I was just repremanded by friends for not blogging more. I wonder why
I blog when I ever get comments, but I found out why no comments are
left:

1. "I will never comment on a blog. I comment in my head."

2. "I use Google Reader and I'm too lazy to click the "original post" link."

All that to say, you'll be seeing more posts on this blog.

:)

A friend from College and I were chatting online yesterday. We both expected to be living overseas, and now we're both in the US. He asked the question: "Do you feel God is calling you to stay where you are?"

God calls people to do things. God called Abraham in a special way and told him to leave his family, his country, and move to another place. Many people feel a prompting to go to another place, even another country to serve God.

But how often did God later give Abraham special callings saying "Just stay where you are."

God is really using us here and really blessing us here. I've always said that you should be open and sensitive to the Spirit's prompting, and if it's not prompting, keep doing the last thing it had you doing, and go by what you know is true for all believers.

Yesterday I got a new perspective.

I'm grateful for the times when I've sensed God wanting me to do something, go somewhere, or say something. But how selfish is it of me to want daily "Holy 'Atta Boys" of God telling me through some mystical experience that I'm still doing what he last led me to do?

The lesson I took from my youth was that God wanted me in a certain place geographically, so I seized that. I decided to pursue life overseas. I should have decided to pursue God's will wherever it might take me. Just because God uses you in one way, it doesn't mean he'll always use you that way.

Maybe you've gone on lots of missions trips in your youth and God will use you as a rock-star accountant. Or maybe you've just spent your youth playing video games, and God wants to use you to bring revival to Uganda.

I hear their ads all the time on the radio, and now my washer is broken. I signed up on the web page and got a call today scheduling a "free tour" visit for tomorrow evening. Then they found out that my wife wouldn't be able to make it and she canceled the appointment. It's required that we both be there.

What the....?

Sorry, I want to buy an appliance, not join a cult.

I just had two very nice young men from the Mormon church stop by. They gave me their little presentation, and I mentioned what happened last time Mormons came by.

We met with them for 7 weeks, so I could learn what their church teaches. Questions naturally came up based on our discussion, which they couldn't answer, like

• Do they believe God has a physical body? (They said one thing, the book of Mormon said the opposite)
• They say the best Mormons can reach the best level of heaven, and be the god-figure over a region in space, like God is here. Does that mean they teach that God was once a human-like being, born to a family on the planet of another Diety?

Today I was told again that they don't know.

Now, I'm agnostic about many issues in my faith, but not something so significant like this. the question is: is God just a territorial spirit, like dagon was to the philistines? is God the creator of all things, or is he just another created being?

Mormons and Christians (Ok, Mormons call themselves Christians... Chrisitans who do not accept the authority of the Mormon church) use the same words but mean completely different things.