Secret Millionare

This show was very moving.  It shows people with millions of dollars giving a portion of their time and money to help people in need.  But something that I found more meaningful than the millionaire giving a little of his money and time, were the people who had their ministries already.  Like the Alexandria house, the basketball courts, and Amine.  These people do not have millions of dollars.  The lady from the Alexandria house and the men at the basketball courts live on skid row. EVERY day they are there. EVERY day they are possibly risking their lives for their communities.  EVERY day they are sacrificing their time and efforts to pour out their hearts to people.  Yeah its great of this guy to come in and give so much money, but I think the true heroes are the people living there. This reminds me of the story of the pharisees and the poor woman who were tithing.  A millionaire comes in and gives 100,000 dollars and is there for a week and gets a whole show about him, while the people living in Skid Row hardly get recognized for giving their whole lives.  Don't get me wrong I think that there needs to be both of these types of people and I can't judge either of them.   However it seems to me that love goes farther than money in the long run.  I imagine and hope that John continues to work with the homeless and help with their needs.  I do NOT think that we NEED to be recognized for what we do for Christ, but it shows what the world thinks of this topic.  To God goes ALL the glory!!

DWYL 6&7

In chapter 6 John Piper talks about forgiveness alot and how God has forgiven us.  And how forgiveness from God, gives us God.  Without forgiveness of our sins, we could never have God.  Our ultimate reward of forgiveness is getting God.  Not being able to live for eternity in heaven and not having to go to hell.  Not because it makes us feel less guilty.  HE is our treausure.  When we have sin in our lives a wall goes between God and you. Causing your relationship to not be as good as it could be.  When we repent and are forgiven the wall comes down.  In chapter 7 he talks about how we need to live to prove that He is more precious than our earthly goods.  This means that if people looked at me, what would they think was important to me. I believe that the person would think that I am consumed with worldly stuff. How i look, what I have, what people think of me, the grades I get, if I am good at sports, and many others.  I think that if people looked at how much I watched tv and was on the computer and then how much I was in the Word they wouldn't think i was different than the rest of the world.   I hate this because God tells us that we should feel like aliens in the world.  I know that I do not feel like an alien in Enid.  Maybe somewhere far away, but we should feel like an alien in our home town.  I feel like if we are going to feel like an alien we need to be different. Not necesairly strange to where no one wants to listen to us, but they need to know we are different.  I think a way we can do this is to change our influences.  We are influenced from things all around us of the world.  Such as tv and internet, or even the music we listen to. I think that is the biggest problem with tv.  It is influencing our thoughts without even knowing it is doing it.  It affects me in many ways.  I want to look like the girls on tv. Skinny, pretty, and rich.  It makes us want worldly goods and not the riches of heaven. We want tangible things that we can touch.  It also distracts us from what we need.  We want to watch a show, so we put off our homework. Then when it is time to do our homework and after that it is way to late to do anything else so we sleep. We need to have time for God.  HE is our treasure. Not worldy junk.