Where is your armory?

Ephesians 6:11, tells us to "Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes." But how do you put on your armor? You go to the armory.

Where is your armory? Have you ever been to an armory? You can't get armor, nor weapons, unless you go to the armory and have them issued to you.

The Free Dictionary.com defines armory as "a. A storehouse for arms; an arsenal." It is a place you have to go to, you can not get your armor unless you go to the armory.

I realized that the hard way when, recently, I found myself in a situation where I needed to cry out to God, with no one else around, I was without arms, and had no armor. I needed an armory, usually that place is on my motorcycle, but that wouldn't do, I needed a real place to cry out to God. My armory, I found in my closet. I put on some headphones, put on some worship music, cried out to God, and put on my armor.

Checking my willingness to change

So OK after last nights post, I think God was definitely checking my willingness to change!

It was a stressful day on the home front, but smooth sailing at work, but you see, I know how to handle myself at work. But this morning, I thought I checked for my ID card in my wallet, which you need to be able to get on base, and when I got to the gate, it was actually my AAA Card. No problem, I thought to myself, I will just work off of the network and get a bunch of work done, they will pull me over at the gate, check my other credentials and conduct the usual vehicle standard operating procedures, and I will be on my way.

Well, the problem began when I couldn't find my updated insurance card, what the heck man! I could not find it anywhere, so the gate guard sent me packing! I have worked there for 6 years! I am a former Marine! How could he turn me away? Especially after sitting in Fallbrook traffic to get on base, where it can take thirty minutes to go just a measly 1/4 of a mile. I was not happy. I cussed as I pulled away....

Repent Clay, don't you see it is not worth getting upset over? Isn't the Air 1 verse of the day "My child, listen and be wise: Keep you heart on the right course." Proverbs 23:19 NLT.

OK God, I am over it, he was just doing his job. I can do this. I went home, couldn't find my ID, I left it at work. I had to find my insurance card so I could get back on base.

Once at work, everything went smoothly. But when it came time to get off, all hell broke loose again. I won't go into details, but I think I did OK, I had to repent a couple of times, but I don't think I fully lost it like I would have on other days. Lets hope I learn this lesson fast because I don't like being pruned.

Change

As I sit here at my desk, feeling a lot like Doogie Howser MD, I am reminded of some revelations that the Lord gave to me today. Today in church, Pastor Todd talked about seeking out God and making Him the Lord of my life. That was particularly challenging for me, because for sometime I have been doing everything I can to change my home situation. I want more peace, less strife, a blessed marriage and all those wonderful things.

The problem is, I have been doing everything I can to change my home situation. But today, when a call to action was made by Pastor Todd to give everything to God, He asked for my situation, my thoughts, my feelings, all came to me at once and suddenly I knew that I had not let God change it for me, change starts with me! I am the head of the household and my kids are a reflection of me! I am not part of the solution, I am part of the problem. Wow God, that really hurt!

I am the one who wants things to change, I am the one who does this or does that, I am not going to go down the list of things that I do or don't do in my house, because I am the leading cause of the problem and when God showed me that today it kind of hurt a little, I guess deep down I knew it all along.

I am reading a book right now called Maximized Manhood written by Edwin Cole and I have been reading it for a long time, I decided today after church I would pick it up and read a few chapters, another blow to the gut man.... Edwin states in his book that "Change isn't change until it is change".

The change has to start with me, I am all talk at this point, what will happen when I am faced with a situation at home, and in the heat of the moment am I going to lose my cool and discipline out of anger, or love. When my wife doesn't do the things I think she should be doing with the kids, or whatever the case may be for that moment, am I going to yell at her and demean her, or love her.

Change isn't change until it is change.

I pray that I can put my money where my mouth is and truly let go, and let God.

The Big Bang Theory

You know it is funny to me how the big bang theory closely relates to Genesis Chapter 1? The more I study the big bang theory, that all these scientists have spent millions of dollars trying to figure out how the earth was created, someone who recorded what God told them to write THOUSANDS of years ago, before the Large Hadron Collider, and all these atom smashers were invented, wrote down how God said He created it.

I have been doing a lot of research and breaking it down verse by verse, so expect more to come from this blog post as I find more evidence of God's existence. Most people won't deny God's existence, but they deny Jesus, so my hope is that as scientist find more "hard evidence" of the creation of the universe, you will see that God doesn't lie about what He does, so why would He lie about Jesus.

On to Genesis 1:1-3, 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

In the beginnig God creates the heavens and the earth, the earth was formless and empty. Scientists know nothing of what was before this event, so they basically say there was a void, when the big bang happened, all kinds of things started to happen, BANG, God created it! After the bang, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. In the timeline of the universe seen here, there was a time when the universe was SO dense, light could not travel through it, so that lines up with, "dark was over the surface of the deep".

We also see that the bible says the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. I just found an article published in Nature News.com that shortly after the big bang, in spite of the extremely high temperatures, that the early universe did in fact consist of liquid, it was just as much a liquid as the water in a cup according to Dmitri Kharzeev, one of the scientist who smashed the atoms and discovered the liquid.

And in verse three God said let there be light, and there was. Now, as I said earlier, according to the timeline, there was a time when light could not travel through the universe, then as matter began to expand even more, it was finally to the point when light could travel from one end to the other, probably about the time when God said let there be light, is when I am guessing light could travel across.

Expect to see more from me on this subject, but I was just not able to let this thought become lost like all of my other ramblings.