Jonah and the Big Fish and Me

Blog: Jonah and the Big Fish.

            Jonah 1: 1-3, “Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.” But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.”

            At the moment, I am in a 90 day Bible study in order to read the word of God in 90 days. This study plan has inspired me to start some other reading plans within the Bible. Today I started the Jonah reading plan. The plan is to read a chapter a day and to study it. Yes, Jonah is only four chapters long. It will be a good boost is confidence, helping me to finish the 90 day study, knowing that I have finished a plan (even a short plan as it is.) The very first three verses in this chapter grabbed me. God tells Jonah to go and rebuke Nineveh. It would seem that Jonah, without a second thought, ignored God and fled from him. When I read this I had to stop and pause. It hit me like a ton of steel bricks. I had to stop and ask, “WHY in the world would Jonah just up and ignore GOD!” at this same moment it hit me. This is what I do on a daily basis. I know that I am about to sin and the Holy Spirit say, “STOP IT!” yet I don’t.  I am a sinner like every other man in the world but I am without excuse. As a Christian who has been saved by the blood of Christ I have no excuse to do or to continue the evils that I commit. As I write this I am reminded of a funny skit buy Bob Newhart, I will post a video at the end. I also just finished Deuteronomy, which is about laws and its consciences, which has put more fear of the Lord in my heart. All I know is that for the rest of my life I will do the best to be perfect as my father is in Heaven. If God could say one thing to me about my sin it would be, “Stop it before I bury you alive in a box!”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow0lr63y4Mw  

Planetarium and Black Holes

                Today was a very productive day. After waking up early in the morning and switching cars with my father, my Mandala Classmates and I departed for the Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill, NC. It was an exciting adventure. The car I drove had three passengers. David my brother was in the front seat and Alec and Barnabas were in the back. We blasted tunes the whole drive there and stopped by McDonald for some breakfast. Once at the planetarium my class, with a few other different classes, entered into a giant dome room. This was the inner sanctum of the planetarium. The room was somewhere between 50 and 70 feet in diameter, with a giant dome ceiling. On this dome were projected stars and planets all within the Milky Way galaxy. Our planetary expert, Jack, took us through the Milky Way galaxy. He was kind enough to answer any questions that we had as well as to tell us corny jokes. After the program ended we braked for lunch. Lunch was uneventful. After the uneventful lunch we entered into the inner sanctum again. This time a nice lady, whose name is forever forgotten, explained to us, Black Holes. After a very interesting documentary about Black Holes we left.  I ended up listening to music by myself on the way back due to my passengers sleeping. Any how I am home after a long day and ready to pass out. It is only 5 pm. I feel like my old man. This world is very interesting to me. As a confessing Christian I am always skeptical of what scientists tell me about this world. It is also confusing to me when one scientist says this and the second scientist contradicts what scientist one said. So I took the opportunity to really learn about Black Holes on my own. What I found is not surprising. Every website I looked at talked like Black Holes were real but never said directly that they were real or even proved there existence. I stumbled upon this website, nature.com-Black-Holes, this website says that Black Holes do not exist and explains why. As of the moment, I do not believe in Black Holes but you, the reader, are welcome to believe in whatever you want. I want to end with this challenge. There are many truths out there and there are many lies and as a human being you need to seek these truths out. Take what you know and seek resources to answer your questions. Here is the challenge: Do not let society tell you what you should know, take the time and seek out these truths for yourself.

            “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

                                                            -Mark Twain.

New Times.

Today I start this blog again. I have been through many experiences and I am about to create some more. As a note to the things written before. I was in a time of emotions and hormones and the things written before do not relate to me today but the things that I wrote are still apart of me and so I leave them there. I am here to say something, that is why I have a blog but I dont know what to talk about at the moment. Look for future writings.