Just do it!

Had a pretty relaxing weekend. Had myself a headache again, probably due to lack of sleep... so I didn't bother working much over the weekend. Just wanted to get well rested. Our little trip to Santa Barbara also help sooth both wife and I a bit too. The traffic wasn't all that pleseant, but gotta learn to go with the flow I guess! So I'm feeling all better now! Ready for another week of work! ;)

Chih-lin had to go to Buffalo for some training... so this weekend we only checked out a couple of opened houses ourselves. Considering all the financial turmoils going around, it's making it more difficult for us to figure out whether to buy now or not. US government selectively bailing companies out clearly wasn't working... the domino effect continues to cause bank failures... so now there is a more general plan to pretty much bail out everyone! But will this really work? Well, it better. Anyway, this grand plan has now weakened dollar to the point of increasing oil prices by $25/barrel. We can only hope everything works out in the end..., when we're ready to buy, we'll just have to buy!!!

Pastor Jim actually continued his sermon of 'hope', but he encouraged us to not just hope passively, but aggressively! Don't just allow our circumstances to dash our hopes. Use whatever God has given us, regardless of how little or insignificant. If we're faithful with little, surely God can still use whatever little that we have... and God might even give us more to be in charge of! Gideon had very little. He even had little faith, but at least he's aggressive! Wife tends to think he's kinda shameless! ;) But I think Pastor Jim made a great point, Gideon didn't really have our version of the Bible. How was he suppose to know if he's REALLY hearing God or perhaps he's just crazy...? ;) Surely that was the reason why God allow Gideon to test Him so many times. If our hearts are genuinely faithful, surely God understands if we want to be absolutley sure. As long as we are not dragging our feet because we don't really want to do it, surely being cautious is a good quality to have. We ought to follow God..., and not get over zealous to the point of getting ahead of Him!

Anyway, today's reading was more about Elijah and the beginning of Elisha. In a way I do kinda envy Elisha had a mentor to follow around. Even since of my conversion to Christianity, I don't think I really had a good mentor. I think for most of my life, I don't really have a whole lot of mentoring coaching... on relationships or career or whatever! Of course my parents did their best, but their experiences are limited too! But luckily God has put various individuals along different stages of my life to help guide toward the right dirction I suppose. Perhaps I'm more on the path of Elijah, rather than Elisha! ;) By faith, I know that God is my Mentor. I think what I'm missing is the voracity for God which Elisha has. What am I willing to DO for God? Am I willing to go to great lengths for God in order to get double, triple, quadruple the blessings? Well, I think so..., but thinking is different from doing! Well, here's praying that God is going to make me to just DO IT!

(1 Kings 19-22, 175.2 lbs, $3.819)