Thoughts and Ideas of A Princess: Love, Hope, Faith: God is intentional and strategic!

Thoughts and Ideas of A Princess: Love, Hope, Faith: God is intentional and strategic!: My trust in Christ has been reaffirmed by knowing that God, the creator of the universe, is strategic about life, he has planned it all out,...

The Story of King Tut

                                                                    King Tut
King Tut lived in a hut. In this hut he was called King. His parents gave him everything he ever could possibly want. Lavish clothes, plenty of food and toys. All his life people waited on his every beck and call. King Tut was a selfish King. He looked at his self in mirrors all day fantiscizin about himself. He ate all day. People from the village where ordered to come to King Tut's hut and entertain him every two hours.

King Tut never left his hut. He was told that if he ever left the hut he could not be King anymore. After King Tut's 18th birthday he decided to leave the hut anyway. Once King Tut left the hut, He felt free. He never realized how small his hut was, how trapped he felt. He first noticed the trees and the plants and the flowers. He felt the breeze and watched the sun as it began to set. King Tut marveled at creation. As he continued to walk around the village he saw children naked and hungry. He saw men fighting each other and women begging for food for thier families. He saw broken families, poverty and pain and all of this was only 2 miles from his hut. King Tut told the people that he would help them. But the people laughed in his face. The poor people of the village didnt know him as King.  In this place his identity didnt matter. King Tut became very ashamed. In his hut he was selfish, He helped no one, He ate more than he needed and he had more than enough, and just outside his hut were people starving and without anything. King Tut realized that he was never King at all. He was self consumed with himself. He never knew that the world was about things bigger than him. King Tut was humbled by this realization. King Tut hurried back home. He apologized to his family for his bad treatment and his selfishness. King Tut said he would gladly give up being King for he had done nothing for the people of his village. He now became Tut. Tut started working as a hunter in the village. He hunted and brought back food for all the people of the village. Tut finally was proud of himself. He was able to help others and provide for himself. Tut decided he wanted to explore more of the world and serve others. He realized that the world was so much bigger than him. When he was King Tut he thought the world revolved around him so the world seemed very small, but once he left his hut. He realized the world was so full of many things and he didnt matter. Tut was taught humility and service. Tut was given a second chance to live his life out with great purpose.

Sometimes we get like King Tut. We stay trapped in our own heads and think that we are the only things that matter. But once we step outside of ourselves. We are reminded that the world is going on whether we acknowledge it or not. Thier is work to be done. May we open our hearts to humility and service and live out our live with great purpose.  Amen

Great Purpose

We are built for great purpose. We are tried and broken. So that we may release our agenda and submit to our great purpose; God's will. It's crazy that though you may feel your calling is to be at the top of the law firm, become a rap star, or win the lottery, but instead God gives you 3 kids, no car and a husband who is suffering from alcoholism. In our dreams, in our agenda, pain isn't included. Things get better and better with time and we only feel closer and more successful by the minute. But is that how God works? A life without suffering, without difficulty? That sounds like a life without humans. Our Great purpose may not be the self centered purpose that you envision for yourself. But it is nonetheless yours to experience. Things begin to shatter when our perception changes (even when our circumstances stay the same). I present this idea that was ministered to me, may you and God wrestle with it and may the holy spirit convict you to will and to do what he calls you to. Jesus died on the Christ First and foremost that God's Glory would be shown. Christ saved us because only He (not us) should recieve glory for our souls saved from the wrath we deserve. He died for our sins and He rose. Christ did all the work, so Christ deserves all Glory all thanks. My life's purpose is to live serve and say thank you with the life He has graciously saved from the pit. All through history, massacres, genocide, plagues, pain, and suffering have occured. God could have stopped these because He holds everymoment in every place. But in some way that we cant percieve, These things were also part of God's plan. He recieved full glory even in these sufferings. Even if just one soul was brought to Christ. God is aware of his power. God is not scared of what we may think about Him. He is never ashamed and never unsure of the things that occur under His reign. He is not so concerned with our feelings that He alters his plan to protect our emotions. When it comes to Gods plan. God's plan is bigger than my parking ticket, God's plan is bigger than slavery (touchy I know). God is personal and He is yours He cares He loves you dearly that I do not deny. But God's work, God's purpose for my life isn't about me, it doesnt put my needs first. It puts God's glory as all that exists. So if you accept the challenge to wrestle with God just know that He wins. He reigns and He is about His glory, so your discomfort may just be part of the God's plan. So serve with a perspective that says "nothing I have, do I own for myself, all I have is because of Christ". As God's Glory Shines your great purpose is being fufilled.