“As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. "Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men." At once they left their nets and followed him."-Matt 4:18-20.
"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said that it'd be easy; they just promised it'd be worth it."-unkown
I have decided to go to Sunset Bible College in Pullyap(whatever you call it, its un-American) to become a preacher. Everyone says that I have potential and would be an awesome one. Mark Gilman told me that he could see me on CNN. Arlene even told me she saw it in me. I'm going with it. I'm going to quit my job, sell my villa on wheels, take some money out of my savings to pay rent. Their is no tuition, just have to pay for books. Life to me is taking risks and following my gut. I don't think about the future because that is for my Maker to decide. If it’s His will, I will have one and He will take care of me. Same with you too, all we need is to trust him, which is a hard thing for me sometimes. What’s the point of the future? I sometimes get caught up in society telling me that I need to conform to their game and not listen to God. Graduate college, get a professional job, big house, Ferrari, boat, a mocha latte double vanilla creme espresso. Heck with that I'm not like everybody else. All that stuff is meaningless to me. I wouldn't mind having a boat for fishing. I wonder what was going on in Peter and Andrew's mind when this Jesus from Nazareth told them to follow him? I mean a dude wearing flip flops with long hair sporting a beard asking to drop their jobs as fishermen to follow him. I think I would be in a pickle on what to do. I would probably have a puzzled dumbfounded look on my face. Consider what happened to Jonah. Maybe Jonah thought it was dangerous to go to Nineveh. But if so, how did he escape the risk? He boarded a rickety boat and set sail on the tempestuous Mediterranean. The boat came near to sinking, and Jonah was swallowed by a great fish. We can draw many lessons from his book, but perhaps the main lesson is that God can use even a man with no common sense.
The world says that if our kids fail at school it’s their fought. That's crap teachers are failing the students. Failing makes you smarter and stronger in a strange way. Some people don't take risks because they think they will fail. I have failed at many things, but I learned that failure is an event not a person. How do you know if you don't try? And if you do fail you learn, pick yourself up and try from a different approach and will excel with greatness. This is probably the biggest risk I have ever done in my life! I have no clue what’s ahead. I'm scared and nervous but determined. I see myself touching lost souls who are walking in the dark and I feel that God is leading me. I have always felt something for the ministry for the past 2 years but I didn't do anything about it. I'm looking forward to tomorrow and the promise that it brings.
