Tag Archives: Jesus Christ

Dec 5 2011

Lost=Found

Because I work the closing busser shift at the Red Robin I work at, there are many nights that really end up being mornings when I leave. This morning was one of those. I am an orderly person, and make it a point to try to follow a routine. One of my favored activities is unwinding over a weak pot of Denny’s coffee at my local Denny’s. There just so happens to be one less than 100 yards from the back door of Red Robin and I find myself there at least 3-4 times a week. I rarely eat, and when I do, it’s to pay my share of the light and heat bill that I use drinking my coffee the other times I am there. I sit at table 61, and am greeted by either Sam, Chelsea, Gene or Vicky. They all know me, and many of the regulars are there when I arrive.

 

I’ve spent the last 7-8 months in talks about relationships, church, life and things in general that interest people. Particularly the Denny’s “crew.” Since I’ve been there, 1 man has found Jesus 2 closely following. Church, God, and how the local church family affects our city are common topics around the table. This morning I had a chance to talk with some people who were getting off shift. Tho the conversation didn’t go very far, the seed was still planted.  It brings me great joy to see the Great Commissions followed in this one thing, going. Jesus said go into all the world and preach. He never said find a way to make people come to you, he said go to those people. After a while you will draw people, but that is in its own time and season.

Granted a little random, but when cut to the chase, there are so many lost people in this world. As long as Denny’s coffee is 2 bucks, you’ll find me there.

Your job?  GO – find your own Denny’s, or wherever. Doesn’t matter. Location is not the issue, the destination is….

Nov 29 2011

Need there be more said?

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
Aristotle

 

This could be taken two ways. One as a more or less cry out for an obviously psychotic human being who bemoans the existence of his life, or two as one who appreciates statements such as these for the truths they hold. In this case, I am the latter.  Why? Aristotle is simply making this point- when it comes down to it, there are few things that actually matter to you a great enough deal that you trouble yourself with them. It is to these things that a man may give his life to, simply because he knows that all the rest of the other things he rejects are not worth wasting time or living for.

 

The cool part of this, is that rather than this be a statement of earthly goods, and it definetely applies, it is also a statement of your walk with the Lord. The earth would offer things that really mean nothing. But when it comes down to it, a man died for your sins. Gave a life that was his to give, one without even a mistake to blot its perfection. Life isn’t worth living, unless it is lived in light of the finished work of the cross, focus on that and you cannot really go wrong.

Nov 23 2011

This spot not only marks history in the course of lifetime for this blog, but one in my own personal history as well. As seasons change, the environment around them is affected. For me, my season has been uprooting, planting, working, moving, changing, even as a farmer would his land in hopes for a good crop. This small season is now past, and I will yet walk this road again on magnitudes and scales increasingly greater than before. But the effects live on, now is the time of shifting. A shifting of focus, a new perspective. Asking questions such as why. Why do I do what I do? Who am I? Is God necessary, etc… All of these legitimate questions. …..I know little, but without question I know this- God is real, I am helpless without him, and both together in the course of obedience can impact a world crying out for something readily available, yet so withdrawn that the place where we are struggles to survive. Join me, in the new pursuit of my life, and this blog. From me, to others.

 

-Canaan M. Hackler