Category: Christian

WWYDIJWSBY – What Would You Do If Jesus Was Standing Beside You

I’m sure many of us remember the huge WWJD movement. I got to thinking recently about this and some songs from back when I was in Youth group. It’s easy to ask yourself what would Jesus do, the real question is what would you do if Jesus was standing beside you.

I admit I am guilty of this more often than I should I am a schizophrenic Christian. I am one way in church and another at my job. Taking is back to the 90’s again for a second, at the end of dcTalk’s Jesus Freak there is a part that states that “the single biggest cause of Atheism in the world is Christians, who acknowlege Jesus with their lips and deny him by their lifestyle. ”  What do the people that you work with or go to school with think of you.  Do they see you as a good Christian person, a hypocrit, or do they see you the same as the non-Christian co-worker sitting in the next cube.  We are called to be transformed from the world not be part of it.  Yes we live here, and deal with things every day, but we are called to handle things differently.

In thinking about this post, I have been thinking a lot about 2 Kirk Franklin songs; I Smile from his new album Hello Fear and The Last Jesus from The Fight of My Life.



These two songs say a lot and are good anthems to start out your day.  Listen to these songs and tell me that they don’t inspire you in some way to be a better Christian in your school or workplace.

3 yr old drawing
My 3 yr old's picture... 1 of many

Another way to look at it is; remember when you were a kid, it didn’t matter what the picture looked like, it was on that refridgerator.  It may be some scribbles but as parents we are proud of those scribbles.  What if we make everyday a day that God is proud to place up on his fridge.  Make everyday a day that all of your actions could be proudly displayed on your own fridge.

So live each day just like Jesus is standing over your back, we all act differently when when the boss in near our desk, even though God is with us at all time.

by corymcglone

Love and Marriage

Over and over though life we hear about love.  I love _______.  You can fill in the blank with many different things.  For me  I love, God, my wife, my daughter, etc.  In today’s world though we get such twisted views of love.  We don’t have all the other words that other languages have.  We use the word love for the feelings we have for our spouse, kids, that cheeseburger at lunch.  It just doesn’t have the same meaning even though it is the same word.

But when we think about the love that you have for your spouse or loved ones, we think of the type of love that would go to the ends of the earth for the other person.  It is this love that makes you say that you would do anything for that person, you would be willing to give your life for that person.  This is what we hear about so much in songs and in movies, the guy saves the girl from the car at the last second, or the line from the Bruno Mars song, I’ll catch a grenade for you.  The fact that I would risk life and limb for my wife and daughter is a no brainer.

The main question to ask yourself when you know that you are in love, is not if you would stop a bullet for the other person or stop a run away train.  Ask yourself if at the end of your longest hardest day, are you willing to tell your wife go relax let me do the dishes, let me run the sweeper.  True love is looking at the relationship from both sides as an 80/20 split, I can take care of my wife, ensuring that her needs are met and she gets what she needs to be happy.   This fulfills my 20 percent for myself and lets her know that in everything that I do I am think of her.

Remember these things next time you tell someone you love them, and think of how you really mean it.  Look at the one you love and tell them that not only would you die for them, you will do the dishes or clean the bathroom.  Find out that one thing that they hate doing but have to, and do it for them, even though you hate it more.
And He said to him, ” ‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’38“This is the great and foremost commandment.39“The second is like it, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’40“On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”
Matthew 22:37-40 (New American Standard Bible)

by corymcglone

Make mine a good day

Good Day by Nappy Roots
[Intro:]
You know today I just woke up and I said
You know instead of waitin’ on a good day
Waitin’ around through up’s and down’s waitin
On something to happen I just say

[Chorus:]
We’re gonna have
We’re gonna have
We’re gonna have a good day….

Every morning when we wake up we have the power to determine if we are going to have a good day. There are so many things in this life that we have no control over, if it rains it rains, if your computer crashes, if the gas pedal falls off your car. You had no way to know it was coming and there is nothing that you can do to prevent it. Things are going to happen.

The only we can do is wake up every morning and make one of two choices: 1. Thank God that you woke up and thank him for the great day you are about to have or 2. Thank God that you woke up and ask him to help you make it though this day.

Each day we have is a gift from God and our problems may only be tests of our faith. When tough times come don’t forget to pray and ask God for help. It is with him that all things are possible.

by corymcglone