What a Wonderful World

God created you to be the best you that you can be!  Never tell yourself what you can’t do.  Everyone is not able to make a fair assessment of your talents so don’t worry about people who determine your abilities by what they see on the outside.  If they could see what God has put on the inside they would be speechless.  Know that your abilities are God given, and if God gives them to you then once you use them to glorify Him, you will close the mouths of the lions that were seeking to devour you!

Good day to you all!  Use your energy to lift someone up today!  It doesn’t have to be someone you know, because at some point someone that you do not know is going to lift you up!  You have the ability to make a difference in someone’s life in an amazing way!

I don’t know much about history

I don’t know much of biology

Don’t know much about a science book

I don’t know much about the French I took

But I do know that I love you

And I know that if you love me to

What a wonderful World this will be-Sam Cooke “What A Wonderful World”

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. 1 John 4:9-12

If you watch the news for any amount of time, it would not be hard to convince you that we live in a troubled world.  We often hear people talk about today’s day and time, often following up with stories that paint the picture of past days that were perfect. The old school crowd in 2012 like to tell young people about how good it was twenty years ago.  I remember twenty years ago I had people tell me that in the 60’s things were better than they were in 1992.  Every generation has revised the history of when they grew up, because being a student of modern history, I can tell you that each generation had its own problems.  From lynch mobs terrorizing share cropping families, to foreign terrorist attacking American buildings, each generation has been through a lot, but you would have a hard time trying to find the generation that lived in a perfect world.  We have had generational trends in fashion as well as well as music.  My parents who found my rap music unbearable in the 90’s had parents who found Little Richard and James Brown unbearable.  I must admit that personally I like to go back and listen to Sam Cooke sometimes.  When he sings of what a wonderful world it would be if only he knew that the one that he loved, loved him back.  Imagine love being the cure for everything that we see that is wrong with the world.  Oh what a wonderful world this would be!

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.  1 John 4:16

Dear Reader I want you to know what a wonderful world this is!  God loves you, and has loved you before you were even formed.  God loved the very thought of you. You may not know much about history.  I confess that I don’t know a thing about Biology. I took French, but I couldn’t tell you a thing about it.  However, Dear Reader, I told God because you loved me first I love you, and I know that if you love me too, that there is nothing that this world can do to me, and this place will transform from a treacherous, nefarious, place to a wonderful world almost overnight.  My mama might not know who Big Daddy Kane is, but me and my mama both know who the Heavenly Father is so we both share in this wonderful world.  You may like Sam Cooke, or you may not, but Dear Reader if we can assemble un the umbrella of God’s favor, then what storm need we fear?  When God is the director of the movie, it doesn’t matter what the actors do because as soon as someone does something that is not in the script, God is going say, “Cut!”    It’s not about who is in the movie, it’s all about the director.  Dear Reader if you let God direct your life, you will find out that He is also a great producer.  I may not know a lot, or have a lot, but Dear Reader I love God, and if God loves me too, what a wonderful world this will be!

You are beautiful, loved, and blessed

John Reed