Mythbuster Jones

FALSE ADVERTISING!!! About 2 weeks ago, Jodi and I were stranded at Walmart in Cranberry. We had traveled to a grad party in Pittsburgh via motorcycle, and had to wait there until the rain stopped. Anyway, while waiting, we became quite familiar with each of their departments.

While perusing the women's clothing area with Jodi, I came across a BIG FAT LIE!!! They had an entire rack with blouses bearing a sticker that claimed, "INSTANTLY SLIMS YOU."

In true Mythbuster fashion, I just HAD to challenge that claim! As you can see, I neither became slimmer, nor even APPEAR slimmer, as the blouse claimed. As a matter of fact, I still felt bloated from the many chips and salsa I had eaten earlier. Therefore, MYTH: BUSTED!!!

A lot of things in life don't ever live up to the hype that surrounds them. Television, the internet, and everywhere else we seem to look advertises and promotes new products that make clames to "change our lives," but never seem to satisfy. I wish getting slimmer was as simple as putting on a shirt, I wish getting in shape was as easy as ordering the Bowflex, and I wish getting the iPhone would be the last gadget/phone I would ever want! (Evidently even those who have the original iPhone loved it, but couldn't wait for the NEWER & BETTER one to come out!)

I find that my walk with God is many times the same way! I want to see growth just "happen." Sometimes, it's way easer to be content to just go to church, "doing my time," instead of really investing myself there. Just like that shirt truly lacks the power to change my girth, and leaves me with the task of discipline and eating right to lose the weight, so also my spiritual growth requires discipline and investment beyond just "showing up" at church.

In Jim Cymbala's book, "Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire," he states, "The history of past revivals portray this truth (that spiritual revival is dependent on us doing the work of calling on Him to pour out His Spirit on us,) in full color. Whether you study the Great Awakening, the Second Great Awakening, or the Welsh Revival, the 1906 outpouring on Azusa Street in Los angeles, or any other period of revival, you always find men and women who first inwardly groan, longing to see the status quo changed --in themselves and in their churches. They begin to call on God with insistence; prayer begets revival, which begets more prayer."

God makes this promise to us in Jeremiah 33:3 (NIV), "Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know."

What a promise! That God wants us to call on Him, and that He promises to answer us! He has such amazing things in store for us, things we have no idea of yet. What's more is that I know that when promises come from God, there is never a "myth" to bust....only truth!

I want to see God do so much in my life! I want to see him at work when we pray...not just here and there, but all of the time! I know God is calling me to grow in my prayer life, and I anticipate Him doing GREAT THINGS in the future! Whatever you have for my life God, I want it! Bring it on!