May 31, 2011

• Dunkin Donuts

  I have a friend who is obsessed and in love with Dunkin Donuts. I didn't know that about him and I was so surprised at how much he was in love with Dunkin Donuts. The way he zealously talked about it and even how he said it was better than Krispy Kream began to spark my curiosity and my appetite. He talked about it with such love and so high a praise that I wanted Dunkin Donuts myself though I have never tried it. Then, we were devastated when we learned that California has no Dunkin Donuts and the closets one is in Las Vegas. I never would have decided to go to Dunkin Donuts on my own whim, but because my friend praised it so much, I just have to try it now for myself. Therefore, we planned a trip to go to Las Vegas just to try out Dunkin Donuts(although we also decided to reach out to people while we are there, for the glory of God ) But God used this event to spark questions in my soul. The questions are, "Do people feel the way I felt, when people hear and see our praise and love for Jesus Christ? Are we so crazily obsessed and in love with Him that people around us are beyond curious in the Object of our praise? We say we love Him, but is He seen as surpassingly valuable when we speak of Him who we love the most? DOES OUR TALK ABOUT GOD SALIVATE THE SOULS OF THE PEOPLE AROUND US?" Does it? If it doesn't you NEED to ask yourself, WHY?

   

  Dear God,

  Another summer has begun, my life in Your hands, I am excited for the God glorifying dominoes yet to fall. I want to love You more than I do now, this is my plead, I want to grow closer to You more than I am now and I'll be freakin honest, I struggle. I struggle horribly in my life to keep together this sweet and beautiful relationship that I have with You and NOTHING is greater or more valuable or more precious to me than [THIS]. It is this relationship that I count all other things as loss and in my single minded pursuit of You, in making You the sole-weight of my life I know that there are certain things, certain kinds of movies and music and and YouTube videos and manga and games and other things in my life that don't help me at all to get any closer to You. As a matter of fact some of these things actually steal my affections for You, they ruin [this] and my joy I have for You and it causes me to struggle in staying close to You and I DESIRE earnestly to stay close to You and delight in You and keep enjoying You more and more because I know there is more and more of You to be had. There are things that stir my affections for You and I know there are things that steal my affections for You. Why do I do what I do? So I plead with you Abba, help this wandering heart of mine because the fibers of my being are foolishly prone to wander and leave You whom I love. Continue to refine me and shape me into the man You have planned for me to be, as I have already said, my life in Your hands. Oh I love You because infinitely more You loved me first. Selah. 

  a redeemed sinner,

  Jean Patrick Fisher

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