Folded Steel
What do fishermen, pro
wrestlers, musicians, bloggers, and writers all have in common? A Hook.
I’m about to give you the hook in the form of a question. See the hook is meant to draw the participant
of the blog in and get their attention.
Have you ever seen a Japanese Katanna being made? For those who just gave me the confused
Scooby Doo look it’s a sword. There’s a
movie called Highlander The Final Dimension and actors Mako and Christopher
Lambert take the watcher through the art of sword making. It requires a blacksmith with hammers, metal
tongs, intense heat, troughs of water and sheets of metal. The metal gets hammered, formed, heated, and
folded layer by layer to make the sword the right shape, balance and
weight. Our lives, the things we go
through, how we react, change learn and grow as a person is much like a sword
being fashioned by a master for a purpose.
As you mature into an adult you begin to see patterns of decisions from
your youth and how they have shaped you.
King David is a good example of this. Scrawny shepherd boy learned to lead sheep
and defend against bears and lions then giants.
Then he became a king and a mighty warrior. Through his trials and problems, he wrote the
Psalms and became a Man after God’s Own Heart.
When I was younger, I had a desire to be a Christian Counselor for
teenagers. I spent time with several youth
leaders. I also took courses on the
ministry of the pastor and introduction to the New Testament. I’m a huge comic book fan. I even took classes to almost be an x-ray
technician. I have experience in 14
years of call center work and I’m going on my 4th year as a security
guard. I have a hero’s compulsion. I try to help people and solve problems when
I can. Like a sword; mine and David’s
desires and choices have shaped us. I
have a strong desire to help people and it wasn’t till years later that this
blog thing would even happen. If you
trust God and seek him, he will find ways to shape you like an artist forming a
sword. I have a friend who is an amazing
painter and God uses Jason’s artwork to point others to God. He teaches Biblical lessons with his
paintings.
Psalm 37:4
“Take delight in the
Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.”
A few years ago I
prayed asking God to be glorified in my fictional stories along with the
Batcave blog. I want the things I do and
say to please God.
Matthew 6:33
“But seek first the Kingdom
of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto
you.”
Galatians 2:20
“I have been crucified
with Christ and I no longer live but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by
faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
Philippians 1:6
“Being confident of
this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until
the day of Christ Jesus.”
Romans 12:1-2
“Therefore, I urge
you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living
sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of
worship. Do not conform any longer to
the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve
what God’s will is—his pleasing and perfect will.”
God can use you and
shape you if you are willing. If you
participated in this blog and saw only Zac you missed the whole point because
I’m simply a person that God is at work on.
He is the important one not me.
You should seek to glorify God in your mortal body and let Him craft you
into the person you are supposed to be.
The hunger stays by Margaret Becker
This is my Passion by Margaret Becker
Seed to Sow by Michael W Smith
He who began a good work by Steve Green
Let the Kingdom come by Whiteheart
Hearts Cry by Steven Curtis Chapman
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