What's the Point?

I recently receive a letter from one of my uncles about my blog.  When I started this blog it was going to be my online journal so to speak.  I felt the tug of the Holy Spirit was prompting me to share my story not for sympathy but to encourage others. 

For many years I have felt that the real purpose of the church has been lost.  As I read the book of Acts and what the church was and did, I feel discouraged.  The church took care of each other, they took care of the widows, the sick, and the poor. They gave of themselves freely and openly and without shame. 

So what is the point of my blog? It is simply this...

The people (that is us) are the church. The church is the Bride of Christ. We are called by the Holy Spirit to be like the first church. So I share with you so that in times of need you all know that I will be here for you praying for you.  There is no shame in your struggles, I believe that the shame is that we feel like we can't share them with our fellow believers.  I hope that by reading what is in my heart and soul that you will be willing to take the risk and be vulnerable before God and your brothers and sisters in Christ. 

2 Corinthians 12: 9 and 10, tells us:
But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

How wonderful it is to know that when we are weak, God is making us strong.

The Bible also tells us in Philippians 4: 6

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and petition, and with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ.

We have to present our requests specifically.  I know that God already knows what we want but there is something about openly proclaiming it.  He knows but He still wants to hear us ask him.  Anyone who is a parent understands that.  We know our kids want the cookie but we make them ask anyway.  God wants us to come to him as a little child.

Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." Matthew 19:14