The Danger Of Comfort.

Due to my recent hand injury, (explained in the previous post. read for full details.) I’ve been thinking a lot about life and how precious it is. how easy it is to loose it. It takes 9 months for a husband and a wife to bring an other being to life but it only takes seconds for it to disappear. I know it is kind of a “clicher” to say this because it’s been said so many times, probably because it’s true but you never know what you have until you loose it. Sometimes we get so comfortable with what we have and what possess that it get dangerous.

See, what we need to realize is that familiarity, apathy and comfortability can be more dangerous then we think. Let me explain! Once I started to work there, I didn’t really know how everything worked, where anything was kept as well as  how to do anything. As the days and weeks even months went on, I kept on learning new things and new ways to get work done by taking short cuts or prioritizing my work in a certain way. Some of the machinery that we use we need to be alert and careful with due to the danger that could and can occur. (The results speak for themselves.) Unfortunately, i got to comfortable with one of the machines, thinking that i could just be relaxed while using it, not really being careful and alert to my work. Well we all know where that led me.

The same thing goes on for everything in our lives especially when it come to our relationship with Christ and dealing with sin. If sin is not dealt with right away and cut off from our lives, it can very well mean our life or even our salvation. We come to church services and at first it’s exciting and fun but then you get familiar with it. You let your self become apathetic towards God. We need to be alert and aware as Christians because sometime live can throw stuff our way and if we aren’t ready for it, it can take us out. Some of you may be living in sin and are thinking, “i’m ok, Jesus knows my heart. He forgives.” You need to shake your self out of that mindset and take the steps necessary in order to get your life back on track before it catches up to you and believe me it will. I’m not saying this to freak you out or to condemn you. I am rather saying this from experience and out of love! Hope you were blessed by this.

-Phil Jean

Tags: Apathy, Comfort, Danger, Injury, Life, Work

Hand Injury.

So as many of you might know, I have had an accident at work last Monday. Without going too much in details, I got my hand caught in a machine at work, broke my thumb at 2 different places, I broke my index at 1 place and also had to get 7 stitches on my index. When i went to emergency they stitched me up and put my whole hand and forearm in a temporary cast until I could see the doctor again this week. I had an appointment with a plastic surgeon/hand specialist yesterday to remove my cast and he said that everything was healing nicely and the my thumb looked really good considering what it looked like in the X-Rays. My hand is currently in a removable device so that I can take my hand out and do some exercise with my fingers. Unfortunately the doctors are saying that i may have a severed nerve since I cannot feel anything on the right side of my index meaning i will need surgery on it so they can sow the nerve back together. I have to go back next Monday so the doctor can look at my hand again and decide if i need surgery or not. I personally believe in a God that is greater then all this and can supernaturally heal My hand and nerves to an even better state then it first was. Thanks to everyone that has been praying for me this whole week. God Bless

-Phil Jean

Tags: Danger, Injury, Life, Work

You May Have Been Set Up… (Part 2)

Sometime we get setup Because God is getting ready to move in a mighty way and you will be blessed in the process. Maybe He is wanting to make Himself known to others around you but it will take you to be setup in order for Him to show Himself through your trials.

God is always looking for someone to shine through. If asked by God, would you be willing to go through the hardship in order for Him to shine? Is your financial income more important than for God to shine? I believe that God is ready and willing to bless each and everyone of us, if only we will let His light shine through the process!

Are you willing to be setup?

Tags: Blessing, Hard Times, Jesus, Life, Persecution, Set, Up

You May Have Been Set Up… (Part 1)

Ever been at a point in life where everything was just hard? It seems like life is falling apart. Friends are leaving you, you get fired or laid off, money doesn’t easily get around for you, etc… What ever the situation that you went through or are currently going through, I want to challenge you today with a thought!

I want to specifically address the hard time that we are experiencing financially. I was just having a meeting with one of my worship leaders and the subject of trials and persecution came up. Then we went on the subject of the financial state that we are in as a nation. Maybe you are reading this and you have lost your job for what ever reason, I know that this may be hard to believe or to think about. You may say, well that is easy for you to say Phil because you still have a job. Please just try to hear me out.

What if… God is trying to set you up?

Honestly, just take a second and think about it. Wha if God is trying to set you up for a blessing. What if in order to bless you, God had to remove you from where you were? What if He’s got something better for you? What if you dare to believe that God is a good God? What if…?

Tags: Blessing, Hard Times, Jesus, Life, Persecution, Set, Up