Do you know him?

I know for me it is all too common to say "I know someone". Let's say one of your buddy's say to you "Hey, do you know Joe from church?" "Why sure I do, I sat next to him and his family for 2 years and we go to a home group together." What is Joe's mom's name? Where did Joe go to school? Does Joe have a dog? What's his name?

My point is this, that we really don't know Joe, we know of him. We know him well enough to say a few nice things about him but we really don't know him.

How many times have we been asked, "Do you know so and so?" Our natural reaction is to say yes because we know of them. It's like some kind of knee jerk reaction in our culture to say we know someone and it only gets worse the more popular the person is.

So I have said all this to say, do you know Jesus? Are you saved? Are you going to go to heaven or hell when you die?

Mathew 7:21-23 says {21} that not everyone who says to me Lord, Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my father who is in heaven. {22} Many will say to me on that day, Lord Lord did we not prophesy in your name and drive out demons in your name and perform many miracles? {23} Then I will tell them plainly, I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers.

So the question is, do you know him? I know for me, I went down in my local church and confessed my sins and was told I was saved in 1984, then I spent the next 18 years in the worst drug addiction and sexual sin that the devil could come up with, all the time thinking I was saved and would some day go to heaven all because I had gone down when the pastor said do you want to be saved?

Then in 2002 I was sitting smoking pot and reading the bible and I came to this scripture and my life has never been the same. I knew with out a doubt that I did not know this man and that had I died right then I would have gone to hell. I believed that the bible is God's word and I believed in Jesus, but it was no different that I believe Joe has a dog or a mom, but I didn't know Him and this scripture makes it clear.

We have been deceived and I truly hope you will take a look at your life, though your life may not be as extreme of an example you still must know the truth and that is we all assume because we are acquainted with someone that we know them. That is just not the case.

So the question is do you know him?

I'm in Hot Pursuit

Not like Roscoe P. Coltrane "ouch I dated myself" anyway what I am talking about is relationships and being the man that you were created to be.

God was very intentional in making us want a woman. The desire to find a mate is what makes the world go around, and from the time we hit puberty we are trying to pursue the girl of our dreams.

So why is it that after you find the woman you want to spend your life with, you pursue her and capture her heart and then marry her.Then why is it that you let the pursuit stop?

Did God all the sudden send a messenger from heaven and tell you that you no longer had to pursue her?

Are you so caught up in your life and your selfish desires that you don't think that you need to pursue her or that she didn't need you to pursue her?

God created you to be her knight in shinning armor, he created you to come to her rescue and to be willing to fight for her. She was designed by God to need you and to want you to pursue her, from the time she is a little girl she dreams of the day you will come for her.

So the real question is can you be the man that God created you to be? Can you come to the rescue and will you fight for her honor , her love and mostly her heart.

Poser

Are you a poser? Have you ever acted a certain way so that you would get a desired result? Yes, of course we have. Our parents teach us from an early age that we should act right and look right to obtain favor. Its because we are all hiding the real us and we don't want to be disliked or get hurt, maybe if your like me you just don't want to hurt anyone else.

One thing is for sure, we are a bunch of poser's hiding behind whatever we want people to belive we are. We are people hiding behind what the world has told us it wants to see in us.
I encourage you come out from behind your facade and let the world see the real you that God designed, He designed only one of you and now your keeping that hid behind what you think the world wants.

Isn't it more important what God wants and don't you think he yearns to see the real you he created? I know for me it breaks my heart to watch my kids act like someone they're not just to fit in.