Hi my name is Alice

Sometimes in life I feel like Alice from Alice in Wonderland.  You know in the beginning I am supposed to be doing what my mother says and the next thing I am on some wild goose chase looking for a rabbitt.  But most importantly she is looking for a Rabbitt that isn't even real.  None of it is real.  So all the mess ups that she has with the mad hatter, chessire the cat, and tweedle dee and tweedle dum aren't even real.  That is something we need to think about, on a wild goose chase for something that won't even matter the next day.  We as people are always chasing something whether it be the next fix, the next boy/girl, the next person that will make us happy, or even the next self help book.  In the Bible it tells us something about following the next self help book.  We need to remember that we can't do it by ourselves.  According to the message in Mark 8:35 it says "Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to saving yourself, your true self "  We can't help ourselves, we need Jesus.  See Alice thought that she would follow the rabbitt to a great place and then she ends up having to drink something to make herself smaller and than eat a cookie to make herself bigger and all the while she is going no where but in circles.  Sometimes my life feels like that.  That I am going in circles that I can't take the right way to get where I need to be.  I try to find my way but I can't.  Jesus is the way and the truth and we can't get to his Father except through him. 

This also makes me think of the song "The Way" by Jeremy Camp.  His way of explaining that Jesus is the way is remarkable.  What strikes me as odd is you would think this would already be burnt into my head but as previous blogs before I have told you over and over again I AM STUBBORN!!!  This is also something that was discussed in a previous lesson on a Wednesday night.  I know that he is the way.  I just need some help as do a lot of people realizing that I can't do life alone.  I need his help and I am not sure why it has taken me so long to actually realize this.  I can say until I am blue in the face that I can't do it alone I need God but until I actually profess it to him "God I can't do this alone I need your help," until I actually mean than nothing will happen. 

So instead of chasing a rabbitt that isn't even real lets chase God.