I'm nothing special.

Today is pie day.

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I have memorized six digits of pie. Others have memorized 3756 times more than me.

Today is pie day.

3.14529

I have memorized six digits of pie. Others have memorized 3756 times more than me.

Pretty much what I am getting at is that my accomplishments aren't that great. Don't get me wrong, I am a pretty awesome guy. I've lived a more exciting life than a lot of 18 year olds. But my bests in every area will always be overcome by someone else's bests.

I don't like the mentality that “whatever you put your mind to you can do!”

It's a lie. It's like the American dream in word form. It's what parents tell their kids when they are little to try to inspire their kids. But really they are just setting them up for failure.

I am not trying to say this is a negative sad way. I am just trying to be objective.

Me as a person is not all that great. I have abilities and I can do some things, but really it is only by the will and grace of God that I can even stand. God can use me for His good purpose in anyway He chooses. But if I choose on my own to be a rocket scientist, or the next man to walk on the moon. I can't. I am not smart enough in mathematics to get someone out of this orbit. I don't think America, or anyone really sends people to the moon anymore.

I simply cannot do anything I set my mind too.

That thinking will only let people down.

I think that if we were a bit more realistic about how great we are, we might be disappointed less.

I can do a limited number of things well. Almost nothing great. Lots of things decently. Tons of things okay. Lots of things pretty bad. And so on and so forth.

God can have me anywhere or doing anything.

That is the thinking I want. I don't want to think of myself as being able to do whatever I put my mind to, ah I'd become this amazingly prideful person who probably couldn't make any friends without first giving up that thinking style.

Now. On to the next thing.

Three quotes that I love.

1.The Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
2.Lord I believe, help me with my unbelief.
3.Prone to wander Lord I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love,
Here's my heart Lord,
Take and seal it,
Seal it for thy courts above.

The first one states that we are stuck in our sinful mortal bodies and that as soon as we give our lives to God temptation doesn't go away, yes, sometimes God removes it from our lives, but we are always drawn to sin, even if our spirits are drawn to Him. It is a struggle we will have until we die and our spirits are freed from our sinful dead bodies.

The second one agrees with that and it adds the fact that we will always fail. We can believe but we are stuck in this sinful world and it is a constant pull between, I want to let go, I want to trust, I want to believe, and I just can't. We won't ever fully get it right..

The last one says what it is all about. We are prone to wander, and leave the God that we really do truly love, and it's all about just giving our heart to God, coming before Him, and saying, “here is my heart Lord, take and seal it. Seal it for thy courts above. I am fully yours Lord. No matter what I say or do in anger or pain. I want you to be the only one who holds my heart.

I love those quotes. They work together so beautifully, they all just came to me the other night in the car. I want to write a sermon on them.

Goodnight, sleep well, most likely kill you in the morning.