GodnHiggy

Don’t miss it. If we do we are sinning. If we can’t hit it, Jesus knows how and wants to help us. So we can keep trying if we want to but after 55 years I can vouch for the fact that we aint ever gonna hit it. Give Jesus the crossbow and let Him do the shootin’. Yer awesome.

I remember as a kid in middle school reading a book titled “On The Beach”. It was about the aftermath of a nuclear disaster. I think about that story sometimes and how it all may end someday.  As I sit on the beach this morning I watch the waves continue to wipe away the footprints that others leave as they walk past, leaving every grain of sand laid out in perfect smothness. Everything ends.…

Just Sittin’ Here…

Its the week before my 56th Christmas and I am only recently reaching for an understanding of God’s love. For years life has been one pursuit after another, this job and that hobby, this degree and that coaching position, this toy and that trip.  But I am now pursuing the love of God, the knowledge, the experience and the revelation of its reality. Want you join me? Yer awesome.

Did you really ever stop and think about the Holy Spirit living in you? Has it ever sunk in that God lives inside of you? (1 Corinthians 3:16)If you believe He does…He does. That sounds too simple for the normal christian but I had to get with it or nothing in life was worth seeking. The Holy Spirit is mentioned in many and maybe even most christian conversations and church meetings….but the…

Prayer and Praise. I have often wondered whether what I was watching people do in church is real or fake. I think maybe the answer is yes. One of the scriptures that has always grabbed my heart is when Jesus is talking about the Pharisees praying in public just to be heard. For some reason that principle is hammered into my head. Jesus even sometimes tells the people He has healed not to go tell…

Sometimes it seems as if we are going nowhere. We get up. Go to work. Come home. Eat. Sleep. Do it again. We have heard it told a thousand times before. But within that seeming little existence is where God is found. I have found that He does not care what it feels like to me. He is there. At all times. I think maturity, or should I say older age, has a way of testing our resolve. What I am…

Walking: Parts 1 and 2

This topic of conversation about walking started a couple of days ago. I had read 1 John 2:3-6 and was struck by the comment that we should walk as Jesus walked. I understand that His commands bring a good life to us but in this passage I saw that following His commands is how we know that we know God. That is a pretty simple plan. Then in Verses 7-8, John first says that he is not giving us a…

How to walk in faith.

I am always amazed at the following conversation…. Joe says “Hey would you do me a favor?” Joe’s friend says “It depends.” No faith. None. Nada. Keiner. Aucun. Ninguna. Zaden. If you want to hear the rest of the story email me at [email protected]. Yer awesome.

If you are a Christian then you are a child of The King. If you don’t want to believe that, this isn’t really going to help you. But I at least should point you to Revelation 1:6 before I get to far along so that we will have at least one scripture to work from. There is more confirming Word concerning our being royalty, but this one can be the door we walk through. So if we are children of a…

Where Do I Start?

I get sick of starting over. It seems like a new idea, starting a new project, developing a new relationship, etc are often birthed in hope and die in time. I love new ideas and new challenges but connecting the beginning seed with the ending fruit very seldom happens. Ezekiel seemed an unlikely place for me to hear from the Father about fulfilling a vision but as Ezekiel listened to God, the…

Seniors listen. Do you hear that. If you listen quietly, if you can focus amid all of the distractions, all of the running as the last few weeks of high school slip past you can hear a voice whispering. It is really more of a feeling than a whisper. It kind of feels like a hole is opening up and life is slipping through and there is no way to stop the small trickle from becoming a rushing water.…

Sports is a huge industry in our world today, particularly youth sports. Millions play. I remember my kids playing and how as a parent I jacked it all up. I have since learned that the experience of youth sports is a great place to follow in Jesus footsteps. Jesus said to the disciples “Follow me.” If we said that to the kids, we might get it righter. I wish that I had done a better job. Thank…

James tells us that wisdom is the key thing. The younger brother of Jesus tells us that wisdom is more important than material things. And all we have to do is ask God. James should know because he lived with Jesus his entire life. Jesus always had the wisdom. He probably did not always want to hear what Jesus had to say but after Jesus died and His influence lived on, James  saw that wisdom was…

James, Trials and Joy 1:2-4

God is offering us everything, lacking nothing. But there will be a joy in the trial. Finding joy in the trial means we have seen a vision of better days.This vision causes the trial to pale in the light that the vision  casts. To be able to see the vision we must walk in light. We must be able to see and since we can not see in the dark, we have to use the vision as that light. This means the…

Law – someone telling me what to do. Faith – me knowing what to do without anyone telling me. Obedience is better than sacrifice for learning the ways of God. In other words, it is better for me to learn from others than to do the trial and error method of learning myself. The greatest “other” to learn from is God. After all He created us. And He sent His Son to teach so we have no excuse. This…