So today I realized that it’s mathematically impossible to prove if a day was good or bad. Let me show you how it works
So lets break the day into three parts.
Morning Afternoon Night
Then for each part, we give it an amount of how good it was; the options being Wonderful, Great, Good, Nice, Ok, So-So, Fine, Not so good, Bad and Terrible. That’s from best to worst. So respectively those could be turned into fractions; 10/10, 9/10, 8/10, 7/10, 6/10, 5/10 4/10, 3/10, 2/10, 1/10 in that order.
Morning Afternoon Night
Great Good Terrible
So mathematically
Morning Afternoon Night
Great Good Terrible
9/10 8/10 1/10 =18/30 = 6/10 = Ok day.
So that day should have been ok. Now tell me, what will your friend say if you ask them at the end of the day how it was? Terrible! There is almost no way they are going to say it was an ok day. They will be so caught up in what most recently happened to them, that they will say it was a bad or terrible day. It also works the other way. Watch
Morning Afternoon Night
Terrible Bad Great
1/10 3/10 9/10 =13/30 = 4.3/10 =Fine day
But once again, if you ask them how their day was, they probably won’t say it was fine, they will say “It was GREAT”, because they will be so caught up in the moment, or of what has just happened.
This is how our world is, or usually. We don’t stop to think of all that has happened in our day, just the momentary. Or we don’t even care. People will ask you how your day has been, and it could be terrible all day, and you will say “ok”. Or it could have been wonderful all day, and you will say “ok”. It just goes to show how asking someone how their day has been is never very accurate. Then there are those of us who will only focus on the bad, no matter how much good has been in their day, they will say it’s bad. So really, all I have done, is confused you about life, and proved that we need to really ask people, and listen when we ask how their day has been. What they say often isn’t the full story.
Recently I’ve been going through the book of Ezekiel. In it I read this
Ezekiel 13:13-14
” ‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: In my wrath I will unleash a violent wind, and in my anger hailstones and torrents of rain will fall with destructive fury. I will tear down the wall you have covered with whitewash and will level it to the ground so that its foundation will be laid bare. When it falls, you will be destroyed in it; and you will know that I am the LORD.
I found it interesting. At first I read it thinking that God is talking about a building, and a literal wall. I figured he actually meant that he was leveling a wall to the foundations because he was angry. But, after a while I realize, “of COURSE that isn’t what he means”. What I see him talking about; is me. He is saying “Spencer, when you anger me a lot, I will unleash a terrible fury on you and it will strip you down to your foundations.” I read it and think, “God is going to lay me to waste and strip all the excess, until it’s just the basics.” It kind of puts the phrase “back to basics” into reality. So I had read this, and thought that, and then I went to youth group.
At youth group we talked about Jesus, imagine that. We talked about the wise and foolish builders that Jesus talks about. Here are the verses.
Matthew 7:24-27
“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”
We started talking about this, and I thought, “WOW this totally relates.” Or at least, in my mind I can connect the two. So let me try and ramble my nonsense here.
You are a man, a wise man, or a smart man. You build yourself a house (or life). You build it on a rock (God) or your own things (sand). Some of the things you might be building it on if you are building it on God are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control………in other words the fruits of the spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) On the other hand, if you are building it own your own things, they might include, money, possessions, friends, greed, hatefulness, envy, lust, religiousness or other things. I know a lot of people try and build there life into security by having back up funds, good friends, be religious and have a nice house and such, so that nothing bad can happen. But they are wrong, a lot of bad things can still happen.
God said “In my wrath I will unleash a violent wind, and in my anger hailstones and torrents of rain will fall with destructive fury. I will tear down the wall”
That doesn’t sound good to me. I am guessing your back up funds and nice house aren’t going to last long against God’s weather. But what is he really saying? Surely he can’t be meaning that he is actually going to send a wind and blow your house over. No, I doubt it. I think he means your lifestyle, your box, so to say. God wants you to have a strong foundation so that the rest of your life will be content. He is the only thing that will provide that base. When God is talking about blowing down your house, he isn’t saying that if you have a trust in him your house will survive storms. He is saying your life will continue in peace and contentment. Your house my have something happen to it, you might have someone close to you die, you might have a big problem arise, but he will be there. That is what he is saying.
Even when a storm arises and tries to blow your “house” down, you can continue knowing God is there with you, helping you live and love, your life will continue, not fall.
So what is this about God destroying your wall in Ezekiel? Well I think he is talking about when you build your house on the wrong base. Or change your base. Say you have God as you savior (your rock) and you began to build your house on it, and then you branch off. You add an addition to it that’s on the sand, and you start to add more and more to the sand and began to live your entire life in that extension on the sand. It might be anything that you’ve added, money, possessions, religiousness, whatever it is you have made it the focus. God is saying, or I believe, he is saying that he will send a violent storm to break the entire house apart. Your life will be utterly destructed until all that is left, is your faith in God. Then you can start over, with the strongest base possible, again. God is breaking your world, your box, apart so that you can start over. Hopefully you will do better this time.
So that is what I think these verses are saying. Sorry that it was so long. I haven’t updated in forever and so I guess my mind had just been waiting to share a lot. Hopefully I’ll get around to updating this thing more and more again.
