept myself for you because i love you. Now you can have my whole heart.", i pray she can say the same to me.

  There was this kid, and he really was siked about christmas! i mean who isn't? This kid was more excited that usual because he had asked his parents to buy him a PS3 for christmas. one day in November he caught a glimpse of his parents carrying a box covered in a big black bin bag, they carried it through the house quickly and up to their bedroom, making sure their son couldn't see what it was. Every friday and Tuesday his parents Got back late from work so the Kid had some time on his own on these two days each week. so as Tuesday arrived he sneaked up to his parents room, searched around and then he found it, the black bag. Through the plastic he could just about make out "PS3". he was so happy and excited about this gift and he left the room content. Then on friday he came up for a second look, this time he pulled the bag out from where it was hidden and opened it a little just to see the box. he  spent a good 20 mins just looking at the closed box enjoying what was in his hands. he put it back in its place and left the room, making sure his parents wouldn't have known he was there. The on friday he opened the box to see the the clean plastic of the console in its stirafome padding before putting it away before his parents returned. By early december every tuesday and friday the kid had his PS3 plugged into the TV and was playing away. Then came christmas day and there was his PS3 wrapped up under the tree. he opened it, then moved on to another present, unfazed.

That amazing Gift was used to much before its time and became worthless. don't do the same with you Gift.

Faith

"suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food and one of you say to them, 'go in peace, keep warm and well fed', yet you do nothing about their physical needs what good is it? in the same way, faith if it is not accompanied by action, it is dead." JAMES 2:14-17

What in the world is this stuff called faith? Jesus talks about it so much! from what i can gather from other parts of the, faith can do stuff. like jesus said "get up, your faith has made you well."... okay, so this faith stuff must be like some kinda medical thing or something coz it heals people. right? so i guess it does a lot of good. also other jesus said that "your faith has saved you." that sounds pretty cool, coz the army saves people and so does 'air sea rescue' and they have them big fancy helicopters, so this faith stuff must be pretty cool. however in james says if you don't use this faith then its pointless having it.

   i want you, yes, you if your reading this, to think of the coolest thing in the world! for some of you it may be the avatar movie or Emma Watson, but try to stick to tangible things for now. for me the coolest thing in the world is my "jeep wrangler." that i wish i had. now if my dad bought me a jeep wrangler i would be freaking out! i would be ecstatic. Once i have my jeep wrangler i can come to youth club, or school, or wherever a group of my friends are and i can tell them "I have my jeep wrangler! wooohooo!" then a friend says, "so aren't you going to drive it?"
 "no!"
 "well why not?"
"pff, i don't know, im just not."...

if i go on about my car as much as i do, then when i finally get it i don't drive it, anybody would have the right to think im slightly crazy. that is kinda like faith. our father has given us this amazing gift! that we should be freaking out about coz its so cool! coz it can move mountains and do loads of cool stuff. but once when we get it and don't use it, its pointless.

sometimes when you see the news and you see the famine that is spreading all over the world and the degenerative living conditions of 1000's of people sometimes, i bet you get angry at God for allowing this. i got angry at God when i was in a place called garbage city in egypt. i was so mad at God because he let kids i had come to love, run about the streets without shoes on, he allowed people to drink disgusting water! he allowed people to have no education, right there in front of my eyes. i asked God "how can anyone called God allow this?"
he replied "how can we allow this?"
"you cant say we, im not God!"
"yes, but are you not my hands, are you not my feet? why aren't you doing anything?"

shall we get to work?