Everybody’s Workin For The Weekend

We all know the song right?…..”Everybody’s working for the weekend”. And we all know the sayings like, “Looks like somebody has a case of the Monday’s”. There are several more sayings and what not that apply to where I am heading with this. But I think those two will suffice.

I have noticed a lot of people’s facebook status’ (not calling anybody out, I’m sure I have even done this) at the beginning of the week or during the week that refer to the sadness of the start of the week, or how they are looking forward to the weekend, or can’t wait for the weekend. I thought about what a bummer that is to live like that. Yea it happens to the best of us, and yea I do enjoy the weekends because I usually do not have to work or go to school. But to always be looking forward to the two days on the end of the week is sad. That is five days out the week that you dread and probably don’t take advantage of. What a waste of a life that is. It just saddens me because that is the culture that we fight to not be like. Culture tells us to grit our teeth and just make it through the week to get to those two days at the end. Ok, just think about this. If the good Lord allows you to live to be 70 you would have lived 25,550 days, give or take a few bc of leap years.  And there are about 260 weekdays in any given year, and only about 104 weekend days in a year. 18,200 weekdays in your life if you lived to be 70, and 7,280 weekend days in your life if you lived that long. So 71% of our life would have been weekdays and 29% weekends. So if everybody is really working for the weekend, then everybody is really only living 29% of their life and neglecting the other 71%.

Let us take advantage of the days that the Lord has given us, the weekdays are just as good of days as the weekends. Live each day with the same amount of freedom that you live with on your weekends. I know that I dont want to be caught up in the working for the weekend trend that most people get caught up in. That is not the way we were intended to live, and it is not that way that I am going to live. One of my goal/prayers recently has been that I could live each day with the same amount of joy and (for lack of better word) intensity. Always looking to seize the moments I have been given, no matter if it is a Monday or and Friday. I challenge you to do the same as well.

“This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it” Psalm 118:24

The Middle East

Over the last 5 months or so I have taken quite the interest in the Middle East. Anything to do with it, the history of it, whats going on today and how it matters to us. After all it is where everything began, and is the center of most of the happenings in the Bible, so it had to be somewhat important.

I think what sparked my interest in the Middle East was my beginning to become more involved with prophecy and end times happenings, and there were just a lot of prophecy that has to do with things in the Mid East and more specifically, Israel. I then got suggested an author to read by one of my great friends Garrett, who had been becoming increasingly interested in the same thing I had. He suggested I read some stuff of Joel Rosenburg. So I began to read the books “Epicenter” and “Inside the Revolution”. Before Rosenburg wrote these to non-fiction books, he wrote a series of political thrillers, starting with “The Last Jihad”. In this series he based his writings on prophecy from Ezekiel 38-39.  Strangely enough a lot of stuff was happening in his books that was happening after he had wrote it. Such as the opening scene from “The Last Jihad” is two planes crashing into American buildings in an act of terrorism. “The Last Jihad” was published some time before the events of 9-11, at least 6 months I believe. But as I have read both of his books I have began to learn a lot about the Middle East. There are so many prophetic things come true that it is crazy really. Like in Eziekel it talks about how Russia and Iran will come together against Israel, and looks like it is coming true. It talks about how Israel will become united again and establish itself, which happened a good while ago. One that I just came across in reading “Epicenter” I found very interesting. There is prophecy in the Bible that says Israel will be given great gifts of the depths (oil?). Now Israel had never been known to be a place that had a huge surplus of oil at all. But over the past years there have been huge findings of oil in Israel, in fact I believe I read that it was there may be some of the biggest findings of oil that have ever been found in Israel (which is prophesied that Israel will have great great prosperity in the last days). Even crazier is that these findings have been found in the Valley of Megiddo, which if you don’t know is where the battle of Armageddon is supposed to take place. Somebody in Rosenburgs book asks, what could Israel possess in the last days that would make it such a prize for conquest that world’s armies would meet there to fight the spoils? …..perhaps the one of the greatest oil deposits ever found?

Those are just a few of the things that have interested in my pursuit of knowledge of what is going on in the Middle East. Rosenburg also gets into Islam and the difference in the radicals and the reformers, which is also very interesting. There is just so much more going on, I can’t even begin to get into it all, nor am I anywhere close to understanding it all. I think that everybody should take an interest and try to gain an understanding to what is going on over there. If anything just so you understand what is going on in the world. God is doing some stuff I believe, and I think we should all be paying attention to what is going on outside of our little worlds. Check out Joel Rosenburg’s blog at http://flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com/