Always look on the bright side of life

So I started with a blog post a while ago and for whatever reason I never finished it. It said this "Life sucks! Sometimes I really just feel like giving up on life. Nothing seems to be going my way at all. I can't find a job. I am fighting with people a lot. I feel betrayed and unwanted by many people that were once close to me and life just sucks. I was sitting along in my room moping tonight when I decided i should probably do my devotions and read Hebrews 13 (finally done with that book its taken my over a month!) In verses five and six the author of hebrews" kind of a cliffhanger ending. Right? I looked up those verses again and they talk about God never leaving us and that through him we can do anything. I was having very similar feelings today as the day I started the old post. I have a job now but I don't really like it. And I am still extremely tight on money. All of my cars have something wrong with them and everything just seems to pile up. Is at this time they got can seem so distant. Sometimes the words "I will never leave you or for sake you" seem to me nothing, but these are the times that they have to mean everything to us. Somehow my cars or at least still running. So how my bank account is still in the green. Somehow I actually have a job. That is all thanks to Jesus. I was talking to my sister Rebecca the other day and she was saying she didn't feel well and that she had laid in bed all day feeling sick and my response was "at least you have a bed to feel sick in". So often I find myself focusing on the negative parts of life and ignoring all the many positive aspects. If you're always looking down you will never see the sun. So I am challenging myself and also challenging anyone who is reading this to "Always look on the bright side of life" (I apologize if you have that song in your head for the rest of the day.) you will never accomplish great things if you're always focusing on how ungreat you are now. As always if you want someone to talk to you my email is available or you can comment on this post. I know sometimes all you need is an ear to hear your problems and then they feel better so I'm always here for that purpose or more personalized advice. Have a great day!

David Fite

Where are you going?

So within the past few weeks between meetings with my pastor, books I am reading, and sermons I am listening to a certain theme seems to be coming up. "Where are you going?" This is the question that God asks Hagar in Genesis 16.  He says "where have you come from? and Where are you going?" I believe this is a question that we should all ask ourselves. Where are you today? Where is that in comparison to where you were yesterday? Where do you plan to be tomorrow? We all have the opportunity to change our future, but that starts with changing how we live today., If we keep living life the same way then it will never change. There is a sign in the gym where I work and it says "There are seven days in a week. Someday is not one of them." If we want to be better people, better fathers, better wives, and better children then the process starts with what we do today. My youth pastor likes to say "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" We can say we are trying to change. We can say we are going to quit smoking or start reading our bibles more, but we never will unless we start right now. We sit around moping that we need to change begging God to help us when He is actually just begging us to try. The Devotionals Daily's excerpt had a very good paragraph in it today. It went like this

"But please don’t leave it there. Don’t allow your ache to remain merely an ache. Remember the truth, and allow that truth to seep into your troubled mind so that your ache might begin its transformation into something sacred. Remember what David whispered to God, after yet another near-death escape?

'You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in Your bottle. You have recorded each one in Your book.' - Psalm 56:8"-Sheila Walsh

This world will never change unless the people in it decide to change. "If everyone did half as much work as they expected everyone else to do, this world would be a much better place." Don't wait for tomorrow. Don't wait for someone else to do it. Just do it. Pick up your bible. Go visit your neighbor. Throw away those cigarettes. Wake up on Sunday. Do your best at work. Be nice to those around you and together we can change our future. We can answer the question "Where are you going?" with "to a better place" and we will be the ones making that true.

Fixing things

So today's post has no biblical backing, but it is something that I have finally figured out and I will do my best to change. My whole life has been a roller coaster. Constant ups and downs have plagued my life and every time I hit a down I push God away. When I push God away I never want to read my bible or pray. I justified that by saying I wasn't right with God therefore reading my bible would be disrespectful. This was 100% wrong. When you are feeling down or far away from God, the best and only choice is to pray or read or go to church. You can not fix a relationship by yourself. Talk to God. Tell him what is wrong and he will help you. Trust me. It's a good plan. As always if you want someone to talk to my email is always open for you. Keep in the word. Spread the word. Live the word. 

Your friend. 

David

Faith

I have just finished reading Hebrews 11 and the prestigious "Hall of Faith". This passage mixed with this mornings sermon at my church has really shown me the importance of faith. The thing that I have always struggled with is the fact that God does not always earn faith. He does not always show himself as trustworthy. If we do not look at life in the right way we will never find true faith. It says towards the end of the chapter "All these people are known for their faith, but none of them received what God had promised." (Verse 39) Everyone in this Hall of Faith gave everything they had to God even when they couldn't see him and even when his promises were invisible. Abraham never saw a nation come from his descendants, but he trusted God to come through, and He did. Earlier in the chapter in verse six it says "Without faith, no one can please God." That's one that really hit home with me. I have always had a lack of faith. Not many answered prayers in my childhood caused me to continuously question whether God would actually come through for me, but this verse states that without faith we can not please God. Without faith we can do nothing. So if right now you are trying your best to be a good christian or a good person, but you are still questioning God's ability to pull through for you, stop your ministry, stop trying to please Him and get right with God. Take a moment and just ask Him to help you to trust Him more. It's worth it. I will be working on this myself in the next few weeks and probably the rest of my life. I know I don't have many readers yet, but for those of you that are reading this and struggling with faith, my email is always open for prayer requests or if you need someone to talk to. I want to walk through this journey with you guys. Stay in prayer. Stay in the word. Stay faithful. Love always.

Your friend,
David

New books!!!

Today while I was doing my  errands I stopped at a great store in the town my fiancee lives in. This store is called The Connection Point and it is a great little christian book store that sells all sorts of books. I wasn't really looking for anything in particular but as I was wandering around two books stood out to me. One of them was Radical by David Platt and the other was Crazy Love by Francis Chan. I am really excited to begin reading these books and I will be sure to add comments from them and a full review when I am finished.

http://crazylovebook.com/
http://www.radicalthebook.com/home.html

Pilot

Hello world! My name is David Fite and I am a crazy 18 year old college student who is engaged to the most beautiful girl on this planet. I am starting this blog to share some of things that I learn as I read through the bible and live life. Small verses can change your life and many of them I've never read before or never really understood. So please follow me in this journey of discovering God on a more personal level than I ever have before.