I was watching TV and it seems that all I see is constant complete competition. Who’s going to be the best? Even commercials!

Why in the world are people so concerned with that?

Duh! How do people start? Everything is developed to show children (who become adults) if they’re good enough!

Jesus said that the Kingdom of Heaven was for people who were like children. Good enough wasn’t part of that description.

So being good enough doesn’t impress God. If it did, Jesus would not have come and saved us because we weren’t being good when He came.

So finally I know why I’m here. I’m here to teach people that God doesn’t expect us to be the best. He expects us to have faith in Him, not in ourselves!

I got up late this morning. My roommate and her baby had gotten up before me.

When I went out there to eat breakfast my roommates child (who was up alone) kept looking at my cereal and at first I was afraid that she would try to take it but them I thought differently. I got her a bowl and her cereal and I poured some in that so that she could have her own and be happy.

Then it came to me that Jesus said to be like a child, so I thought To have her is quite a gift from God. I wouldn’t normally have her so I can do my best and be thankful.

What a wonderful gift!

God loves me and what I do is very important!

I just watched “Chopped” on Food Network. People came together to compete against others and impress the judges. Was one cook better than the others? I don’t know cuz I wasn’t there, I’m not a cook and I’m not a judge.

But the ultimate judge (who has been very kind to me) does live in me, so whether or not I can be a judge doesn’t matter.

People ALWAYS HAVE TO BE RIGHT AND PERFECT, but I was not right or perfect and yet He loved me. In fact to even come into this world He loved me and I wasn’t born yet.

So maybe it’s not good to have to be right or perfect, maybe I just need to love others cuz that’s the spiritual example that I have. We all have that same spiritual example. So maybe we should all be more concerned with loving others instead of trying to be right or perfect.

In this world we view things very differently. We seem to feel that we must be the best.

This morning I went to Church and in Sunday School we talked about that. Then tonight I was watching a show on Food Network called: The Worst Cooks in America and it was about that same thing. Here were normal people who came to this show because their friends or family think they are the worst cooks.

So naturally I assumed that the goal of the show was to help the worst be the best, but I have soon realized that the goal of this show was to teach someone how to appear to be the best!

One by one the people have been sent home as being “not good enough” or “the loser” so I have realized that the goal of the show is to make someone become “the best”.

That’s pretty common in our society. Everything that we do, from our birth, is based on measuring up to standards, societal standards. We have to be the best, that’s how we win. And we must win in Society.

Which is odd because according to Scripture God has given us what we do not deserve. So we know that we’re not the best and that’s ok because Jesus was so we don’t have to be. Which is what faith is all about! However, this world tells us that we have to be the best. So that standard is clearly not God’s and it’s not what faith is about.

So if God is not driving this, then who is?

As usual, I was thinking: how can people continue to do whatever they want and God just lets them?

And then I thought “Grace”. That’s what it means. He will evaluate each persons choices at the end so they can choose to do right and He will save them. That’s why I am alive.

So my evaluation is negative, but God gives us a chance to be positive.

From the time that we are born (or before…) the entire focus is on what we are able to do in comparison to others, which IS AMAZING because each individual is different. God made us that way.

To make sure that what we can do is developed and noticed by everyone we used to begin with kindergarten, but now we have preschool and even preschool on TV!

That’s what school is for, to show what we can or can’t do. Thus we have grades and even college.

And, to make sure that our evaluation is important, salaries are tied to it by extent of personal accomplishment. If you can do this, you’ll get this.

Society is totally tied to that and we set limits for ourselves on how far we can go and what we can do because our position within society and success are based on that.

None of that includes God. None. But as humans we strive to achieve things because success and status in this world are based on that.

Unfortunately success and status in God’s world don’t include that and our judge is God not society.

Hmm, that is somewhat confusing isn’t it?

Most people don’t think about that but that’s one of the incredible blessings of being who I am. As a human I did very well in school, college, work and everything else. I was a human star, but then I was beaten up and my brain stem was broken. Now I am handicapped and have many problems.

So am I still a star?

In this world no, but in God’s world yes.

How do I know that?

Well I can’t walk, I lost my job, I lost my wife, I lost my kids, I totally lost my education, I lost my sister and I lost my parents but I still have God.

Why do I think that I still have God?

Because everyone with human education said that I would die, but I’m alive. I was in a coma for 5 years but I’m fine now and it’s been 9 years. I have been diagnosed as having several deadly diseases but I’m fine. And when I came out of my coma I wanted a Bible and to go to Church. I have no memory of any bad things that happened to me.

I am also able to look at things much differently than I used to.

Life used to be about…but life now is very much a gift from God.

Now, let me tell you what I’m thinking:

When God created everything, the World, the Humans, Heaven & Hell, He also created the angels and one of those Angels as thrown out of Heaven because he thought that he knew more and could do better than God.

And even though God made hum leave Heaven God gave him Earth. And he still thinks that he is better than God. And he teaches humans to forget God and just do things on their own. Remember society and success? Seems a little too familiar to me…

But thankfully God is God. And we should never forget that!