while I was in new Orleans I saw a lot of crazy "messed" up people. a lot of them ...their life has just become nothing. and this started some thinking.
there was this one guy who I haven’t been able to get out of my head. I was at a red light and I looked out the window and I saw a guy sitting there on the steps. his eyes were big and his face kept showing different emotion. his lips would make a smile and then kinda go in and then go out and just back in forth. as I'm watching him I started thinking ...he use to be normal... he use to be just like me and my friends. he probably went to high school... could have a been a popular guy or could have been a nerd. well known or not hardly noticed. or maybe he was, but what he was noticed for, wasn’t good. he also could have been very involved in a church and loved god deeply. all kinds of possibility's.
and I started thinking how he got from there to where he was now.
crazy to think but when he was younger...he had no idea one day in new Orleans he would be sitting on a step with his face all messed up and I'm sure hungry and no place to sleep....no friends or family.
how did he get there.
he got there because of two things. one: him self.
the choices we make today effect us ...in the future. what we do now will some day come back to us. it will some how have an effect on us down the road. sometimes it will be good and sometimes it will be bad. ....
there was something in his life that lead him to that. could have been small, could have been big. you just never know but that is why its so important to be careful with how we live our life now. how we live it every day. one word, one action will be apart of us forever. it will carry on into life.
second: You. (people he knew)
how we treat people effect other peoples life’s. just like we effect our own we effect others.
some one could have stopped or just never even loved him...or maybe they did in their hearts but they didn’t show it.
they didn’t treat him right. they said they were his friend but then something happened...something or someone came up.
we treat each other like we don’t matter. we call each other our best friend and show that we care about them when we feel like it and don’t think about our self. but then we get into selfish mode and forget everyone else. then a fight, problems, drama, hurt happen. and because of that...it will carry on in our life and effect us.
there use to be a time when people knew the real meaning of what family meant or friendship, relationships, love, marriage, sex, respect, honesty, government, follower of Christ, ...and the list goes on. we have lost a hold of the real meaning of anything.
people say this is a good world will live in. they say they love life.
I can personally not say the same. yes god has made so many beyond breathtaking things and he has blessed us with so much. by him things are good, by him I love the life he has given in me. but as for the world and the way people live it, I can not say the same.
yes maybe there has always been bad and evil. and yeah there always will be. but it doesn’t have to consume us.
this world (people) are drowning because we have simply STOPPED. we have become lazy and all we do is sit there and complain. we put no effort into anything. we say we care. we say we love. but do our actions show otherwise? ....more and likely the answer is yes it does, because look at this world.
right now...this very second someone has committed suicide because the people around them didn’t think about them but only thought about them self.
god will take care of you. if you will take care of each other he will take care of your needs. and I mean honestly...if he is taking care of you...don’t you think life would go so much better?
people just don’t get it. they don’t get what it means to love and be loved. they don’t get what it means to be a family or a friend. and because of that lives are being destroyed. families and relationships are lost. everyone is alone and on their own. no one is together. and if we are not together then we can not grow. if we can not grow then... we can not live.
you say you live your life for Christ... but by just posting a verse or talking about it with friends or in church... its not enough. you wanna change the world then get unstuck of your self and start seeking god. ask him to show you how to be a real friend. how to love. how to change. ask him to show you what breaks his heart. and what you can do for him. love him and let him love you and love for others will be a natural thing.
if we would start being real. start being in god and actually truly obeying him...
this world would not be the mess it is today. if we started respecting each other, lives would never be the same but only this time its for the better.
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