My Blog is my "Thought Filter"

There are a few things you must know about...moi!

1) i LOVE to write!!

2) i LOVE to serve!!

3) i enjoy giving!!

4) i enjoy dancing like a crazy person every once in a while!

and last but certainly NOT least...

5) i'm always, always thinking!!

Thinking is probably the 2nd main thing that i'm doing. (from the outside i may seem quiet, shy, and maybe even alittle boring at times!....) but thats because i'm constantly thinking!! Sometimes all the thinking over powers my head and my mouth goes on snooze mode.

but being quiet was already covered in an earlier entry! haha

THINKING. QUESTIONS.

All kids are full of questions! each of them being very important to them in their own way! As you get older your thinking grows deeper, more critical, and much more serious. Some people joke around about having a "dumb" or "stupid" question...well, i don't believe in such a thing! ha! i will admit though, that some people tend to ask relatively "obvious" questions. So, instead of saying i have a "stupid" question, i like to go about saying i have an "obvious" question. Because if you really THINK about it...."stupid" questions are, for the most part, obvious! haha almost 99% of the time peoples "stupid" questions are easily answered! am i right?! ;)

So, i've been thinking....and i came up with a bunch of questions!...here are a few of them:

statement- In Leviticus 23:3 it says "Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of SOLEMN REST, a holy convocation. You shall do NO WORK. it is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwelling places."

my question- How do we apply this verse to modern day society?? How do we obey this the "right" way?? If there is such a thing. Are we sinning if we go out to eat after church? Or if we are doing school projects?? hmmmmm?....

statement- In Leviticus 24:17-22 it says "Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death. Whoever takes an animal's life shall make it good, life for life. If anyone injures his neighbor, as he has done it shall be done to him, fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever injury he has given a person shall be given to him. Whoever kills a person shall be put to death."

my question- well, first of all....intense! i know! but thats coming straight out of the Bible itself! So my Q is, once again, how do we apply all that to the modern world?? When someone kills someone they either go to jail for a long time or depending on how bad the case was, they may get the electric chair!....is THAT Biblical???? hmmmm?....

statement- In Leviticus 25:35-38 it says "If your brother becomes poor and can not maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you. Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you. You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit. I am the Lord you God, who brought you our of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God."

my question- Annnd for the last time...how do we apply THIS to our daily lives??? In this crazy, messed up, deformed, mad, mad, mad, modern world....there are a hand full of people out there lending a hand! Who are actually doing something about this huge mess! then there are those...who could care less...they're just sitting there, in their homes, in their pj's, watching their "grass"....aka...their lives, their opportunities, their world slooooowly crumble up by the big mean bullies also commonly called our government take over and rule the "playground".
...but i'm talking about the ones who are helping out, supporting the discouraged, lending a loving, helping hand to the poor and needy....

I guess there is not really one way of doing something. There's really no "good and perfect" way of going about following the Bible. I've been having major mental battles go on in my small skull for the past week about these verses! and still am! ugggh!!.....theres not really ONE answer....is there?? i don't know! does anyone truly know!? I'm pretty sure not one person living on this crazy, mad, deformed world can give me or anyone with similar questions the "right" answer to these.

but it would be nice to see what you guys THINK! :)

<3 super confused <3