i shall not be in want...

I think it's time a got serious about working on my spiritual discipline. I need to form the habit of giving time to God every day. I've never been one to have very much discipline in my life. Not to say that i've been a very undisciplined person, per se. But in terms of keeping commitments such as finishing a devotional book, or daily prayer time, those are things i've never been able to keep up for more than a few weeks at a time.

I've been taking a Sunday School class on spiritual habits and discipline for the past few weeks at my church. I've been learning a lot, but the most prevalent lesson to date has been the importance of keeping the discipline of daily devotions. It's obvious that it's hard to know what God's will is unless you spend time with Him. I guess all my troubles with finding a job, not knowing what my purpose is or where i'm supposed to be, etc.... all that is probably the result of not having a regular quiet time.

Starting now, (famous words, eh?) i'm proclaiming to God and the world wide web, that my daily devotion time is now 7 am on days that i work, and 8:30am on days that i don't work. I think that's reasonable. My prayer is that God will enable me to do this.

The book i picked to study as a devotional is "The Man God Uses" by the Blackabys, the guys who wrote Experiencing God. Even though we shouldn't judge a book by it's cover, the title seems appropriate. This is one of the books i've started but never finished. Hopefully this time around i'll be able to get to the end without giving up or missing a day.

The other thing that i'm going to work on is keeping a regular journal. I guess i could just use this blog as a journal.... But do i want to blog every day? I guess a lot of people do it.

Of course it's going to be hard, but what on Earth is worthwhile that isn't hard? Plus, I believe this is something that God wants me to do, so technically I should get all the help i need to accomplish this from God Himself.

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Scotiabank, where are you? Ok, it's been a week. Maybe i should call them. Yes, i will. I'm marking it down on my list of things to do tomorrow. Although i've been learning to be patient and content with God's timing, i still think it's my responsibility to at least follow up on the interview.

Hmm... while i'm at it, i guess i'll take this time to list some thoughts that have never had the chance to leave my head since i've started working at Rogers....

Here's something that makes my day:

On days that I open the store, i have to get there by 8:30 am so that the store can open at 10. I don't know how many times this has happened:

1. Customer walks up to the door and pulls on it, only to find that it's locked.
2. Customer looks at the store hours and realizes that the store doesn't open until 10am.
3. Customer pulls on the door again.

Here's a call that i got, almost verbatim, when i was in the middle of opening the store a couple days ago:

9:03 am, 57 minutes before open... phone rings.

D: "Hello, Rogers Video Stittsville. Dave speaking, how can i help you?"
c: "Yes, what time do you guys open?"
d: "We open at 10 am."
c: "Oh, so you're not open yet?"
d: "Sorry, no. We don't open until 10am."
c: "I see... you don't open until 10am. Can you tell me if you have Sponge Bob on DVD?... Which ones do you have? can you put some aside for me?"

... more to come later....

dum-dee-dum...

I just got back from my 3rd interview with Scotiabank. I hope they like what they saw. But i think, from the way the interview went, if they had any reason to not hire me, it'd be for my lack of experience. But still, it's a trainee position i'm going for, so hopefully they'll look past the inexperience and see the potential.

Other than that, i guess lately i've been learning to trust God throughout this whole ordeal. I mean, he's the one in control of everything. Do i really need to worry when i know he's got everything under control? I guess not, when i think about it. God knows me better than i know myself, i'll just lift this matter up to Him and he'll put me wherever i'm most suited, in order to bring Glory to His name.

On a completely different note, ever heard of this movie called "The God Who Wasn't There"? Terrible movie. It's documentary done by this guy who seems bent on exposing the Christian faith for what it "really is"... a myth. He says that Jesus Christ never existed. How does he go about proving this? By postulating that Christianity and the death and resurrection story bears a striking resemblance to other myths from other cultures, therefore, Jesus Christ must be a myth, too. Then he goes around interviewing Christians coming out of a Billy Graham crusade, asking them if they've ever heard of the myths he's comparing Christianity to. Of course, most people don't know about them. So therefore, he concludes that Christians don't even know where their faith came from. Of course, he's assuming that Christianity did stem from ancient Greek mythology.

Another thing that bothered me is his argument that Christians have an obsession with blood and violence. How, you ask? Simply because The Passion of the Christ, by far the bloodiest and most violent movie about Jesus ever made, was also the highest grossing in terms of box office sales. Based on that fact alone, he concludes that Christians are obsessed with blood and violence.

And those aren't even the most aggrevating parts of the movie....ugh! don't watch it... complete waste of time.

hai... so many things wrong with this movie and this guy. I feel sorry for him. I really do.