Insight... or not...

God is the deepest of all things. There is no end to the knowledge we can have about Him. No one will ever know the end of God, because it is impossible to find. Some people are very very shallow in their view of God, practically not following Him in any way, shape, or form. God is Everything. He is the beginning, and the end, and eveything in between. God is love. Love unconditional. And that is what i want to be. I want to Love everyone i come across. I don't care what people look like. i don't really even care what they are doing with their lives religiously. I mean, i obviously care, but it should have no effect on my thoughts toward them. 

I am an accepting person. In the past, i was easily manipulated, following the friends I thought i had, and befriending their friends, denying friendship with anyone they found unworthy. Now, and throughout my high school career, acceptance came naturally to me. Becoming a christian in my Late seventh grade year,  not knowing what i was actually doing, and becoming a Christian knowingly in the eighth grade changed my view of people. this was actually a recent revelation to me. i had never really noticed how much Christianity had changed me. how different my life actually was. Before, I could not have lived my days without friends, and rejection was always a huge factor in my life. Now, i am authentically changed, as accepting as I know how to be, and never rejecting a friend. not willingly, at least. there were times when, since i moved around so much, my contact with people drifted into nothingness. I always made new friends, tho. always found a way to satisfy my need for friendship. i always had someone, and was always willing to make firends. 

You see, i love meeting new people. Thats one thing i love about riding the bus to work. i always will have the chance to meet people. there is a neverending flow of people on spokane buses. And meeting people helps me to know that there is a chance that i can make an impact on the world.

Changing the world is one of my many, many life goals, though some are much less realistic than others. But God is there to help us reach those unrealistic goals. those goals that everyone says you can't succeed in. but of course you can succeed. As it is written in the bible, ANYTHING is possible with god. and by anything, God means anything, everything, every sound, every dream you could ever hope to have, is possible. ANYTHING AT ALL.

And God is always there to help. and always will be.

Forever a servant of Christ,
Aaron Jay

Christianity

Upon my continuing reading of “Blue Like Jazz”, I have come to realize that I share a lot of the same views as Donald Miller, the author. I have just read a part when he says that he doesn’t really support Christianity, because in the modern society, Christianity is a very fluid term. He supports Christian spirituality. That is taking the life of Christ and living it. Not, as viewed by many of the modern not Christians (for lack of a better term), living as a Christian that the modern world sees as rude, or arrogant. They have to know that you are a person who cares about them before they know that you are a Christian. Being a Christian in today’s society is a turn-off when it comes to friendship. No one wants to be friends with a radical Christian that doesn’t give a crap about anyone but themselves. I know I don’t.

 

But being a Christian is a bigger thing than just ‘being a Christian’. Its about acceptance, and about heart, and love. So from today, for a trial period, I am going to try to not be a hypocritical, stereotypical Christian. I am not going to seek out people to share my faith with. I am going to pray that people come to me. I don’t like talking to random people about Christianity right off the bat. I want to get to know them as a person before anything else. I need them to know that I sincerely care about them.

 

So that’s how I am going to live. I am going to be a God-seeking, not people-seeking, Christian with a mission. That mission is to share my faith with the curious. Not the unwilling to listen.

 

Until next time,

~Aaron Jay

The Beginning

This is the first blog outside of myspace I have ever written. Hopefully, these blogs will be inspirational. My goal is to touch lives with mine, and to help those who do not know Christ to come to know Him. I guarantee that some of the things I will write in these blogs will make little to no sense to some, but that is absolutely ok.

Anyways, here it goes….

 

I recently started a book called “Blue Like Jazz”. It is, I can honestly say, the number one most amazing book I have ever read. It is inspirational, yet a personal. I cannot even begin to describe the incredibility of this book. And I am only seven chapters into it.

 

The first thing I want to describe is my love for Christ.  Upon reading many books and inquiring as to the meaning of books of the bible, I have come to realize that there is SO much more to Christianity than Christianity. I know that that sounds vague, but I am being entirely truthful. Christianity as a whole is a belief in Jesus Christ as your lord and saviour. And to be entirely honest, I find that shallow. I mean, not that Jesus Christ is our saviour, but that that is how Christianity as a whole is viewed. In that context, I guess you could say Mormons ARE Christians, but not in the smaller context. Christianity as a religion, as opposed to a subtitle, is entirely different. Christianity as a religion, or as a relationship, as many like to refer to it, is much much deeper than that. Christianity is not just a belief. It is a faith. A vision. A way of life. Many people think of Christians as hypocritical, selfish, and naïve. And admittedly, many are. But not all of them. Not even most of them are. But the way that they are portrayed in modern day society, and the ones that actually get out into the world and do something about what they believe are the ones who are hypocritical. The ones who are selfish.

 

I know that many people reading this may have lost me a while back, so here is the general idea in a word.STEREOTYPES.  I know it is a strong word to use, and a lot of people don’t want to admit using them. I am included. But people do use them. Almost everyone does it. Viewing all teenagers as drugees or troublemakers, viewing older people as slow drivers, or viewing Christians as hypocritical.

 

Christians are viewed as hypocritical because, in many cases, they are. Many times, Christians go out into the world and bash on people. Gays, other religions, even just the unsaved. And when everyone knows that CHRIST IS LOVE, no one is going to want to be a part of a group of liars. A group of people who say that Christ is love and they are supposed to live like Christ, become like Christ, and yet all they see is the unforgiving, unloving side of the religion, which should not and ultimately doesn’t exist in a true Christian.

 

It is hard to reach out to people, especially when Christians pushed them away from Christianity in the first place. They are some of the hardest to reach, because they think that they have got it all figured out. That ALL Christians are rude, and not accepting people, when it is in fact the opposite. REAL Christians ARE loving. They ARE accepting. And theyARE forgiving. And they want nothing more that to help you to know that transformation. That eternal life that they are always talking about. It exists. You just have to know where to look. And they are there to help you find it.

 

Well, that’s all I’ve got to say for now. So, I’ll see you next time I have something to say…

~Aaron Jay