Feb 22 - Life Is But A Breath In Time

Let's burn through Leviticus today.....It's all about pronouncing people ceremonial unclean and what needs to happen for them to be pronounced ceremonial clean when it comes to sores, skin disease, boils, burns.....etc. One thing that caught my eye is Leviticus 13:40 - "If a man loses his hair and his head becomes bald, he is still ceremonially clean." Thank you and Good night!

In the new testament today Jesus returns to his hometown Nazareth and is met with tons of scepticism. He begins teaching in the synagogue and people were amazed. They asked, "Where did he get all this wisdom and the power to perform such miracles?" Then they scoffed, "He's just a carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon. And his sisters liver right here among us." They were deeply offended and refused to believe in him.

Then Jesus told them, "A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own hometown and among his relatives and his own family." Because of their unbelief, he couldn't do any might miracles among them except to place his hands on a few sick people and heal them. Crazy....the man comes back and carpenter or not they were amazed by his teachings and ability to perform miracles yet their hard hearts only wanted to see him as a carpenter. But that didn't stop Jesus he was part of a big plan by God. When God has a plan for your life don't be hammered down by the criticism. Do you have a passion or a Dream that you want to go after but your being pulled down by criticism encompassed with Fear? If your dream has been given to you by God then don't let anything stop you!

I'm living my dream....Well I should say I'm living God's plan which when you line up with His plans for you it becomes the dream you didn't even know you had! Money, big house, expensive car....my old dream not necessarily God's plan for my life. If that stuff comes then Great but if not that's Great too! My wife and I still save for retirement and I do have my own company that I'm working on expanding and interviewing with companies for better paying jobs that's just good sense. I have turned down a directors job in the past and didn't consider a traveling job recently that paid much more because it didn't line up with God's plan....or my new dream to be around and have time to spend my kids and spending time with my wife and helping her through this crazy time of feeding Little Bit every three hours while the Tazmanian Pnut tears up the house Toby Mac (feat. Kirk Franklin & Mandisa) puts it best in his song Lose My Soul "I'm gonna be a daddy who's in the mix and I'm gonna be a husband who stays legit" If you told me that my dream was going to be a great father and loving husband back when I was in my 20's I would have fell off my chair laughing. I put my faith in worldly things with money at the helm and got crushed....twice:) I think that was God pushing me off my platform saying "I have much better for you." Well He was right...imagine that:)

Psalm 39:4-5 "Lord remind me how brief my time on earth will be. Remind me that my days are numbered-how fleeting my life is. You have made my life no longer than the width of my hand. My entire lifetime is just a moment to you; at best, each of us is but a breath." Everyone always says they can't believe how fast time flies and how quick their kids grew up. I don't want to miss any of it, plus hanging out with Pnut allows me to act like a child experiencing everything as new! Although I get looked at funny when i scream DUCKY, QUACK-QUACK at the mall but what the heck...just living the dream!